Sylvia Townsend, Los Angeles, California, became interested in films in the late 1960s. She worked as an intern at the Hollywood Reporter, then as a journalist and grant writer, and now she writes about film. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, from the Los Angeles Times to World Cinema Paradise.
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A revealing, insightful, and very full account of how Monte Hellman's most respected film--Two-Lane Blacktop--came into being and then over time earned an important place in the history of American cinema.--Norris Pope, author of Chronicle of a Camera: The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972 Sylvia Townsend had the advantage of access to an extensive repository of documents regarding the making of Two-Lane Blacktop, as well as gathering new insights on the topic by conducting many interviews with participants involved at different stages with this film project. As such, Bumpy Road provides a useful guide to not only the genesis, release, and afterlife of Two-Lane Blacktop, but a dimensional study of independent filmmaker Monte Hellman.--James Robert Parish, coauthor of The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era