Expedient MEANS

Notes on Film, Art, Writing, Technology and other things by Steve A Furman

Tag: Cars

  • Rush – Film Review

    Rush, Ron Howard’s latest film, explores the intense rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, two go for broke Formula 1 race car drivers who competed in the mid 1970’s. The filmmakers go to great lengths to seamlessly transport us back four decades, with careful crafting of  locations, costumes and…

  • Paul Newman – Icon of the Screen is Dead at 83

    My earliest memory of Paul Newman was in 1967 when my family was on our annual summer vacation at my Uncle’s lake house in Michigan. It was a small city that had only one movie theater. They were screening Cool Hand Luke that July, and I remember it well, “What…

  • Asleep at the Wheel – Why Consumers Forgot About American Cars

    This post is in response to George Colony’s CounterIntuitive blog challenge, why can’t America build great cars? George, in a way it’s not their fault. Like many things America has done so well over the last 100 years, we find ourselves with some pretty smart competition these days. It used…