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  • Started 13 years ago by chdot
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  1. chdot
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    "
    As one would expect, there was a strong local presence in Berlin, including Christian Petzold's excellent Barbara. An understated yet absorbing affair, this is set in East Germany in 1980. Having applied for an exit visa to the West, a Berlin doctor is punished with "exile" to a small country town. While she plans her escape, the local doctor does everything he can to please her. But is his attention kindness, love or surveillance? Petzold's muse Nina Hoss is as brilliant as ever, making aloofness sexy and enigmatic; around her, the director builds tension out of the most mundane things as a bicycle ride and a canteen lunch.

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    Film review by Demetrios Matheou in Sunday Herald.

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  2. crowriver
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    Still below from the Bulgarian film Селянинът с Колелото (A Peasant on a Bicycle), 1974, starring Georgi Georgiev-Getz. It has been suggested (rather sarcastically) that I resemble the protagonist. No such romantic episodes have ensued as with this character, however! For plot details etc. see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selyaninat_s_Koleloto

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  3. Smudge
    Member

    Don't forget James Coburn beng a bike thief in "The Great Escape"!

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  4. BikeFan
    Member

    http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/

    Not quite sure where I originally found the link. If it was here, second time around might attract new viewers ;o)

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  5. wee folding bike
    Member

    Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.

    http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/rt_ipad/title/tt0040522

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  6. Min
    Member

    Which is the one with male nudity in the first 5 minutes? That's the only bit I remember. It was definately about cycling though.

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  7. Min
    Member

    I've remembered, it's American Flyers.

    There is Project A which features an awesome bike chase (and Jackie almost getting killed by falling off a tower and landing on his head).

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  8. chdot
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    https://sites.google.com/site/cyclingfilms

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  9. gembo
    Member

    Breaking Away - great movie

    won oscar for original screenplay 1979 [various other nominations], BAftas, Golden Globes.

    Belleville Rendezvous - cracking, silent animation, french Sylvan Chomet the director then moved to Edinburgh and did The Illusionist [no cycling]. He has left North BErwick now as picnics spoiled by changeable weather.

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  10. chdot
    Admin

    One of the best -

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  11. chdot
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    Not always convincing - spot the mistake!

    http://www.ovguide.com/video/breaking-away-chasing-a-truck-922ca39ce10036ba0e11c2156cb1e790

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  12. chdot
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    Another classic clip -

    http://movieclips.com/aULP-breaking-away-movie-sabotage-italian-style

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  13. Cyclingmollie
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    What's the film in which Italian children only have handlebars and pretend to be cyclists? And there must be a Hitchcock with a bike.

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  14. gembo
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    Jules et Jim by Francois Truffaud has a cycling sequence.

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  15. minus six
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    A good double bill --

    Tilda Swinton cycling right round the Berlin Wall back in 1988:

    Cycling The Frame
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532289/

    and the follow up where she repeats the same bike trip post-reunification, in 2009:

    The Invisible Frame
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532413/

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  16. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    The bike sequence in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

    Doesn't a bike feature in Peewee's Big Adventure?

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  17. amir
    Member

    The Pope's Toilet (El Baño del Papa) from Uruguay

    Protoganists smuggle goods over the border using bicycles.

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  18. crowriver
    Member

    "ET go home".

    On a flying BMX.

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  19. chdot
    Admin

    "Tilda Swinton cycling right round the Berlin Wall"

    http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/movies/story.cfm?content=184151

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  20. minus six
    Member

    Tilda Swinton cycling right round the Berlin Wall

    You can pick up a dvd with both films on it for about a tenner, on ebay.

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  21. cc
    Member

    Jour de fête.

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  22. wee folding bike
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    And soon the darkness.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065398/

    Posted 13 years ago #

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