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  1. Kim
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    As part of the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling there is going to be a programme of films.

    I need to have a list of films to suggest to cinemas which will be showing them. Below is a short list of films I have come up with, I would be interested in any thoughts or comments on this list. Other suggestions are also welcome.

    I have an agreement to screen of a new film "Janapar" (http://janapar.com/) which premièred at the Raindance Festival in London and the Filmhouse are interested in. There has been a suggestion that we should screen some "classic Merckx ones" La Course en Tete, Stars and Watercarriers, A Sunday In Hell, of those a quick Google show that A Sunday In Hell has the highest rating, any thoughts? Also Belleville Rendezvous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Triplets_of_Belleville) which looks like it could be fun.

    Obviously films with Lance Armstrong in them are going to be popular at the present time, although there have be some suggestions that he was inspired to do what he has done by the finial scene of ET. This is a film which has to be on the list as it inspired a generation to get on their bikes, it is also a reminder of the days when parents would let their kids just go off on their bikes and have fun.

    I would like to have Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) which is a classic of Italian cinema and worth showing in it own right but also ties in nicely with the EFoC theme of a celebration of the bicycle in all its forms.

    Then of course we should have The Flying Scotsman, could even try to get Obree to introduce it. Following on the Scottish theme Three Legged Horses (http://www.debasers.co.uk/3lh)

    Some films which Google has thrown up but I never heard of:
    Breaking Away (1979) it won an Oscars and a Golden Globe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Away),

    "2 Seconds" French Canadian female downhill mountain biker turns bike courier (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158446/),

    With My Own Two Wheels (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1797545/)

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    Roozi Khe Zan Shodam (The Day I Became a Woman; Iran, 2000 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260332/),

    Fixed City (http://cargocollective.com/ertzuifilm/fixed-city)

    Rockville

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    or a few other films from the http://cargocollective.com/ertzuifilm/ ?

    How about Shay Elliot: Cycle of Betrayal (http://www.thewashingmachinepost.net/betrayal/review.html).

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  2. Wilmington's Cow
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    American Flyers was a Kevin Costner effort.

    Belleville Rendez-Vous is beautiful. The writer and animater, Sylvain Chomet, was based in Edinburgh for a short while (and produced the equally beautiful rendering of Edinburgh in the Illusionist), so you may be able to entice him (I'd go just to hear him speak about the film to be honest!).

    Bit of nostalgia with BMX Bandits?

    How about someone specifically making a 'top-10/20/30/40' films with bikes in show to screen? (actually, I think that's given me citycycling's next vid, woo hoo!)

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  3. Min
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    What was that one with Kevin Costner naked? There was a bit about a "training partner" (a dog which chased them). Don't remember anything else.

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  4. Min
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    American Flyers - that was it. Ta WC.

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  5. Uberuce
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    If there's a short films night, the 'Boy' starring Timothy Spall is a must. Likely to be other candidates in the .cc video archive, but that's the standout for me.

    http://www.citycycling.co.uk/Issue10/Videos3.html

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  6. Kim
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    @Uberuce A collection of shorts like Boy would be a good idea.

    @Wilmington's Cow "Bit of nostalgia with BMX Bandits" would this be your teenage crush on Nicole Kiddman? ;-)

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  7. twinspark
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    How about "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize"?

    Have only seen it once on TV. Seem to have heard the music more often.

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  8. ARobComp
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    There is a great film about riding the continental divide called "ride the divide"

    Recommend checking that out!

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  9. gembo
    Member

    Belleville rendezvous is great.

    Bicycle thieves is a masterpiece of post war social realism. Unemployed man gets job and chance to help his family out of abject poverty. Job is putting up posters and he needs his bike for it. It is stolen. He frantically hunts for the thieves whom he hates. We root for him in the audience. There is a moving revelation at the end. It is good idea to go to an Italian restaurant for a meal afterwards and talk loudly in an idealistic manner. When I saw the film as a young man it was very emotional.

    I recommend both films if you haven't seen them

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  10. wee folding bike
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    Breaking Away is pretty good but you may find yourself eating "Inny" food.

    Cinema Paradiso has bikes in it… Alfredo rides one with Toto on the front and they use one to move the film reels around.

    Matter of Life and Death has a bike near the beginning.

    Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has no bikes that I can remember but it has Anton Walbrook quietly delivering some of the best lines I've ever heard.

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  11. Kim
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    twinspark and ARobComp thanks for those great suggestions, will add them to the list.

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  12. jacquie phelan
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    HOw about Hardihood? It is a hourlong documentary made in 2001 by Nicole Mackinlay Hahn, an Scots American videographer who followed the top downhill mtn bike women of the day...
    I can send a copy if you like. PS Breaking Away is a hit for any generation of rider...a coming-of-age tale set in midwest USA.

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  13. gembo
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    breaking away won peter Yates best director Oscar in 1979

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  14. fimm
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    A Sunday in Hell is available on YouTube! It is very good. I'd pay to see it on a big screen.

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  15. le_soigneur
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    Breaking Away is a classic indy production, a tale of the talented plucky kid who more or less wins the Little 500 track team relay championship single-handed, then road races against the bad russian team who put a pump in his spokes.
    Costner turned up at Le Tour to meet Armstrong once which was a bit of reality-is-stranger-than-fiction.

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  16. Schraedinger
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    Hell on wheels was pretty good - followed a couple of riders through the Tour de France one year. I saw it in the filmhouse before, but can't remember if it was part of a festival
    Hell on Wheel - IMDB

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  17. Jackson Priest
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    I would pay cash money to see The High Life (Granada telly Robert Millar documentary from le 1980s) if you can get a hold of it.

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  18. Kim
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    @Schraedinger there was a Cycling Film Festival at the Filmhouse about 10 years or so ago, I remember seeing Hell on Wheels as part of it. Seeing it again we could play a game of spot the non doper...

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  19. Wilmington's Cow
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    There was a cycling film festival about 3 or 4 or 5 years back. The reason I can remember is I interviewed a squiffy Jacquie Phelan on stage and took part in a debate on Critical Mass after a documentary about the history of the ride on stage in the main screen at the Filmhouse (which was rather unfairly weighted 2:1 against me ;) ).

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  20. Schraedinger
    Member

    @Kim, i think they followed the telekom team so it'd be a pretty easy game!

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  21. Kim
    Member

    LOL

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  22. Kim
    Member

    I have now compiled a list of films I hope to get shown, but don't tell that stop you suggesting more... ;-)

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  23. Arellcat
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    @JacksonP, I have a copy of The High Life. :-)

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  24. sallyhinch
    Member

    Reviving this thread as our lovely local cinema is open to showing a bike film as part of a themed film night. Any new contenders that aren't sports focused? So far Wadjda looks like the best bet (little girl in Saudi Arabia wants a bike). I was also wondering about Bikes Vs. Cars - I gather it's better than its rather confrontational title suggests

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  25. paddyirish
    Member

    Maybe not this

    Maybe for 2019, but Lee Craigie is doing one on the Tour Divide with Rickie Cotter, and Sarah Outen doing one about her trip around the world (funding possible on Kickstarter).

    The IPWR film is pretty good, though with a very sad ending.

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  26. gembo
    Member

    As recommended up thread by wee folding bike. Breaking away is only bike film to win an oscR for best film, or maybe it was best director. Good story lots of rad and indeed track cycling .(not banked, but like indy 500 but for bikes)

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  27. chdot
    Admin

    Just missed on TV -

    http://www.radiotimes.com/news/film/2017-09-20/freeview-film-of-the-day-wednesday-20-september-breaking-away

    (It’s a growing up film, with bikes, rather than ‘sport’.)

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  28. gembo
    Member

    Not on catch up

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  29. chdot
    Admin

    Copyright reasons (probably).

    Posted 7 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/22/why-i-love-breaking-away-quarry

    Posted 7 years ago #

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