Showing posts with label Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movie. Show all posts

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12.27.2010

So long...


Great Actor
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu 02.07.49-27.12.2010

12.01.2010

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9.21.2010

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7.12.2010

Quadrophenia...

"Quadrophenia" was made in 1979, a time when Mod culture had completely disappeared and the bohemian lifestyle of the rock music scene caught mass appeal. The film is set in 1964, the peak point of the Mod revolution and the crucial year of the infamous Brighton riot, often cited as the biggest fight between the Mods and the Rockers. The film’s name is taken from the famous album by The Who with the same name. Ironically, many of the famous Mod bands including The Who turned towards Rock music once the Mod culture started to decline in the mid-1970s (from Brokenprojector.com)
Well, I spend good time listening to The Who while watching this movie... I'm sure you will do the same. Go get it!

3.30.2010

Continental Circus...

If the film was released in France in 1972, this is during 1969 that Jerome Laperrousaz would follow the caravan of the Continental Circus to film the lives of these "gladiators" of modern times.


In fact, it goes particularly pointing his camera on the pilot Jack Findlay and his wife Nanou.
Why filming an australian rider who was going to end the year at a modest 13th place in Class 500 on its Linto (an Aermacchi who was coupled with 2 engines of 250 cm3)?

The answer must be sought in the previous year: in 1968, Jack Findlay, pure private pilot, riding a modest single cylinder Matchless, finished runner-up 500 of the world behind the untouchable Agostini on his MV official. The following years, Findlay would finish at honorable place in Class 500 cm3 and 750 cm3. In 1975 he was crowned European champions on a 750 cm3 private Yamaha. It will stop the race in 1978.

In 1992 he became Technical Director of FIM Grand Prix, until the end of 2001. Jack Findlay died May 19, 2007 at the age of 72 years.
 
Legendary movie, "Continental Circus" will brings, by watching it, moments of mixed feelings: happiness and sorrow, smiles and tears.


Shivers of pleasure in hearing the magical sound of the MV D'Agostini that resonates in the air of the fabulous Spa circuit. But also sad to see the face of some drivers like Bill Ivy who was killed riding his 350 V4 Java July 12, 1969, the circuit Karl Marx Stadt in the former GDR and which we can see the funeral in the film and the 'tribute drivers on the grid.

Sadness also reviewed at the beginning of the film, the face of what was blond angel Santiago Herrero, who was killed a year after filming on the circuit of the Isle of Man.

This is not being ghoulish to insist on those accidents. It just show, to the younger generation,  that at this time when a pilot took the start of a race,  he could face the victory or the death.
Do not forget all those men who gave their lives to satisfy their passion.

Have a Beautiful day;

Art. Francis Boutet

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