Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point
by Richard C. Sarafian

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Actor: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Paul Koslo, Victoria Medlin
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Brand: NEWMAN,BARRY
Cinematographer: John A. Alonzo
Editor: Stefan Arnsten
Producer: Michael Pearson
Producer: Norman Spencer
Writer: Barry Hall
Writer: G. Cabrera Infante
Writer: Malcolm Hart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Vanishing Point

DVD Review: Great video in blu-ray !
Summary: 4 Stars

This film shooted in 1971 had an excellent video transcription to blu-ray. Greate scenes on the road, a simbolic story, and that is all. You must see to compare with films shooted today and sometimes has a bad video quality.

DVD Review: Great Car Chase
Summary: 4 Stars

well if there was a how to book or video on how to do a chase movie this classic would definetely be it :D

loved it even before seing it on bluray loved it even more after the great visuals and sound

DVD Review: Great car chase flick!
Summary: 4 Stars

I enjoyed this high octane trip down memory lane, not so much the sudden stop at the end. But you knew Kowalski would never surrender.

DVD Review: Greatest cult flick ever.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a great movie. Kowalski a car delivery driver needs to make it from Denver to California over the weekend. He even places a bet with a drug dealer for the cost of some speed that he can make it. While driving a hopped up 426 Hemi Challenger R/T he certainly has the muscle to make it. You'll learn a lot about our driver with flash back scenes of his past life as the story goes along. You'll even meet Super Soul, a blind, black DJ that tries to help our driver with his unique powers of esp, until he gets roughed up by some local racist cops. You'll have to get the video to see how it all unfolds. A must for any car guy.

DVD Review: Sometimes it's hard to tell what you're getting...
Summary: 3 Stars

I saw this film in the theater when it originally came out. I've since seen it once on one of the movie channels. I was enthused at the prospect of watching this intrigueing film on Blu-Ray with my new 52" HDTV and Blu-ray home theater system. When it arrived, I open the box to watch it immediately!!! Inside the box, there was an insert mentioning that the DVD was made to todays' best, exacting industry standards. It also mentioned it might not be compatible with my new Blu-Ray player. I ignored the insert, popped it in the player only to find out that the insert was correct. My player alerted me with a new (to me) "red screen of death"!!! I learned a new term that day; "firmware upgrade". Following the guidance on the insert I went to the information site on the web, found my players' manufacturers' site and followed their instructions for burning a CD to upgrade my players' firmware. It didn't work!!!!! So, having bought the player just three months earlier, I took it to the store associated with the "Geek Squad". After two hours of trying, they determined that my player needed to go to the service center to be fixed so it WOULD be able to accept this and any future "firmware upgrades". As the player is also the home theater portion of my entire system, I declined their offer to send ot to the service center for, oh, TWO TO THREE WEEKS!!!! I'll wait until I have several movies that can't be played before I dismantle my home theater system for three weeks just to watch a movie I had anticipated enjoying. Until then it can sit on the shelf and age. Why three stars??? Even if the Blu-Ray version isn't all that I expected, it's still an interesting movie!!! JRB

Description of Vanishing Point

Thrills, spills and a handful of pills. It all adds up to one of the most spectacular car chases in motion picture history! Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, the last American hero, who set out to prove that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in just fifteen hours. Along the way, he meets an old prospector (Dean Jagger), a snake worshipper, a nude woman on a motorcycle, and a blind D.J. (Cleavon Little) who "sees" danger ahead in this super-charged, action-packed adventure!

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

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