Car Culture Club

Car Culture Club

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Cars and Hollywood were made for each other. Car Culture Club™ is amazed and delighted by the sheer volume of car scenes in the movies, often pivotal to the plot and cast. When seen in isolation, these classic car clips show enormous range of drama behind the wheel, in the back seat, being chased, crashing, picnicking, no brakes, speeding, low-riding, drag racing, and that is not even mentioning dialogue, tears, fears, moaning, groaning, confessions, distractions, rage, rainy windshields, and convertibles.

New releases

Gone in 60 Seconds / Cars and drivers gone berserk as Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie careen along for the thrills and spills in a 40-minute chase scene demolishing nearly 100 vehicles. Directed by Dominc Sena/Touchstone-Bruckheimer/June, 2000 release.
M:I-2 / Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2 with outstanding car dueling chases, nail-biting spins and bucking bronco motorcycle wheelies. Directed by John Woo/Paramount/May, 2000 release.
Road Trip / The zany misadventures of a love struck teenager and his pals who take an 1800 mile drive from upstate NY to Austin, TX to save a romance. Directed by Todd Phillips/Dreamworks/May, 2000 release.

Best Car actor:

Christine, Stephen King’s crazy Chrysler
Director/studio/year released
John Carpenter/Columbia-Delphi/1983

Best Supporting Car actor:

Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger
Guy Hamilton/UA-Eon/1964

Best Actor inside a car:

Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan/Columbia/1954
James Dean in Rebel without a Cause
Nicholas Ray/Warner/1955
Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese/Columbia/1976
Isaac Hayes in Escape from New York
John Carpenter/Avco Embassy/1981
Morgan Freeman & Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy
Bruce Beresford/Warner-Zanuc/1989

Best Ensemble inside a car:

Cast of American Graffiti
George Lucas/Universal-Lucas Film-Coppola Co./1973
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma and Louise
Ridley Scott/UIP-Pathe/1991
Steve Martin &John Candy in Planes,Trains,&Automobiles
John Hughes/UIP-Paramount/1987
Chevy Chase and the cast in National Lampoon’s Vacation
Harold Ramis/Warner/1983

Best Actor inside a truck:

Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces playing piano
Bob Rafelson/Columbia/1970
Kurt Russell in Breakdown
Jonathan Mostow/TCF-Dino de Laurentiis/1997

Best Actor inside a trunk:

Joe Pesci in GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese/Warner/1990

Best Actress inside a bus:

Sandra Bullock in Speed
Jan de Bont/TCF/1994

Best car chase:

French Connection
William Friedkin/TCF/1971
Bullitt
Peter Yates/Warner-Solar/1968
Smokey and the Bandit
Hal Needham/Universal-Rastar/1977

Best car ensemble:

Mad Max
George Miller/Warner-Mad Max/1979

Best Racing Movie:

Days of Thunder
Tony Scott/Paramount/1980
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch/Les Films/1966

Best yard trench in a car:

John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino/Buena Vista-Miramax/1994

Best car crash:

Vanishing Point
Richard Sarafian/TCF-Cupid/1971

Best car wash:

Chow Yun-Fat & Mira Sorvino in The Replacement Killers
Antoine Fuqua/Columbia-WCG/1998

Best underwater car:

Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd in Double Jeopardy
Bruce Beresford and Peter James/Paramount/1999
Roger Moore’s Lotus Esprit in The Spy Who Loved Me
Lewis Gilbert/UA-Eon/1977

Best truck crash:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron/Guild-Carolco-Pacific Western/1991
Twister
Jan de Bont/Warner-Universal-Amblin/1996

Best Checker in a movie:

Mr. T in D.C. Cab
Joel Schumacher/RKO-Universal/1983
Magicab in As the Wheel Turns
Carl Sears/Magicab/2000

Best paranormal car:

Cadillac hearse in Ghostbusters
Ivan Reitman/Columbia-Delphi/1984
Pickup truck in Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg/Coumbia-EMI/1977
Jeff Bridges in Tucker: The Man and his Dream
Francis Ford Coppola/UIP-Lucasfilm/1988

Scariest Hitchhiker:

Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher
Robert Harmon/Columbia-EMI-Warner/1986
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tobe Hooper/Vortex/1974

Best Stolen Car:

Richard Gere in Breathless
James McBride/Miko-Breathless Assoc/1983

Best Car Repo Man:

Harry Dean Stanton in Repo Man
Alex Cox/Universal-Edge City/1984

Best movie motorcycle:

Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider
Dennis Hopper/Columbia-Pando-Raybert/1969
Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
John Sturges/UA-Mirisch-Alpha/1963
Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again
Irvin Kershner/Warner-Woodcote-Taliafilm/1983
Jackie Chan in Rumble in the Bronx
Stanely Tong/Golden Harvest/1995
Michael Douglas in Black Rain
Shohei Imamura/Artificial Eye-Imamura Prod./1988

Best Car Shootout:

Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn/Warner-Seven Arts/1967

Best Missile Attack on a Car:

Directed at Harrison Ford in Tom Clancy’s Clear and Present Danger
Phillip Noyce/Paramount/1994

Best Love Scene in a Car:

Sean Young & Kevin Costner in No Way Out
Roger Donaldson/Orion/1987
The One you make your Own

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