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DVD Le Mans
A classic auto-racing movie starring Steve McQueen, Le Mans puts the audience in the driver's seat for what is often called the most grueling race in the world. The French auto race Le Mans is a 24-hour affair through the French countryside, a demanding ordeal for any driver. McQueen (Bullitt, The Great Escape) plays the American driver, locked in an intense grudge match with his German counterpart even as he wrestles with the guilt over causing an accident that cost the life of a close friend. McQueen is his usual stoic magnetic self, and the racing sequences are among the best ever committed to film. A solid character-driven story combines with raw visceral power to make Le Mans a rich tapestry of action and thrills. --Robert Lane
Good racing film. Not very deep on story. Gives a really good feel for the atmosphere of that kind of racing venue. Fine attention to the nuts
and bolts of that event.
Best Auto Racing film of the 20th century
So the title leaves room for 'contenders' to come up with a 'best racing film of the 21st century'. IMHO, SPEED channel has all the makings of a team that could pull it off. (under a partnership deal with a 'smart' studio, that doesn't want to overplay the plot -- just stick to the 'formula' [sic] that worked for Steve McQueen ...) All they need to do is get Michael Schumacher to 'come out of retirement' and shoot a film sanctioned by F1, that shadows Michael on his way to his 'final'-- record setting championship season of 2004 --- exposing the 'drama and emotions' that surrounded this history making season for Ferrari and Michael. Really, who needs more of a plot than that?
More action than plot, and that's a good thing.
Somewhere in this movie, there is supposed to be a romantic subplot. Well, McQueen wanted to make a movie that showed all the grit of LeMans for the entire race, and in my estimate, he won out over the studios. The action is in-your-face, and shows just what goes into this sort of racing. Thankfully, the love story subplot is mostly lost, making for a pleasant viewing experience for the racing enthusiast.
Light on story, this 1966 spectacle directed by John Frankenheimer was shot in 70 millimeter, with a cinematically enthralling emphasis on unique, visceral new ways of capturing the sensations of a car race. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune are part of the stellar, international cast whose characters plod through assorted relationship and business conflicts. But the film's real hook is the thrilling and inventive means by which Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) brings an urgency to the drama happening on the racetrack. A true master of the plastic techniques of obtaining and cutting kinetic footage, Frankenheimer offers more than a joyride to viewers: he makes action part of the compelling language of stories. Cameras are strapped to vehicles... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Frankenheimer DVD Release Date: Released the 11 July 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Paul Newman plays a racecar driver, Frank Capua, who steps out of his professional and personal isolation long enough to marry a single mother, Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two have a brief but happy life together with Elora's 13-year-old son, Charley (Richard Thomas), but it comes to an end when Frank goes back on the racing circuit and Elora assuages her loneliness in the arms of her husband's chief rival, Luther (Robert Wagner). Frank checks out, and Charley travels across the country to find him and effect a reconciliation. A touching movie (with some good racing footage) by director James Goldstone, Winning is about the real pain of people who have become used to a certain way of safe, arm's-length living, and who have to learn to get beyond it to find redemption in... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Paul Newman - Joanne Woodward Director(s): James Goldstone DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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San Francisco has been the setting of a lot of exciting movie car chases over the years, but this 1968 police thriller is still the one to beat when it comes to high-octane action on the steep hills of the city by the Bay. The outstanding car chase earned an Oscar for best editing, but the rest of the movie is pretty good, too. Bullitt is a perfect star vehicle for cool guy Steve McQueen, who stars as a tenacious detective (is there any other kind?) determined to track down the killers of the star witness in an important trial. Director Peter Yates (Breaking Away) approached the story with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, using a variety of San Francisco locations. Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Duvall appear in early roles, and Robert Vaughn plays the criminal kingpin... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Steve McQueen - Robert Vaughn - Jacqueline Bisset Director(s): Peter Yates DVD Release Date: Released the 31 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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An impressive visual encyclopedia, The World's Greatest F1 Cars covers the first 50 years of Formula One racing. The DVD begins with the stories of the Bugatti T51 and the Delage GP, which were basically stripped-down sports cars. Grand Prix aficionados will be thrilled with the detailed footage and narration on 103 cars ranging from early models like the Alfa Romeo 158, in which Giuseppe "Nino" Farina roared to the first F1 world title, to the Lotus 72 Ford (1970), which was the first car to try to achieve better aerodynamic downforce through body design, to the modern Ferrari 1996-2000. The DVD can be watched as a whole or can be broken down car by car. Also included is a "Classic F1 Experience" in which you race along via a camera mounted above the driver's helmet. The... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 29 January 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Basically what you have here is a short and not all that informative film on the making of "Grand Prix" followed by two biographies which consisted mainly of a bunch of theactrical trailers and narration. The racing documentaries at the end were old newsreel clips.
I can't believe that anyone thought this was a worthy product. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 23 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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