On the morning of February 28, 2020, the T-Boy Society of Film & Music met in Studio City, CA for the final vote on our top 20 Road Movies of all-time. It was one of those beautiful Southern California mornings where the sun was out, the air was fresh with just a hint of dampness on the world-famous Los Angeles River ‘s concrete riverbed.
Couples-on-the-run films are now a sub-genre in Road Movies. They range from the film noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy to Jean-Luc Godard’s existentialism in Pierrot le Fou and the anarchic Weekend, where a traffic jam represents the approaching cataclysm that will destroy civilization. Rather timely today.
T-Boy Society of Film & Music member’s lists of their top road movies.