For Hollywood cinema at its worst, it might be interesting to look at
recent blockbusters such as the Transformers series or recent James Bond
007 films that have inked product placement sponsorship deals with car
companies, essentially turning the films into 2 hour long car commercials.
There was
Some titles you probably already know:
Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car
'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel)
There's of course the fast and furious series, the Blues Brothers movies which
seem to focus especially on police-car crashes, the gone in 60 seconds movies
And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg, based on G.J. Ballard's novel.
On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Brecht Debackere wrote:
Some titles you probably already know:
Len Lye made 'Rhythm', about the construction of a car
'Christine' (based on Stephen Kings novel)
There's of course the fast and
'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/
'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/
Loath to mention it, but Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney.
Nicky.
On 14 Jan 2013, at 18:55, Brecht Debackere wrote:
And 'Crash' naturally, by Cronenberg,
More:
Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos.
Ernie Gehr: Shift.
The French Connection.
Steven Spielberg: Duel.
Nicky.
On 14 Jan 2013, at 20:16, Nicholas Hamlyn wrote:
'Vanishing Point': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/
'Point Blank' has some good crunching scenes:
Chevelle, and Century, by Kevin Jerome Everson
also his film Cinnamon, about a young female drag racer...
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Nicholas Hamlyn
nicky.ham...@talktalk.netwrote:
More:
Kenneth Anger: Kustom Kar Kommandos.
Ernie Gehr: Shift.
The French Connection.
Steven Spielberg:
And his 'The Pritchard'.
On 14 Jan 2013, at 21:46, Kathryn MacKay wrote:
Chevelle, and Century, by Kevin Jerome Everson
also his film Cinnamon, about a young female drag racer...
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Nicholas Hamlyn nicky.ham...@talktalk.net
wrote:
More:
Kenneth Anger:
Those are the films I was thinking of:
Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900
How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900)
On 12/19/12 10:10 AM, Gawthrop, Rob rob.gawth...@falmouth.ac.uk wrote:
And his Explosion of a Motor Car also 1900
Rob
On 15/12/2012 05:18,
Ryder White ryder.wh...@gmail.com wrote:
An Interesting Story 1905 George Albert Smith
On 19/12/2012 18:19, Adam Hyman a...@lafilmforum.org wrote:
Those are the films I was thinking of:
Explosion of a Motor Car also
1900
How It Feels To Be Run Over (1900)
On 12/19/12 10:10 AM, Gawthrop,
Rob rob.gawth...@falmouth.ac.uk wrote:
As if you wanted any more:
I believe Adam may have been talking about Buster Keaton's Three Ages
where a car falls apart while he's driving it.
Robert Morris - Gas Station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXqAFBWFgw
and http://lux.org.uk/collection/works/gas-station
The first hour or so of
Anyone mention Len Lye's RHYTHM yet?
-a
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Bryan Konefsky bkonef...@gmail.com wrote:
Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks
everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course!
best to everyone.
bryan konefsky
To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add *The Conformist
*, which uses a car trip as a central trope.
Best,
CC
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, franco base frenk.ca...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the best animation movie about car
by Bruno Bozzetto
Il signor Rossi compra
Much of the first half of Psycho takes place in Janet Leigh's car. She also
buys a used car in this film, in an agitated state.
The opening nightmare sequence of Fellini's 8 1/2 features Mastroianni
trapped in his car, in a traffic jam. This reminds me of REM's video for
Everybody Hurts, also
Chen - I was going to suggest these two precisely - we have similar taste I
guess!
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM, חן שינברג chen...@netvision.net.il wrote:
Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger .1965
Weekend by Jean Luc Godard. 1967
Chen S
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I guess so :-)
two great films!
Chen
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Chen - I was going to suggest these two precisely - we have similar taste
I guess!
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:54 PM, חן שינברג chen...@netvision.net.il
wrote:
Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger .1965
How about La Grande Bouffe, in which Marcello Mastroianni freezes to death in
his sports car, maybe a Bugatti?,
Nicky.
On 17 Dec 2012, at 21:57, Caryn Cline wrote:
To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add The Conformist,
which uses a car trip as a central trope.
Two for the road.
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On Dec 15, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Jack j...@jacktext.net wrote:
The book lost highways: the illustrated history of the road movie that I
co-edited has some essays that may be of interest.
Jack
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On 16/12/2012, at 2:47 AM, Bryan Konefsky
: [Frameworks] new critical studies film course in car culture
How about La Grande Bouffe, in which Marcello Mastroianni freezes to death in
his sports car, maybe a Bugatti?,
Nicky.
On 17 Dec 2012, at 21:57, Caryn Cline wrote:
To all of these great suggestions for Bryan, I'd like to add
Holy Canoli - I can't believe the response to my auto-inquiry! Thanks
everyone for the suggestions - can't wait to dive into this new course!
best to everyone.
bryan konefsky
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Kleinhans
chuck...@northwestern.eduwrote:
Late additions:
the new cult
There is an auto-inquisition of sorts in John Carpenter's original 1976
Assault On Precinct 13 with a murderous episode at an ice cream truck
as catalyst. Terrific moments of terror are triggered when cars are
simply
pushed from behind across a deserted parking lot.
Otherwise there is Lemmy
Pit stop - jack hill
Sex garage - fred halstead
There's a performance video of Dawn Kasper crashing her truck.
I don't know if there's movie documentation of this but Chris Burden's
Trans-fixed could be interesting to look at...
Matthew Barney's cremaster 3 is about cars, I'm sorry to say...
Last
Late additions:
the new cult mumblecore film BELLFLOWER
Paul Schrader's 1978 film about auto workers: BLUE COLLAR
Chuck Kleinhans
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Thanks everyone for your input... still hoping to get a few more film ideas
AND suggestions on readings.
best,
bryan konefsky
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Dvorchak da...@as220.org wrote:
Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans
Hi Bryan,
Autopia: Cars and Culture, eds. Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr is a good place
to look. There are at least one or two essays specifically and on cars and
cinema.
-Amy
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Thanks everyone for your input... still hoping to get a few more film ideas AND
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best,
bryan konefsky
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Dvorchak da
The most essential film- Anger's Kustom Kar Kommandos.
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My all-time favorite car movie is Fellini's Toby Dammit
http://youtu.be/loLRanmHTEY?t=4m34s
(at the Hammer Museum someone had paired it brilliantly with Carl Dreyer's
They Caught the Ferry—a motorcycle movie [does that count?])
Tony Lowe and Akiva Saunders' Arabian Drift is a compilation of
One of the best animation movie about car
by Bruno Bozzetto
Il signor Rossi compra l'automobile
Mr Rossi buy a car
1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQksyniUqPo
2012/12/15 Jack j...@jacktext.net
The book lost highways: the illustrated history of the road movie that I
co-edited has some
for Mobile Homes:
Albert Brooks, LOST IN AMERICA, 1985
if we're going to do motorcycles too: wow, that would be a lot. How about
riding lawnmowers?
But the car film really is a variant on the journey motif, right? So we'd we
have to start, narratively, with the OT book of Exodus, The
Most of the suggestions are. But I think what is interesting about those
very early car films, including the Hepworth film also mentioned, is that
the films are confronting the social anxieties over this new technology, as
it happens. As such, it's a visual representation of one element of the
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
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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
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
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Laurel and Hardy is Two Tars
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Chuck Kleinhans
chuck...@northwestern.edumailto:chuck...@northwestern.edu wrote:
The about to open, On The Road, and an almost endless stream
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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