final countdown

"Le Mans"
directed by Lee H. Katzin
1971

Things to note about this movie:
1. Steve McQueen.
2. There's not a touch of dialogue for the first thirty-seven minutes of the film.
3. This scene might seem indulgent, but damn if it's not entertaining.
4. Steve McQueen racing cars.
5. Early 70's Steve McQueen.

god bless america

10 things I love about America:

• Hilary Rhoda
• The collaborative works of Steve McQueen and Sam Peckinpah
• Bacon Cheeseburgers (on a sesame seedless bun, of course)
  
• Converse All Stars
• Bulleit Bourbon
• J. Crew Button Downs
• 70's era Stevie Wonder
• Whit Stillman
• Mid-Century Modern Art
• New York City

Happy 4th!
W.

performance: on the run

If the guns, sex, '70s grit, or the film's middle-finger-to-the-world point of view isn't seductive enough, please watch the opening credits sequence to Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway".

king of cool

"Yesterday’s Loner: Steve McQueen"
Film Society of Lincoln Film Center
May 20-26, 2009
I. WILL. BE. THERE.

want: the one we all strive to be

Steve McQueen
photographs by William Claxton
$19.99“One time when I was with him, he drove a brand new Ford convertible, with only thirty miles on the speedometer, at top speed for such a long stretch of the Texas highway that the engine began to smoke and eventually caught on fire. He slowed down and shouted to me, “Clax, when I tell you to jump, jump!” We did jump out of the car just as it burst into flames. Steve sat on the side of the country road at a safe distance from the burning vehicle and laughed his head off.”—William Claxton

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