He will be filming at our event, as he is finalizing his dates of travel as we speak. For those of you not aware ill include an overview of his movie, to debut possibly in spring of 2012. Here is your chance to get your car in a movie, pretty exciting stuff!
Buick Grand National Documentary Film Project
Contact:
Andrew Filippone Jr.
Director/Producer/Editor
(805) 905-1000
!lippone@earthlink.net
Steve is not happy
It’s not about performance. It’s about where you come from.
– Dr. Ulrich Bez
CEO, Aston Martin
Eschewing the car !lm’s usual focus on mechanical and performance issues, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s
60-minute documentary on the Buick Grand National is instead a kind of elegy for the car, a remembrance
of its short, paradoxical, but remarkable life.
#e Grand National’s world-class talent for straight-line acceleration placed it in league with some of the
most elite and expensive performance cars of its day. However, its place amongst the elites was dubious. In
the company of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Porsches, the Grand National’s inherited limitations – as a
Buick and as the child of a Regal – became plain. #e Grand National didn’t look like the elites, didn’t
behave like the elites, and certainly didn’t enjoy the cachet that was their birthright. #ough the Grand
National could run with the elites to 60mph and in the quarter-mile, it could never really be one of them
because of where it came from.
But, here too – within its own family – the Grand National experienced another dislocation. #e car was
unlike any other Buick in the mid-1980s. In a family of mature and (some would say) “stodgy doctors’
cars,”1 the “hulking black”2 Grand National was an anomaly, full of “!repower…[and] grit,”3 a literal black
sheep.
#e !lm, currently in post-production will have three primary sections: (1) Separation at Home, which
examines the radical differences in style, temperament, performance, and aspirations between the Grand
National and its Buick brethren; (2) Placeless Amongst its Peers, which looks at the vast cultural divide that
separated the Grand National from the recognized elite performance cars of the day; and (3) A De!ant End,
which deals with the arrival of the GNX – the ultimate Grand National – as General Motors abandoned
the G-body and moved to front-wheel drive platforms.
#e !lm will feature interviews with: automotive journalists Brock Yates, Don Sherman, Csaba Csere,
Martyn Schorr, and Tony Assenza; former Buick employees Lloyd Reuss, Darwin Clark, Mike Doble, Steve
Pasteiner, Bill Porter, and Gary Smith; author and historian Lawrence Gustin; and several Grand National/
GNX owners and enthusiasts.
#e !lm is scheduled for release in Spring 2012.
1From an interview with Csaba Csere.
2 & 3 From the article “Buick Regal Grand National” by Rich Ceppos (Car & Driver, April 1986).
July 29-31, BE THERE!!!:biggrin:
Buick Grand National Documentary Film Project
Contact:
Andrew Filippone Jr.
Director/Producer/Editor
(805) 905-1000
!lippone@earthlink.net
Steve is not happy
It’s not about performance. It’s about where you come from.
– Dr. Ulrich Bez
CEO, Aston Martin
Eschewing the car !lm’s usual focus on mechanical and performance issues, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s
60-minute documentary on the Buick Grand National is instead a kind of elegy for the car, a remembrance
of its short, paradoxical, but remarkable life.
#e Grand National’s world-class talent for straight-line acceleration placed it in league with some of the
most elite and expensive performance cars of its day. However, its place amongst the elites was dubious. In
the company of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Porsches, the Grand National’s inherited limitations – as a
Buick and as the child of a Regal – became plain. #e Grand National didn’t look like the elites, didn’t
behave like the elites, and certainly didn’t enjoy the cachet that was their birthright. #ough the Grand
National could run with the elites to 60mph and in the quarter-mile, it could never really be one of them
because of where it came from.
But, here too – within its own family – the Grand National experienced another dislocation. #e car was
unlike any other Buick in the mid-1980s. In a family of mature and (some would say) “stodgy doctors’
cars,”1 the “hulking black”2 Grand National was an anomaly, full of “!repower…[and] grit,”3 a literal black
sheep.
#e !lm, currently in post-production will have three primary sections: (1) Separation at Home, which
examines the radical differences in style, temperament, performance, and aspirations between the Grand
National and its Buick brethren; (2) Placeless Amongst its Peers, which looks at the vast cultural divide that
separated the Grand National from the recognized elite performance cars of the day; and (3) A De!ant End,
which deals with the arrival of the GNX – the ultimate Grand National – as General Motors abandoned
the G-body and moved to front-wheel drive platforms.
#e !lm will feature interviews with: automotive journalists Brock Yates, Don Sherman, Csaba Csere,
Martyn Schorr, and Tony Assenza; former Buick employees Lloyd Reuss, Darwin Clark, Mike Doble, Steve
Pasteiner, Bill Porter, and Gary Smith; author and historian Lawrence Gustin; and several Grand National/
GNX owners and enthusiasts.
#e !lm is scheduled for release in Spring 2012.
1From an interview with Csaba Csere.
2 & 3 From the article “Buick Regal Grand National” by Rich Ceppos (Car & Driver, April 1986).
July 29-31, BE THERE!!!:biggrin:
