Most Radical Car Movie of All Time

[MAJOR STONER]

"C'était un rendez-vous" ("It Was an Appointment") is a short film by Claude Lelouch (1976) that has become a legend among car and movie lovers alike.

It is illegal, uncompromising, highly dangerous documentary, shot in one take, without any special effects... as the director starts his car early in the morning and races through Paris with complete disregard for traffic lights, one-way streets, cars, buses and pedestrians - to meet with his wife 8 minutes later in one intensely romantic ending.

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link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLC3-BciWlk#

 

[drivingnirvana]

This is so old. But guys at F-chat are not agreeing on the authencity of this shot. They even claim it's not this vehicles engine noise and so on.

But none the less, it's always true joy to watch it. I wish I could save it on my computer, it's a immortal classic.

 

[BD]

I'm not sure if this was the one. My friend shot either this one (or another one similar to this one when 350Z was first introduced).

His we called him Zap!!!

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[robr]

This is so old. But guys at F-chat are not agreeing on the authencity of this shot. They even claim it's not this vehicles engine noise and so on.

But none the less, it's always true joy to watch it. I wish I could save it on my computer, it's a immortal classic.

There are plenty of free software packages out there that will let you save Youtube movies to your PC and even convert them to MPG. Just google "download youtube movies" or some such.

 

[SoCalDude]

I wish I could save it on my computer, it's a immortal classic.

Use http://vixy.net/

 

[CL65 Captain]

The film was speeded up (at 1:12 in the video you can see a bird at the top of the screen flying left to right at over mach 2) to make it look like it was going faster than it actually was. The sound was then added in during editing and the driver was Jacky Ickx.

 

[drivingnirvana]

There are plenty of free software packages out there that will let you save Youtube movies to your PC and even convert them to MPG. Just google "download youtube movies" or some such.

Use http://vixy.net/

Thanks guys. I just found the same clip at Google Video and downloaded it as a VLC Player/ iPod file. Works great.

 

[steveny]

ah the beauty of covering lots of ground in a little bit of time.

 

[PaulL]

Rendezvous was definitely speedup up.
Turn the sound off and watch it ... he's barely making any ground on buses and pedestrians. The stripes on the road are just slowly moving along.

 

[NeoNSX]

Easily "Getaway in Stockholm 3" -- simply because it features our beloved NSX. :smile:

 

[nsx2tall]

SHENANIGANS!

At one point the car downshifts and then upshifts to 5th gear. WOT in 5th gear should problably be in the 100-140mph range for just about any car, but overtaking other vehicles is at a relative snails pace in the video.

 

[da3dalus]

Didn't top gear report that the filming was actually done in a Merc SL and the audio was dubbed over?

 

[dave22]

Didn't top gear report that the filming was actually done in a Merc SL and the audio was dubbed over?

Fifth Gear, and it was an S-Class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcV5kQFr9o

Very interesting stuff in there.

 

[da3dalus]

Good find dave... I spent a bit of time looking through my TG episodes with no luck

 

[JDMnsxR]

does "REDLINE" constitute as the MOST radically BAD movie of all time? :tongue:

 

[da3dalus]

does "REDLINE" constitute as the MOST radically BAD movie of all time? :tongue:

Yes. I watched it just for the cars alone, and I had a hard time actually forcing myself to sit through the entire thing without turning it off. It was the WORST movie i've ever seen, bar none. How it actually got produced is beyond me. I've seen porn films with better plot lines and acting.

 

[JDMnsxR]

Yes. I watched it just for the cars alone, and I had a hard time actually forcing myself to sit through the entire thing without turning it off. It was the WORST movie i've ever seen, bar none. How it actually got produced is beyond me. I've seen porn films with better plot lines and acting.

how it got produced is simple... no movie company wanted the project, so the creater and financier of the movie did it all out of pocket, including the cars that were wrecked.....