DVD : Vanishing Point

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NEWMAN,BARRY
EAN: 0024543110408
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0SpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 1.0
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
MPN: FOXD2221040D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1971

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 02/06/2007

Amazon.com:
Art film and road movie collide for Vanishing Point, an existential car chase across the desert in a post Easy Rider America. Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, a taciturn driver who bets that he can drive a new Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours. He loads up on amphetamines and begins his odyssey through the contemporary west while a funky black DJ (Cleavon Little) turns the driver into a folk hero and broadcasts advice on dodging the cops. It’s like a counterculture precursor to Smokey and the Bandit, with the road as the last bastion of freedom and the DJ as a combination commentator and mystical guide. The slim plot offers a network of society drop-outs that aid the “last free Man on Earth” (as the DJ describes him) on his obscure but obviously symbolic quest while flashbacks paint Kowalski as a world-weary hero. It doesn’t really make much sense, but the amazing car chases and excellent stunt work are stunningly set against the American west, beautifully captured by cinematographer John A. Alonzo. Vanishing Point is most assuredly a product of its time, the heady, anything-goes era of rebellion in the early 1970s. –Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wonderful service..definitely recommend.
I purchased Vanishing Point for my fiance and he loved it. I loved the great, fast service. I would highly recommend.

Thank you.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Blu-ray out in Germany
The German BD came out containing some of the extras in 1080/24p: 17-minute Look Back with interviews with Barry Newman, Richard Sarafian and the nude Biker girl (clothed). 10-minute film, also in HD, about muscle cars and the Dodge Challenger. Trailer in HD, 2 TV spots in 480i.

Sountrack dts HD-MA with new remix with cars passing by to the side and to the rear in some instance. Seemed to me quite center concentrated.

It seems the US Version will have some more extras. BonusView … Read More

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - perfect
I had been searching for this video. It was just what I was looking for!

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not a car chase movie
Don’t get wrong : this is not a fantastic car chase movie. It’s a movie from the early seventies about freedom, about America living the end of a golden age, about a country made of hope and contradictions. It is also about space, and time, about beauty (the desert is amazingly beautyful).

R. Sarafian is a great director, with very little he does big effect, and Barry Newman is exactly the guy requested for this role.

Besides, it is a fantastic car chase movie.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It Still Holds Up Today
I saw this in the theater in 1972 while restrained in the Marine Corps and was transported by the music, wide open desert spaces, anti-establishment themes, Kowalski’s sense of fair play and nude hippie chicks on motorcycles. In other words all the freedoms I missed while being in the service. I really loved it then and was a little apprehensive about seeing it again as I wasn’t sure it would hold up over the years. 36 years to be exact.

Well, the movie works on many different levels and it still … Read More

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