Steve McQueen the man & Lemans movie trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8T1D6Jqc3Y

Documentary following iconic movie actor/director Steve McQueen's journey to make 'the ultimate racing movie', Le Mans, in France in the 1970s, which interweaves present day interviews with his family members and production team with remarkable archive footage that goes behind the making of the film that would lead one of the most charismatic stars of all time to lose everything in the pursuit of a dream.

Steve McQueen On Any Sunday
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/video-post/820047-any-sunday-original-movie-full-length.html

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/bike-tech/820043-any-sunday.html

I am Steve McQueen
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/video-post/824546-i-am-steve-mcqueen-full-length.html

The Sand Pebbles
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/v...ll-length.html

The Getaway
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/video-post/824549-steve-mcqueen-getaway.html

The Last Mile
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/v...last-mile.html

Steve McQueens $120,000 Harley Davidson
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/b...-davidson.html

 

Alex Lamas
This is a great doc for a great film! You really get an intimate portrait of McQueen and get to know his bitter-sweet son Chad. McQueen as a true artist never negotiated his vision and time proved his critics wrong. "Racing is life anything that happens before or after is just waiting." Le Mans wan intimate portrait of what it "feels" like to be a real car driver, it's a true visual poem to motor racing and the best example of the combination of visual storytelling and the visceral experience of the racing. Critics complained that there was no story or script but I guarantee you if they had anymore of a story or dialog it would have ruined this film. This was experimental filmmaking at it's best and it a tribute to the racers of that time. Le Mans was one of those rare perfect films where every line, every shot, every edit is exactly where it should be. No amount of words are waisted and every bit of dialog is succinct and to the point. No superfluous story, no pointless plot, no unnecessary scenes. If Truffaut or Godard made a racing movie it would have been like Le Mans. For race car drivers and racing fans this is the greatest racing films ever made and that is the ultimate endorsement.

 

Chad McQueen at the LA premier Steve McQueen the man & Lemans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa-5bfgq3Pc

 

Directors interview Steve McQueen the man & Lemans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C1O9AYMyIw

 

BFI film festival Steve McQueen the man & Lemans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZvMdz5Xt6M

 

John McKenna at the LA Premier Steve McQueen the man & Lemans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46Se4wOXt4

 

Les Sheldon at the LA premier Steve McQueen the man & Lemans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46Se4wOXt4

 

Neile Adams McQueen at the LA premier Steve McQueen the man & Lemans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkPf77RqL_M

 

Edward Hunter
Well, there were huge production troubles behind the making of the film...McQueen wanted to make more of a documentary about Le Mans guest starring him driving in the race, whereas the Studio execs wanted something more Hollywood...The end result is kind of a halfway house between the two and it's far from perfect; but the racing footage is at least awesome and enough of McQueen's original racing spirit makes it onto the screen. At one point it looked very likely that the film would never be finished at all, so the fact that McQueen compromised and the film got released at all is a bit of a miracle. There was a great documentary that came out last year called "Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans" which gives a lot of detailed insight into what was going on in Steve's life at the time and why the film turned out the way it did.

 

In a Car and Driver interview, someone said that very early in the morning

when no one was looking, Steve McQueen got into the camera car and did

a few laps.
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If it had been me.....so would I
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