Hello everyone,sorry forgot to post this in the updates-I am screening a few
films with Sonic Circuits this Saturday night at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver
Spring, Md--The link is
Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical
studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been
imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of
films that you think might be useful to explore/expand this idea and
readings that
Harrod Blank's films about car art. Su Friedrich's Rules of the Road. Some of
the Jam Handy industrial films made for Chevrolet in the 1950's have been
called Corporate Surrealism, the ones I know that best fit this description
are Hall of Wonders and You're Ahead, Mr. X. Also the Jam Handy
The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road movies in
Hollywood.
There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment)
which includes tearing a car apart in a dispute.
Not about film, per se, but in the 1920s the expansion of relatively
The LH in question is Big Business. Deconstruction indeed.
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Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans
chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote:
The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream of road
movies in Hollywood.
There's a famous Laurel and Hardy film (whose name I forget at the moment)
which includes
The two reeler where LH destroy Jim Finlayson's automobile (because he won't
buy a Christmas tree) is Big Business.
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There¹s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of you
will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and gets
reassembled something like that. Pretty vague, but at the same time, I¹m
sure someone will know of what I speak.
On 12/14/12 1:49 PM, David
Two Lane Blacktop is essential.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote:
There’s very early silent, totally blanking on it right now but one of
you will know, which a man and car blowing up, and the man is in pieces and
gets reassembled – something like that.
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com:
Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical
studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been
imagined in cinema. To this end I'd love to hear from ya'll with titles of
films that you think might be
And Death Race 2000.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote:
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com:
Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments of developing a critical
studies course that looks at different ways the automobile has been
imagined in
David Cronenberg's CRASH.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Ronald Gregg ronald.gr...@yale.edu wrote:
And Death Race 2000.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper f...@fredcamper.com wrote:
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com:
Hello Frameworkers - I am in the early moments
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) and Vanishing Point cannot be overlooked here.
Also, The Car of Your Dreams is a wonderfully crazy compilation of car
commercials, it's probably on Youtube and was fairly common to find 16mm
prints of also - had a few pass through my hands.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:38
Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not
US), 1978.
P
And Death Race 2000.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper
f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote:
Quoting Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.commailto:bkonef...@gmail.com:
Hello
Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988.
P
Fergus Walking (part 2 in the 3 part Autumn Scenes) – William Raban, UK (not
US), 1978.
P
And Death Race 2000.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Fred Camper
f...@fredcamper.commailto:f...@fredcamper.com wrote:
Quoting Bryan Konefsky
Another one on which I¹m forgetting the title. French, short, 1970s, about
10 minutes. Man gets in sports car, races at seemingly high speeds through
Paris city streets, much POV through car window, ending at a meeting with a
a woman ah, yes, ³Rendezvous² by Claude Lelouch, 1976
Maybe Weekend? Cars That Ate Paris, radio on, kustom kar komandos, crash..
Jack
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On 15/12/2012, at 9:49 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote:
Hollywood commercial stuff:
Vanishing Point, 1971 (great car)
Seated Figures – Michael Snow, Cdn., 1988.
P
Fergus
And a thread with various cars accidents in silent films:
http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=3t=12134
One pair describes the film I mentioned earlier:
³One of the earliest British trick films (EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACCIDENT, 1903)
concerns an auto. A car drives into the picture and stops,
I already mentioned this to Bryan but thought I’d share it with the list,
regarding luxury and fantasy cars from the 1930s. Cocteau put several in
Orpheus, and there’s a neat one in Topper. And in another world, the custom
racer in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Then there’s the James Bond
Some others Cosmopolis (Cronenberg), also how about kids movies like Herbie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Jack
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On 15/12/2012, at 10:02 AM, Peter Mudie peter.mu...@uwa.edu.au wrote:
Talking about great cars, very hard to forget the Citroën DS21:
Le Samouraï, Jean-Pierre
Oops, forgot:
Taxi Driver, Scorcese 1976.
From an institutional point of view, I would imagine a course on cars in film
would be very popular – almost every exchange based product out of Hollywood
features a car in the obligatory chase sequence. But if it's a critical course
I would imagine
Powerful automobile related imaginings occurred in the early sixties
beginning with Disney's flying car flubber apotheosis in The Absent
Minded Professor (1961)
followed by the anthropomorphic VW Herbie films beginning in 1963
including The Love Bug (1968).
If you will allow television
Obvious, but two films made right before their directors ruined Hollywood
filmmaking:
Sugarland Express
American Graffiti
Of course Kustom Kar Kommandos, too.
Jeff Kreines
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You've quite a list forming here: industrial, underground, experimental,
commercial, etc.
Here's 2 contemporary commercial films that probably should be in the mix for
better or worse. Tarantino's DEATH PROOF (2007) and Nicolas Refn's DRIVE
(2011).
Art/experimental... Phil Solomon's LAST
_Repo Man_ is always intense.
Also, _Signal 30_ / _Red Asphalt_ etc.
Might be worth dipping into related media of the early 60s -- Beach
Boys' car-oriented records, Pete Millar's CARtoons, Ed Big Daddy Roth.
Tex Avery's _Car of Tomorrow_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBpDNRP5qQ
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Jim
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