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The High Definition Premiere of the Classic Film
Sunday, 8:15 Eastern Time on HD-Net Movies
Available via Selected Cable Systems and Direct-TV
Steve McQueen did virtually all of his own driving and the producers used the actual Le Mans cars and some wide shots from the actual race, including the Porsche 917. It's truly action packed.
If you have access to an HDTV with either Cable or Direct TV satellite, you may have access to this true "drivers" movie in High Definition for the first time. Should you miss the initial screening and/or do not have an HD DVR to record it, you can catch additional showings as noted:
Sun, Aug 19th - 8:15 PM ET / 5:15 PM PT - HD Premiere/Classics
Mon, Aug 20th - 12:15 AM ET / Sun, Aug 19th - 9:15 PM PT - Classics
Sat, Aug 25th - 8:00 AM ET / 5:00 AM PT
Thu, Aug 30th - 10:15 AM ET / 7:15 AM PT
Tue, Sep 4th - 4:45 PM ET / 1:45 PM PT
Sun, Sep 16th - 10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT - Classics
Mon, Sep 17th - 12:15 PM ET / 9:15 AM PT
(Note: These are Eastern and Pacific times)
Tighten your racing harness and enjoy!!
gpflepsen 08-19-07, 01:34 PM On a whole, HDnet Movies had a fine selection of flicks. Thanks for the heads up. Many of the movies that I'd like to watch, I either don't know they will be on or forget they are on. DVR is set.
Cool Hand Luke follows Le Mans showings today.
CycloneGT 08-19-07, 03:04 PM They need to get Gran Prix on HDNet Movies next. :D
They've had some good ones recently. Anyone for "The Godfather" and "Lawrence of Arabia"
(Although Lawrence is one of the widest aspect ratio movies ever produced. We might have to compromise our OAR for most scenes, otherwise, the picture might be about 15" tall on a 52" screen. For the big battle scenes, they could gradually zoom out to show the full picture width. It's not difficult to do with today's transfer technology and a little creative care.)
archiguy 08-19-07, 07:17 PM They've had some good ones recently. Anyone for "The Godfather" and "Lawrence of Arabia"
(Although Lawrence is one of the widest aspect ratio movies ever produced. We might have to compromise our OAR for most scenes, otherwise, the picture might be about 15" tall on a 52" screen. For the big battle scenes, they could gradually zoom out to show the full picture width. It's not difficult to do with today's transfer technology and a little creative care.)
:eek: Bite your tongue! OAR all the way, that's what they're known for. If the picture is too short, you just gotta' suck it up and sit closer. :)
gpflepsen 08-19-07, 08:59 PM That's why the equipment should be able to zoom itself.
afiggatt 08-19-07, 10:07 PM They've had some good ones recently. Anyone for "The Godfather" and "Lawrence of Arabia"
(Although Lawrence is one of the widest aspect ratio movies ever produced. We might have to compromise our OAR for most scenes, otherwise, the picture might be about 15" tall on a 52" screen.
Lawrence of Arabia was shot on Super Panavision 70 with a aspect ratio of 2.20:1 (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/technical). Hardly a superwide aspect ratio. Maybe you were thinking of Ben Hur (1959) which is 2.76:1.
vertigo235 08-19-07, 10:41 PM hmm, just started watching and for some reason it's window boxed, I have some small black pillars on the right and left.
vertigo235 08-19-07, 10:54 PM OK the pillars are gone now.
INCREDIBLE soundtrack also. I...ME...had to turn the volume down. Imagine that...me actually doing that.
Wolfie
CycloneGT 08-20-07, 03:50 PM Battle of the Bulge was on HDNet movies with its 2.76:1. May as well had two 4:3 tvs side by side.
My Lemans recording was screwed. Late night thunderstorm disrupted the dbs feed. Good thing they repeat it.
CaysonE 08-20-07, 09:24 PM I...well...wow. I've never seen this movie before and as a car guy I can see now that I have failed. This is the single greatest thing I've ever seen, and the soundtrack was amazing!
Grand Prix and Le Mans, the two best racing movies ever.
The two movies are the best full length ones out there, and even so, they are very different. Grand Prix is a more traditioinal scenario, whereas Le Mans is very racer oriented, and occurs basically during the 24 hour race period.
If you really want to get an adrenalin rush, buy the DVD of "Rendevous". This is a short (@ 9-10 min) real time race through the streets of Paris in a Ferrari. It will literally make your hairs stand up. Read more about the film @ http://www.rendezvousdvd.com/
Want to know more: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/Rendezvous.shtml
audiomagnate 08-22-07, 11:17 AM If you really want to get an adrenalin rush, buy the DVD of "Rendevous". This is a short (@ 9-10 min) real time race through the streets of Paris in a Ferrari. It will literally make your hairs stand up. Read more about the film @ http://www.rendezvousdvd.com/
Want to know more: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2005/Rendezvous.shtml
The second website says it was a Mercedes 450 SEL.
archiguy 08-22-07, 11:27 AM Watched this last night. Fantastic racing sequences and not much of a plotline. We were watching for close to 40 minutes before there was any real dialog, and didn't even notice! Great stuff in HD....
The second website says it was a Mercedes 450 SEL.
Never saw that comment before. It's entirely possible that this is the case, and that over the years, the Ferrari soundtrack became confused as the actual car in the film.
I guess a little more research is required.
colossus 08-27-07, 11:57 AM Watched this last night. Fantastic racing sequences and not much of a plotline. We were watching for close to 40 minutes before there was any real dialog, and didn't even notice! Great stuff in HD....
P0rn for racers :)
JMartinko 08-27-07, 12:16 PM DVR'd this one over the weekend and enjoyed watching. It had been a looooong time since I had seen it. I think it holds up OK, but like someone commented, not much of a plot line. I also noticed that it must have been 20 minutes into the movie before there was a couple of lines of dialogue. Still fun to watch.
Warning to anyone recording this. The movie was scheduled for 2:45, but it ran over so the recording chopped off before the ending. It may be it started a bit late for some reason, but it still chopped it off. Steve McQ had finished the race and was just walking over to the wife of the dead race driver when the recording stopped. I assume that was pretty much it unless there was some dialogue that followed. Give your recording an extra 5 minutes to avoid this problem.
JMartinko: You didn't miss anything.
The "postscript" in real life is that after a few years of the 1200+ HP, Porsche 917's winning Le Mans, they changed the rules to basically outlaw them. It took Porsche a while to come back with models that dominated like the 917's. In the mid-1980's, Porsche was back with the 962's, including the first use of clutchless/semi-automatic transmissions. I was at the 1986 race, shooting a marketing program for a motor-enthusiast travel company. Porsche won, but the car with the clutchless tranny retired due to a single broken bolt on the back stretch, which would not allow it to limp into the pits. Now...no respectable F1 car has a clutch, just paddles.
JMartinko: You didn't miss anything.
The "postscript" in real life is that after a few years of the 1200+ HP, Porsche 917's winning Le Mans, they changed the rules to basically outlaw them.
As a race fan, I can't let misinformation like this go by.
The Porsche 917s that raced at Le Mans were normally-aspirated flat-12s, that never produced much more than 600hp. The 1000+hp Porsche 917 was the turbocharged 917/30KL that raced in the Can Am series. This car was never legal for racing at Le Mans, and never did.
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