This one gratefully received too.
Rich
On 13 Apr 2009, at 22:04, Wolfgang Jahn wrote:
This is great, and it reminds me of one of my favorite short films
of all time, also French and also shows a drive through Paris at
daybreak (still night at beginning) but it’s much slower paced and
poetic in mood, and it’s also from 1978!
LES MAINS NEGATIVES by Nouvelle Roman-autheur and filmmaker
Marguerite Duras .
I checked and it’s also on youtube, sadly in 2 parts, and for an
English translation of the voice-over click upper right on more info
from the user who posted it, where you see the first lines already,
and read along then with the vid. running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPEtD3lr6Fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-N_kbPTsPk
This is a haunting poetic masterpiece in my humble opinion, the
title by the way and some lines of the voice-over, besides being a
universal ode to love, refer to the Magdalen Caves in the south of
France, where the oldest known human expressions of art (maybe in
Europe from what I remember having read about them) are to be found:
3500 + years old engravings and negative images of colored hands,
facing the ocean from a cave.
Now I wonder if the Lelouch film was a reaction to this, or vice
versa…
Wolfgang
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P Molitor
Gesendet: Montag, 13. April 2009 17:12
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [MOPO] Lelouch short film
This is a great film for gear heads (and must be truly seen on the
big screen for maximum lubrication values) but there is fakery afoot.
Lelouch finally admitted that this was actually filmed from the
bumper of a Mercedes 6.9 (a fine machine in and of itself) and the
soundtrack is the only thing Ferrari about it. Nowhere in it does
he come anywhere near to going over 100mph. If you watch carefully
keeping in mind the gear changes that are being made and knowing
what speed a wrapped out Ferarri would be making those gear changes
at it's clear that what's being shown has no bearing on what's being
heard. There's one section where he's topping out 4th gear yet he's
in one of those tiny Parisian streets - that would put him well over
100mph+, simply impossible to do. Also as he's driving down the
road just before the making the turn at the Louvre he's in high
gears but passing cars "only" doing maybe 30mph over them - if that
were truly the gear he was in you'd barely be able see them go by.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE this, watch it regularly and have even
figured out the route using Google Earth so the next time I'm in
Paris with a car I can follow it (at legal speeds of course). It is
truly the "magic" of filmmaking though. Just hearing those Ferrari
gear changes is worth the price of admission.
--Peter
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, McDaniel Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:
From: McDaniel Kirby <[email protected]>
Subject: [MOPO] Lelouch short film
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 8:36 PM
A friend sent me this. I have never seen it before.
Kirby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHrCLt3Geo
On an
August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch
mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari
275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer,
drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris early in
the morning . The film was limited for technical reasons to
10 minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine , through the
Louvre, to the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a
permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes,
reaching nearly 140 MPH in some stretches. The footage
reveals him running real red lights, nearly hitting real
pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real one-way
streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch
was arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the
driver, and the film went underground.
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