Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any ...

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Bowling Green, KY. - This year marks the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of the 1971 cult classic Two-Lane Blacktop, starring singer James Taylor and Beach Boy Dennis Wilson. One of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monte Hellman, the maverick director of such films as “Two-Lane Blacktop,” “The Shooting” and “Road to Nowhere,” died April 20 at ...

1971 was a great year for the American road trip. Brock Yates and Dan Gurney successfully raced from New York to Los Angles in a day and a half, and cinema saw the release of three cult classic road ...

Q: Greg, you did a column awhile ago on the “Two Lane Blacktop” ’55 Chevy and that it was the same one they used in “American Graffiti.” Can you give me that info again and even more if you have it?

At the very least, Two-Lane Blacktop is considered a "cult classic" and at most, the "greatest road movie ever made." Most car nuts probably place it closer to the latter than the former on their ...

He also helmed 'The Shooting' and 'Ride in the Whirlwind,' two sparse Westerns starring a young Jack Nicholson. By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Monte Hellman, the maverick director and protege of Roger ...

The late American indie film auteur Monte Hellman was fond of a quote from Jean Cocteau that poetically summed up the fate of any real work of art: “A work of art should also be ‘an object difficult ...

Influential director Monte Hellman, whose 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson became a counterculture cult classic, died Tuesday. He was 91. His death at ...