FYC: THE ART OF AUTO RACING

By: spartac​ula

No stagecoachs, bikes, wheelchairs, chariots etc., just open wheel, muscle cars, sports, NASCAR, drag racing; I don’t care… If it’s competition between opponents or the clock, I’m in… There are great family choices here, too!

the following are missing from the ‘MUBI’ list:

- 3: THE DALE EARNHARDT STORY (‘04) – Russell Mulcahy
- THE GUMBALL RALLY (’76) – Charles Bail
- THE CANNONBALL RUN II (‘84) – Hal Needham
- HERBIE FULLY LOADED (’05) – Angela Robinson
- STROKER ACE (‘83) – Hal Needham
- SIX PACK (’82) – Daniel Petrie
- REDLINE (‘07) – Andy Cheng
- SPEEDWAY (’68) – Norman Taurog
- KART RACER (‘03) – Stuart Gillard
- THE BIG WHEEL (’49) – Edward Ludwig

• 01
  American Graffiti
  George Lucas
• 02
  Le Mans
  Lee H. Katzin
• 03
  Vanishing Point
  Richard C. Sarafian
• 04
  Two-Lane Blacktop
  Monte Hellman
• 05
  The Last American Hero
  Lamont Johnson
• 06
  Cars
  John Lasseter
• 07
  Speed Racer
  Andy Wachowski
• 08
  On the Beach
  Stanley Kramer
• 09
  Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  Adam McKay
• 10
  Cry-Baby
  John Waters
• 11
  Eat My Dust
  Charles B. Griffith
• 12
  The Cannonball Run
  Hal Needham
• 13
  Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
  John Hough
• 14
  Grand Prix
  John Frankenheimer
• 15
  Driven
  Renny Harlin
• 16
  The Fast and the Furious
  Rob Cohen
• 17
  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
  Justin Lin
• 18
  2 Fast 2 Furious
  John Singleton
• 19
  Days of Thunder
  Tony Scott
• 20
  Winning
  James Goldstone
• 21
  Fast & Furious
  Justin Lin
• 22
  Bobby Deerfield
  Sydney Pollack
• 23
  Heart Like a Wheel
  Jonathan Kaplan
• 24
  Death Race
  Paul W.S. Anderson
• 25
  Senna
  Asif Kapadia
• 26
  Fast Five
  Justin Lin