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Mail to: BMW CCA NY Chapter Concours P0 Box 897, Upton, NY 11973 May-June 1999• Volume 25 Issue No. 3 Check the class for the car you are entering: Concour____ Street Class___ Page 3 Page 3 Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 Page 5 the Internet demands a heightened attention, if only because you may have to BMWFILMS.COM stare intently to see exactly what's going on; having a digital Internet connection or BMW Hopes That Its Mini-Movies The shorts are startlingly effective. BMW a T1 line doesn't hurt. And there are Will Sell Cars was touched by an angle: to position the the technical problems with streaming Web spots as not just commercials. The video, which can add unanticipated tension Written By: Elvis Mitchell automaker understood the importance of Critics Notebook in viewing climaxes because the films can burning the seal of credibility onto "Hire." often stutter and stall before playing out to Reprinted from the By asking well- known directors to bring their conclusions, an unfortunate New York Times June 26, 2001 their own particular — you might even say predicament given that the series is about, peculiar — feelings about cars to film, well, cars, specifically BMW's. (Logos of It might not be safe to say there are "Hire" becomes a marriage of commerce the other vehicles are obscured.) countless Web sites devoted to showing and creativity, straddling the ever- After an initial run on the Web site, short films, but Iwouldn't want to be the dwindling line between art and bmwfilms.com, the spots directed by Mr. one charged with tallying them. Yet of all merchandising. And by using directors of Frankenheimer and Mr. Lee were screened the shorts designed to give filmmakers a this caliber, BMW, the makers of what they at the Cannes Film Festival last month. Mr. chance to show their stuff, none are quite call the Ultimate Driving Machine, want Wong's short was first screened at this as puzzling as "The event. (The most recent Hire," the series of release, directed by Mr. mini-dramas Ritchie, had its premiere commissioned by recently on the Web site, and BMW and currently Mr. González Iñárritu is still running on AMBUSH completing his film.) bmwfilms.com. The At Cannes, "The Hire" Internet offers cachet as briefs seemed to well as freedom from underwhelm the crowd, constraints that affect perhaps because a letdown broadcast television, was inevitable after the but it's hardly the best excitement generated by the place to show mini- directors' names. The movies by master assembled were surprised filmmakers; the that the films were Independent Film commercials. Channel plans to add the shorts to its rotation eventually. But the notice of customers attracted to film art The BMW films tingle with zest in a way for now, there's only the tease seen in and directors not generally attracted to that car ads don't anymore. It's the tingle television commercials that beckon us to making commercials. Filmmakers with that most of us get to experience only when the Website, offering something maybe arthouse luster can be counted on to poring over Car and Driver, reading about never seen before, a trailer of a short. It's accomplish something all companies desire skidpad performance. You can feel the not unlike breaking a Chiclet in half. — relieve a customer of the necessity of filmmakers' pleasure, probably BMW's, at "The Hire" shorts — made by John making a decision about their product: if not having to brand the shorts with those Frankenheimer ("Ronin"), Wong Kar-Wai talents like Mr. Wong and Mr. Lee, in mincing "Don't Try These Stunts at Home" ("In the Mood for Love"), Ang Lee addition to Mr. Frankenheimer and Mr. disclaimers that seem to be found even in ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), Guy Ritchie, are a part of this campaign, BMW shampoo ads these days. Even Mr. Wong's Ritchie ("Snatch") and Alejandro must be in touch with something I need to moody spot has a call used machismo González Iñárritu ("Amores Perros") — be a part of. (Perhaps in the next series of missing from small- screen auto ads, feature Clive Owen, who is Internet films, BMW can bring in the instead of his usual sinuous narrative style familiar to fans of the PBS mystery director Albert Brooks, who has probably that questions traditional gender roles. "Second Sight" as Detective Chief used luxury cars in his films as often as an (Perhaps this burly chauvinism explains Inspector Ross Tanner. The British actor automotive nut like Mr. Frankenheimer. BMW's shortsightedness — not a single zoomed to fame last year with restrained Mr. Brooks's riff about the 3- Series BMW one of the spots is directed by a woman; star power in Mike Hodges's canny noir convertible in "Defending Your Life" are there no women on the autobahn?) film "Croupier" — in a manner close in should guarantee him a spot.) These little tone to several of BMW's poshest young pictures in "The Hire" series are not only BMW's motto — the Ultimate Driving models also featured in the "Hire" series. signature pieces for their directors; they are Machine — is the unspoken watchword in also very effective on the medium for each film. Mr. Owen, with a grimace so which they were created. The intimacy of expressive under that exquisite concave facial structure that he could have been Page 6 Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 engineered by exacting Bavarian designers, is the star of all five films. He's the driver, one of those laconic action samurai who The directors probably had a are chauffeur, shrink, lot of fun subjecting the cars bodyguard and some to beat- downs. The sedan at kind of master the end of "Ambush" is mechanic. (Mr. CHOSEN battered remains, and what's Owen, like all the left of the BMW at the close other actors in the of Mr. Lee's "Chosen" should series, goes without a be crushed and turned into character name, key-chain medallions that apparently in the could be sold at the Web site. interest of stylized Mr. Owen is assigned to pick anonymity up a boy religious leader, associated with art who's being chased by films.) Given the shadowy foes, and the car is maneuvers he puts put through its paces and several hundred the cars through, he has obviously disabled Forest Whitaker, Mickey Rourke as an rounds of gunfire — it looks like a the computer chip limiters that govern top anguished lump of a star (he's quite good) preventilated Camper sneaker when Mr. driving speeds for American cars, and and Adriana Lima as his wife, a dream who Owen has completed his job and saved his probably the ABS systems, too. (And since looks as if she has been sculptured out of client. Mr. Lee tosses in an inside joke, an he has apparently managed to find someone white chocolate. Mr. Owen is asked to, um, Incredible Hulk bandage that's a reminder to insure these cars despite what he puts follow Ms. Lima as a favor to Mr. Whitaker. that Mr. Lee will be directing a film version them through, perhaps he could star in It might be hard to keep an eye on Ms. of the "Beast Within" comics story. The Internet ads for Geico next.) Lima, despite her beauty, because she's "Hire" series wants to be about dualities, driving a Z3, a freedom ride that in Los too. Buyers will be attracted to the films The BMW gets its toughest workout in Mr. Angeles is almost as ubiquitous as because they're feisty and existential in the Frankenheimer's "Ambush," the only one Starbucks. most exhibitionistic way. "The Hire" is of the films so far to have a writing credit what movies might be like if someone — Andrew Kevin Walker of "Seven" Guy Ritchie's "Star" plays on the public decided to give James Bond a soul. And appropriately enough, since the spot stars perception of pop superstars. Madonna Mr. Owen, with his elongated and cruel a 7- Series sedan. Mr. Owen is ferrying plays a snarl of a singer who wants what jawline, suggests an updated Hoagy around a customer (the incredibly she wants when she wants it — it could Carmichael as a thug — a Bond physically adaptable Tomas Milian, last seen as the have been called "The Wife." (At least Mr. close to Ian Fleming's conception: the Glam tough-as-nails Mexican drug czar in Ritchie uses a Blur song instead of a tune Reaper. And instead of providing Bond "Traffic") who, it's revealed, is doing some by his real-life spouse — her midlife with a dog, his trusty companion is a BMW. special transport of his own; Mr. Milian is electronica is already playing in too many The series of shorts is an 80's idea — carrying a fortune in diamonds in his belly. BMW's.) In "Star," Mr. Owen gets to have spending money as if there were no Mr. Owen learns this when a truckload of a good time — his eyes have a bedeviled tomorrow — spliced into the Internet. Will jack-artists attempt a road heist. twinkle, as if he were on the verge of a this crossbreeding of these various strains There probably aren't many directors nervous breakdown while whipping his take? Only if looking at a BMW on the around who can handle a chase with the four- wheeled co-star, the mighty-mighty Internet is the final push someone needs to ruthless intelligence of Mr. Frankenheimer. M5, through the streets of Los Angeles as buy one of these cars. These shorts aren't The businesslike road sequences in if it were the agitator in a washing machine. timid and skittish like television spots, in "Ronin" show he knows exactly what he's If Mr. Hodges's "Croupier" hadn't shown which you would probably see the airbags doing, right down to putting Robert DeNiro how resourceful Mr. Owen is about his detonate after a stunt. On the other hand, behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz astringent minimalism, then having to at least in the television ads, you'd be 6.9, the old-school titan that may be the compete on a tiny computer screen with warned that Adriana Lima doesn't come fastest production car the Stuttgart just-off-the-boat cars gleaming in a muted with the car. manufacturer ever made. aluminum tone that can best be described as accomplice-after-the-fact silver puts him The BMW press materials admit that the in a whole new league. (Mr. Owens being revved-up brashness of "Ronin" was the subordinate to the car is not unlike Jack inspiration for the "Hire" series, and Mr. Nicholson's turn in "Chinatown," acting in Frankenheimer for some reason, comes a third of the movie with a bandage closest to recapturing— some might say covering part of his face.) Mr. Owen's terse reiterating — "Ronin's" drive-time. responses to Madonna are hilarious; he Mr. Wong's "Follow" is graceful, dolorous addresses her as "Sir," as if she were and vaguely incomprehensible, a treatise Peppermint Patty of "Peanuts" and he were May-June 1999• Volume 25 Issue No. 3 on loyalty and its consequences — in other Marcie. words, a précis of a Wong Kar-Wai film. Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 Page 7 "Follow" features hushed appearances by Wear your Chapter Pride ! (for 50% less)
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Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 Page 10 Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 Page 9 Rob Levinson's 1994 M5 Touring (Euro import) Trimmings: Avus blue, black buffalo interior Suspension and running gear: Nurburgring pack- age: e:mail: [email protected] EDC Electronic Damping Control suspen- sion 19mm rear sway bar 17x8 with 235/40-17 Potenza RE-71 (front) 17x9 with 275/40-17 Potenza RE-71 (rear) Engine and performance: 3.8l 24valve I-6 motor (available Europe only, '93-'95) original: 340hp, 295lb-ft (factory spec) now: calculated 380hp 318hp, 281lb-ft at the wheels () with Landshark chip original: 0-100km 5.9 seconds (factory spec) now: less! Other: Factory trailer hitch Auxiliary heater (works with car off) Headlight and foglight washers Sunroof-delete Bavaria tape head unit with remote 6-CD changer Factory cell phone mini-antenna on roof Seats five with luggage Sleeps two with rear seats folded down Upgrades and modifications: UUC Street*Evo shifter with titanium RKII knob UUC Transmission Mount Enforcers Landshark performance chip UUC-designed xenon HID conversion Wheels color-matched to lower trim Clear turn signals and side markers Valentine V1 hard-wired Hands-free Motorola StarTac Planned upgrades: 6-speed (from '95 M5) with 3.45 Quaife torque-sensing differential - Spring '01 Big Brake conversion Racelogic traction control Custom exhaust Ireland Engineering strut brace Motronix supercharger Dash-integrated Valentine V1 remote display and hidden V1 Speaker Upgrade (Boston Acoustics or a/d/s) Baby Seat with Racing Harness Not Included !
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