Thursday, December 18, 2008

See Paris in 8 minutes

Claude Lelouch - C'était un rendez-vous (1976)

“It makes Bullitt look like a cartoon” - Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, BBC)



The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning (05:30hrs), accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car (a Ferrari 275 GTB) exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well-known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, centre lines are crossed, the car runs on a pavement to avoid a refuse lorry. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper, judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of kerbstones on Montmartre, with the famous Cathedral Sacré Cœur behind, and out of shot. Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background, with the famous backdrop of Paris.

from Wiki

Les enfants de Serge

Friday, December 12, 2008

And now for a commercial break


... to the tune of The Kinks "Picture Book". An oldie but a goodie.

Dave Emlen's Unofficial Kinks Web Site

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

I Can't Believe We Don't Have Any Cat Pictures!

feel better already...