Across Paris in 8min: C’était un rendez-vous (1976)
digg_url = 'WEBSITE_URL'; Long before Fast and Furious, the Ghost Rider and other YouTube’s overabundant homemade videos of insane street driving, Oscar-winning director, Claude Lelouch, shot C’etait un rendez-vous (It Was an Appointment), a 9 min short. The only point of view is from the front bumper of a car, crossing Paris at very high speed, taking one way streets in reverse and running red lights. Only at the end do we understand why the driver was in... Read More
Batman’s new ride: the Bat-Pod
We’ll have a complete presentation of the upcoming Dark Knight here soon, but we’ve found this video of NBC’s Today Show introducing the Bat-Pod and it gives a pretty good idea of the new beasty motorcycle. Bruce Wayne has some extreme ideas when it comes to transportation devices… Stay tuned! Read More
Vehicles of The Golden Compass (2007)
digg_url = \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/01/31/vehicles-of-the-golden-compass/\\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\; Although there’s no “cars” in The Golden Compass, there is a good diversity of vehicles set in a particular parallel past/future such as the Sky Ferry, the Carriage, balloons, ships, etc. The movie Potter, Narnia, Stardust… The Golden Compass is the latest in that long list of fantasy/family blockbusters to have been rolled out... Read More
Goodbye Heath Ledger
Weirdly enough, I was getting ready to write an article about The Dark Knight last Sunday, taking screen captures of the high-def trailer, with the Batmobile, the Joker and the new Bat-bike. Now it just doesn’t seem right. Opportunistic. As you probably already know, Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker -and just watching the trailer gives the feeling of a fantastic performance- passed away yesterday, January 22nd. He was 28 and leaves a two-year-old daughter, Matilda. Australian-born... Read More
