{"id":42746,"date":"2015-11-11T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=42746"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:00:25","slug":"steve-mcqueen-the-man-and-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/steve-mcqueen-the-man-and-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently stumbled upon the trailer for the forthcoming documentary on the making of Steve McQueen’s 1970 passion project Le Mans<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re reading this you probably know a fair bit about the story. It was a madly complex production shot live at the 1970 24 hours of Le Mans and has since become one of the cult classics of car culture.<\/p>\n

McQueen undertook the project in order to not only take control of his career \u2013 but finally make a feature length picture about the most important thing in his life: motor racing.<\/p>\n

The resulting film – abstract, gritty, edgily rendered – is not exactly your typical Sunday afternoon matinee blockbuster. And though the film as a piece of commercial movie making is shot through with flaws it retains the texture and ambition of the epic McQueen set out to make.<\/p>\n

The intrigue behind the making of the movie itself is well worthy of a documentary. And with newly found footage and never-before-seen material and testament from McQueen’s contemporaries, the film is sure to resound with fans the world over.<\/p>\n

Just to see those snarling Porsche 917s saturated into moving film stock is good enough. I could watch that footage on a loop.<\/p>\n

Another layer is laid onto the heavily stacked cult of Steve McQueen.<\/strong><\/p>\n