Vanishing Point
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Fifteen short hours: that’s what Kowalski is betting on, confident he can make it from Denver to San Francisco in that time. This Vietnam veteran—who is also a former police officer and pilot—will soon have the police hot on his heels, but nothing can deter him. An epic car chase!
Richard C. Sarafian
Richard C. Sarafian was an Armenian-American film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades. Sarafian is best known as the director of the 1971 film Vanishing Point and the classic The Twilight Zone episode Living Doll.
