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Page 4 Die Zugspitze July-August 2001 • Volume 27 Issue No. 4 New York Chapter BMW CCA Presents 6th Annual Great Marques at Old Westbury Gardens Concours D’Elegance To Be Held On the Grounds of Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury NY Sunday September 16, 2001 Gates Open at 9:00am Rain Date September 23, 2001 Judging At 11:00 AM This event will feature BMW, Porsche, and Ferrari Cars Owners of cars not competing in the Concours will be directed to a special exhibit area for public viewing. Bring the family and your camera Directions to Old Westbury Gardens: From The LI Expressway: Take exit 39S (Glen Cove Rd.) follow the Service Road east for 1.2 miles, turn right on to Old Westbury Road and continue 0.4 miles to the Gardens on the left. From The Northern State Parkway: Take exit 32N to Post Ave., go north on Post Ave., make a left on Jericho Tpke. (Rte 25) and a right at the first light onto Old Westbury Road. The Gardens entrance is on the right. For additional directions call 516 333-0048 or http://www.oldwestburygardens.org/ Concour Update Hotline 631-821-2002 or 917-686-0284 or e-mail [email protected] Name__________________________________________________________ Address____________________________City___________State_____Zip_______ Telephone Number_________________ Make _________ Model _________ Check for $25.00 enclosed, payable to BMW CCA New York Chapter, Inc. 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.