This thread is a shameless plug for a gig but I thought it would make a good topic for a thread also. Read the plug then nominate your favourite road movie ever.
ROAD TO NOWHERE
Road to nowhere is an evening of aural textures and vast soundscapes at Glitch Bar & Cinema on Saturday 6th December. ** Disgracelands**, Margins, Waver and Impulse/Control will be performing, accompanied by classic road movies on the big screen. Bar opens at 6.30pm, bands at 8.30pm.
My favourite road movie is Backroads starring Bill Hunter & Gary Foley. What's yours?
gonna go with wild at heart
Fuck Wild at heart. Fuck it sideways. Stupidest lame arse piece of shit wannabe road movie ever.
Badlands is a corker. Dudes?
Crossroads
Dudes
Week End
Nothing like a bot of murder and cannibalism to spice up an otherwise tedious voyage.
*bit
easy rider
five easy pieces
Love Two Lane Blacktop!
I recently bought a copy of badlands for $5. haven't had a chance to sit down an watch it yet though.
easy Rider is a decent road movie - but for me it doesn't come anywhere near the perfection of Two Lane Blacktop.
the second half of death proof
cannonball run
i just received a request from margins drummer dude that we play with two lane blacktop behind us. thanks in advance
bring me the head of alfredo garcia
i've never seen that QM. Is it good? I've wanted to see it.
uhh vanishing point..
how can you say the second half of death proof? and not vanishing point?
I liked it.
DUEL
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MtAMc4i8OA]
bitchin...
DUEL
white lightning
dirty mary crazy larry
thieves' highway
wages of fear
those last two are road movies in the loosest sense of the term.
christine
The Passenger
i thought you were talking about the nick cave and the bad seeds doco...
summer city
high rolling
roadside prophets
Thelma and Louise
Two lane Blacktop
i got two lane black top out this week. the movie reel on high street has a road movies section. looking forward to the movie.
Can we count Repo Man as a road movie?
Greatest Two Lane Blacktop Quote -
''IM NOT INTO THAT!''
''I thought Id just - y'know - relax ya while ya drive''
''This is competition, son. I got no time to relax.''
why not
Two Lane Blacktop
Wages of Fear
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Stranger than Paradise
Down By Law
The Grapes of Wrath
I got to watch Two Lane Blacktop at in an empty cinema at ACMI on my birthday a couple of years ago.
I mean... print check it. Yeah it was a print check.
Two lane blacktop is yours, dude. It's in my local video shop. I think we'll go with Duel, Badlands and maybe the Wim Wenders' road movie. Thanks for all the ideas. Wages of fear would be cool too.
pee wee's big adventure
dumb & dumber
Dman, questionmark has already named all of mine!
medman - Five Easy Pieces is great. Some weeks I rank it as my favourite movie.
really Dan? cool - i will have to find it and watch it!
Bump...
I don't know if it's the best ever as I haven't watched it yet (and I'm pretty sure it isn't) - but I have a DVD of Chistopher Petit's Radio On sitting on my desk awaiting 2 spare hours - a rare example of the British road movie. Music from Bowie, Kraftwerk, Fripp, Devo, Ian Dury...
paris, texas
Convoy
what are the wim wenders road movies like?
definitely see thieves' highway if you like wages of fear.
has anyone seen the wages of fear 70s remake? it's call the sorcerer or something.
so.....anybody going to the show thingo on sat?
i've seen sorcerer - at a screening introduced by william friedkin no less - it's pretty turgid yet strangely satisfying, in a 70s kind of way
i liked alice in the cities & kings of the road when i saw them ages ago
Yeah I'm keen to check out Sorcerer as I always enjoy William Friedkin's films (even when they're not very good). I know it's sacrilege to say so but I always found Wages of Fear a bit on the dull side.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are going to make a sci fi road trip movie!