Road to Nowhere
United States
2010
121 Min
Color
1.77:1
English
Synopsis
A young filmmaker becomes obsessed with a true crime story and with the femme fatale at the center of the tale. When he begins to make a film about the case on location in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he discovers that nothing in the story is true, that the girl he cast is not who she appears to be and that he himself may be in great jeopardy. –SXSW
Director
Monte Hellman
Monte Hellman (born July 12, 1932, in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, and film editor.
Hellman is among a group of directing talent mentored by Roger Corman, who produced several of the director’s early films. Hellman’s most critically acclaimed film to date has been Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), a road movie that was a box office failure at the time of its initial release but has subsequently turned into a perennial cult favorite.1 Hellman’s two acid westerns starring Jack Nicholson, Ride in the Whirlwind and The Shooting, both shot in 1965 and released directly to television in 1968, have also developed cult followings, particularly the latter. A third western, China 9, Liberty 37 (1978), was far less successful critically, although it too has its admirers, as do Cockfighter (1974) (aka Born to Kill) and Iguana (1988). In 1989 he directed the straight-to-video slasher film Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch… read more
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Konrad Szlendak
20Jun12
It's hard for me to believe, that Hellman actually made this piece. I love his 60's and 70's works, but this reads like a cross of "Lost Higway" and "The Stuntman", without an edge unfortunately. Script is boring and actors are unconvincing, plot is too elaborate to keep the mood, which is sliding down rapidly in the second half... another example it's hard to make a good comeback after what's been done in the past.
Cani
4Apr12
It all started lightheartedly with Day for Night. Yanagimachi turned it into a haunting masterpiece with Who’s Camus Anyway. Hellman in turn has made a complex film that expands on both films and addresses itself to posterity through a digital camera. Hellman’s best film since Cockfighter.
Gran-Hoff
14Mar12
Oh, that sequence with Sossamon drying her nails... This film is not only beatiful, but a very interesting reflection on the current state of cinema. A film to be seen much more than once and preferably on the big screen.
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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on June 11, 2011
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By David Hudson on June 8, 2011
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By David Hudson on September 13, 2010
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Abîme à deux voies
By Theolini on April 30, 2011
Sublime contemplation du cinéma par lui-même, le film de Monte Hellman est empreint d’une mélancolie passionnée dont ressort une vive émotion essentielle : le cinéma lui a coûté la vie.
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