In this controversial and acclaimed story of drag-racing drifters, the drivers of a Pontiac GTO and a '55 Chevy fight an obsessive battle across the back roads of America for possession of each other's 'pinks' and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker. Dominating this hypnotic existential journey is Warren Oates as the obsessive ‘GTO', with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (in their first and only acting roles) his rivals for both car and woman. "Two-Lane Blacktop" is an existentialist 6 find out more...

Pissed off rebel Kowalski accepts a challenge to drive from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. Fired up by a tankful of gas in his 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with its 4-speed manual transmission, Hurst "pistol grip" shifter and controlling a 4 barrel/440 cubic inch "Magnum" V-8 engine, he begins his solitary odyssey, spurred on by a blind black DJ, Super Soul, to become 'the last American hero'. Kowalski gathers a following amongst counterculture denizens, bikers and hippies flock to KOW radio find out more...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko, played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine, who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern post-war Ginza district. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. A profoundly moving masterpiece. find out more...