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BAFTA-winning director Michael B. Clifford is best known for his quirky, often provocative TV documentaries (Tourist Trouble, Abba: Bjorn Again).
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http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Cameo_Picturehouse/film/Bicycle/
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"Bicycle + Filmmaker Q&A [pg]" Cameo 16th Oct
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Thought it was time to bump this thread.
Tickets seem to be sold out, according to the Cameo's website. :-( I'm annoyed and surprised that there's only one showing.
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Bicycle (@BICYCLEfilm)
13/10/2014 18:17
“@CyclingEdin: Edinburgh needs another showing” another screening this Saturday 1pm tiks from tomm @CameoCinema
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CCE outing??
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CCE outing??
Sounds like a plan.
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”Bicycle” a 90 minute documentary, asks the question why is cycling and the bicycle back in fashion? The film, which is directed by BAFTA winning director and keen cyclist Michael B.Clifford tells the story of cycling in the land that invented the modern bicycle, it’s birth, decline and re birth from Victorian origins to today. The film weaves bicycle design, sport and transport through the retelling of some iconic stories and features interviews with notable contributors Sir Dave Brailsford, Gary Fisher, Chris Boardman, Ned Boulting, Sir Chris Hoy, Tracy Moseley, Mike Burrows and many more plus great archive, animation and music. “Bicycle” is a humorous, lyrical and warm reflection on the bicycle and cycling and its place in the British national psyche.
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Yay! I have my ticket for Saturday.
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Went last night and really enjoyed it.
It strikes a good balance between history (British role in development of cycling, where it all went wrong, and why there may be hope for the future), sport, some lovely (and at times emotional) vignettes, and a spot of advocacy.
The 90 minutes flew by.
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Anyone else on for 12.45 tomorrow? The website reckons tickets are still available to buy.
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I will need to catch the next showing had my first group cycle today with work folk.
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Worth seeing.
Useful history 'lessons'.
Too much racing really.
Chris Boardman has come to "campaigning" via racing.
'We' know that, but perhaps not most people who see bikes as 'machines for racing'.
His call for £10 per head for cycling every year is likely to become louder. Perhaps 'more realistic' than calling for the full Dutch - £20.
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Bicycle (@BICYCLEfilm) tweeted at 10:56am - 14 Oct 14:
Ask your MP to attend screening nxt Tuesday 7pm House of Commons:find them here http://t.co/TSA6vBgDGB
@Chris_Boardman
@allpartycycling (https://twitter.com/BICYCLEfilm/status/522091768180125697)"
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After being sold out on Thursday, literally some people came along today. I feel a bit sorry for the Cameo, having gone to the effort of arranging the second showing. Perhaps as many as 30 people filled the auditorium, and four of them were our man in black, me, Peter Hawkins and Mrs Peter. chdot and I had a quick (as in drunk, not as in made!) coffee before the film.
I loved it for its celebratory theme. I don't go to the cinema very often at all, so when I do I like to forget about lighting techniques, camera angles, edits, soundtrack choices and so on, and let it all wash over me. I found the very last scene really quite emotional.
I have to add that the Cameo has the best seats of any cinema I've ever been to, and Gary Fisher looks an awful lot like Les Claypool these days.
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Only one of these people is in the film -
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Saw it today and found it very interesting and moving though a bit scattergun. Load of heroes featured - Carlton Reid, John Grimshaw, and what a mensch Chris Boardman is. I don't follow sports cycling at all so a lot of the athletes and events were new to me, and looked as though they inject a bit of cycling oxygen into the nation's blood. A fairly hopeful documentary.
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Should have been prompted to get over to matinee to swell numbers then.
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