VANISHING POINT

Richard C. Sarafian’s VANISHING POINT is the ultimate analog car chase movie with that roaring undercarriage of American existentialism. Written by renowned Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante under a pseudonym, it’s nominally the saga of a speed-addled Vietnam vet on the lam in a Dodge Challenger showcasing a radiator-shattering parade of unsurpassed stunt driving. It’s also a modern acid Western, a dystopian allegory of our surveillance society, and a love letter to the muscle car, all rolled into one.

This screening is presented in celebration of Robert M. Rubin’s Vanishing Point Forever, a beautiful new book bringing together everything there is to know in one lavishly illustrated volume. Rubin’s monumental tribute also includes assembled archival pieces, insights, interviews and quotes from a broad range of essential voices, including Cabrera Infante, Richard Prince, Alberto Moravia, J. Hoberman, cinematographer and director Janusz Kaminski, Raymond Chandler, Jean Baudrillard, Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Lucy Sante, race driver Sam Posey, and many more.

Vanishing Point Forever will be available for sale at the screening courtesy of Film Desk Books.