Vanishing Point
Length: EP
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Rated: R
Cast: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
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The Enzian’s being pretty blatant about the reason they booked this fantabulous muscle-car movie for one night: The last quarter of Grindhouse was little more than a love note to this flick’s towering excellence. The 1971 tale of Kowalski, a fistful of speed and a badass 1970 white Dodge Challenger making their way from Denver to San Francisco in 15 pulse-raising, cop-evading hours is not the most layered of moral fables, but it manages to be a hell of a lot more honest about the Woodstock generation’s reality than Easy Rider ever was. While legions of gearheads still worship at the altar of the super-cool, ultra-reticent Kowalski, we confess that it was the KOW radio DJ ‘Super Soulâ?� (and that naked chick in the desert) that really made the movie for us. Them and, of course, the car. (9:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, at Enzian Theater; $8; 407-629-0054)
This article appears in May 23-29, 2007.