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Richard C Sarafian @ 83.

Vanishing Point was one of a crop of existential road movies in the early 1970s which quickly gained cult status.

Its director, Richard C Sarafian, who has died aged 83, never made another film that struck such a resounding chord with audiences, countercultural or otherwise. No matter: the appeal of Vanishing Point was enduring enough to make him a noted, even influential, figure.

Quentin Tarantino thanked Sarafian in the closing credits of his own four-wheeled thriller, Death Proof (2007), and the Scottish band Primal Scream signalled their admiration for Vanishing Point by naming a 1997 album after the movie.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013...ard-c-sarafian