[Leica] LeMans the movie on now

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

Funny, I got Vanishing Point out of a bargain bin and
showed it to my Art History students last spring. I
hadn't seen it since it came out, and had forgotten
about the naked chick on the motorcycle. Overall, they
were entranced and stumped. I regularly show the chase
from Bullitt, but don't often show the whole movie.
Too many Antonioni type silences - funny how dated
some things can look now.

On another note I bought a bike at the beginning of
summer. More out of a wish to reduce carbon footprint
than for any lost youth reclaimation (I broke my knee
on a bike 30 years ago): an '84 Honda 500 v-twin
Ascot. No way I'm buying a Harley; America just
doesn't need more old farts on hogs.


--- Rob McClure <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> wrote:

> Len,
> 
> I had a new red 1992 Mustang 5.0 liter 5 speed .  It
> was my 40 year old 
> midlife crisis machine.  I loved it, but then my son
> got his license 
> and insurance went through the roof, so I traded it
> on something more 
> pedestrian.  Now I get my kicks from a motorcycle
> (which I wrecked 
> yesterday, but that's another story).  I saw
> Vanishing Point at the 
> drive in when I was a teenager.  Everyone was so
> fired up at the end of 
> the movie that it was like an Indy 500 start tearing
> out of the parking 
> lot.  I just bought the DVD from amazon.com and it
> is still exciting, 
> while being a neat period piece with naked hippies,
> drugs, etc.
> 
> Rob McClure
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Leonard Taupier wrote:
> 
> > OK, Rob.
> >
> > Now I've got to rent the Vanishing Point. Ric
> started it, but I had to 
> > rent Bullitt to see the Mustang chase since I just
> got a new GT stick. 
> > Just what a 69 year old needs, right? Funny thing.
> I was in the camera 
> > shop on Friday and one of the regular customers, a
> 70 year old, bought 
> > a GT 2 weeks before me. Neat car. Beckons old
> timers. I did have a '65 
> > some 35 years ago though.
> >
> > Len
> 
> 
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