Two-Lane Blacktop at 50 (years, not miles)

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Two-Lane Blacktop at 50 (years, not miles)

A half-century on, we look at the fast and furious American arthouse car flick that became, against all odds, a landmark of independent cinema.

Filmmaker of the Month

Inside the ambitious failure of Coppola’s “One from the Heart”

How Francis Ford Coppola's visually stunning romance set out to change studio filmmaking forever -- and crashed and burned along the way.

Anniversaries

“Stab It And Steer!”: “Wild at Heart” at 30

David Lynch's 1990 thriller remains a scintillating, if inessential, piece of the filmmaker's gonzo catalog.

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