Car movies remind us of all the things that can happen when we turn the key.
They’re great films, period, and Criterion appropriately honors their elusive, pared, and despairingly and misleadingly plain-spoken brilliance.
Raro’s excellent A/V transfer resuscitates a forgotten gem of 1980s cinema, an interpretive horror film from an unpredictable filmmaker.
The characters’ aimless, gear-head addictions define the joyless but dutiful—almost Catholic—tone throughout.
Hellman has led a long cinematic career that could mirror the winding journeys of the characters in his films.
Road to Nowhere is a tribute to the artifice and the rawness of cinema.
The script is busy and unconvincing, and much of the acting is lousy, but there are haunting touches.
Cult director Monte Hellman lets the motors do the talking in Two-Lane Blacktop.
The Shooting pays obvious homage to the classic westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks.