Toss 'em Up between....
It's been an arduous mental journey, and two road films remain fighting tooth and nail for the position of my favorite road films. These two are Djibril Diop Mambety's Touki Bouki http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070820/and George Miller and George Ogilive's Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdomehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089530/. Both films capture to me an essence of reality and imagination that the roads offer to marginalized people. The avant garde camera work and editing of Touki Bouki hails Eisenstein and Truffaut, but the films perpetual sense of humor, mystery, and despair add up to more than either of those directors could do. Whilst Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome has Tina Turner playing the queen of the Thunderdome, Aunt Entity. Christ, what other movie has a Thunderdome in it. Seriously though, the Mad Max movies rule for so many reasons not the least of which is the way they capture the hostility of the road, and their sweet costume design.
Tina Turner music video.