The Cycling FIlm thread

[Sigmund Fraud]

A thread for the movie and documentary delights of all things bicycle.

Lets start with some 80's TdF porn.

Hinault vs Lemond, 1986 Tour de France: Slaying the badger - the greatest tour of all?

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

and The High Life: Granada Documentary on Robert Millar on the 1985 season. Peugeot porn, big hair, Steve Winwood, atrocious team tactics and infighting, amateur hour mechanicals, no helmets and Alan Peiper talking about tits.

Viewers used to the stage managed slickness of Team Sky should look away now

 

[youbeauty]

A Sunday in Hell 1977 film about the Paris-Roubaix sufferfest

 

[DownwardDog]

Overcoming. A curious documentary about CSC's 2004 TdF effort. There's quite a few strange vignettes that illustrate the forced intimacy of life on a pro cycling team. Like when Bjarne Riis is advising Carlos Sastre how often to wank.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Overcoming. A curious documentary about CSC's 2004 TdF effort. There's quite a few strange vignettes that illustrate the forced intimacy of life on a pro cycling team. Like when Bjarne Riis is advising Carlos Sastre how often to wank.

Saw it in the cinema. Riis came over like a sinister Dr Mabuse like figure. He caused the crash with Bobby Julich and then bollocked him for it and his treatment of Ivan Basso in the AdH hotel room after coming second the LA was very weird, Basso:I think second is ok? I did ok yes? | Riis (stroking Basso on the back whispers):No, Ivan, it is not ok, its not ok.

Well worth missing IMHO

 

[Ted Striker]

A Sunday in Hell 1977 film about the Paris-Roubaix sufferfest

Got me into cycling, this one

 

[The Boy]

A Sunday in Hell 1977 film about the Paris-Roubaix sufferfest

From the same director:

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

The central time trail bit with Ole Ritter gunning it down the seafront in the TT is awesome

BMX bandits from 1983 - Nicole Kidman before the botox face ossification years. Could be a stunt kid getting that wicked air?

 

[Fez909]

The Triplets of Belleville

 

[friedaweed]

 

[youbeauty]

Only tangentially related to cycling but this is heartbreaking:

 

[Part 2]

 

[hash tag]

The Obree film, The Flying Scot, a biopic based on his book is well worth a look.

 

[Sirena]

A gentler, more ethereal vibe...

 

[hash tag]

Where has people's imagination/memory gone? How come this is missing ( sorry for poor linkie), is this one of the sexiest bike fims ever

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[laptop]

Les bicyclettes de Belsize. I kid you not.

 

[Sirena]

And Soon The Darkness: a film about two girls on holiday in France. Then one goes missing....

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

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Les bicyclettes de Belsize. I kid you not.

I have that on DVD. Its whimsical fun.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

And Soon The Darkness: a film about two girls on holiday in France. Then one goes missing....

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

Look at the pedigree of this - Brian Clemens (Professionals) and Terry Nation (the Daleks, original 70's Survivors)...and Michelle Dotrice, Mrs Frank Spencer / Edward Woodward.

 

[Sirena]

Look at the pedigree of this - Brian Clemens (Professionals) and Terry Nation (the Daleks, original 70's Survivors)...and Michelle Dotrice, Mrs Frank Spencer / Edward Woodward.

I remember seeing it.

It doesn't rate very highly on the Imdb rateometer but I thought it was quite a dramatic/spooky film...

 

[Virtual Blue]

I ditched my BMX for a race bike because of this film.

 

[Chilli.s]

The Triplets of Belleville is also called Belleville Rendez-Vous, great film.

 

[Part 2]

Joe Kid on a Stingray is like a bmx version of Dowtown and The Z Boys. Can't find the full film online unfortunately.

 

[Part 2]

And Klunkerz definitely needs a mention.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

Premier is this week for a new film about cyclocross, 'For the love of mud'. We'll see.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

I ditched my BMX for a race bike because of this film.

One half of the twin pillars of hollywood cycling movies and featuring an early pre dances with wolves shot of Costners arse (sounds like a medical condition). The bikes were made by "specialized" who apparently went on to be a very successful bike manufacturer. And Eddy Merckx has a cameo! And the racing isn't totally shit!


And then theres Breaking Away; won an actual oscar for best screenplay and is a decent coming of age film in its own right. Dennis Quaid, the tall one from Home Alone and Rorschach from Watchmen support Larry David's dad in law and Dennis Christopher - who was going to be bigger than Jesus. The Little 500 race at the end is now the stuff of legend.

 

[Gramsci]

Black Cyclone: Africa and its Diaspora’s Love for the Bicycle | Barbican

From country gravel paths to Tour De France tarmac, this is a series of films exploring and applauding Black people and their attachment to cycling.

www.barbican.org.uk

Friend of mine curating this. Looks interesting. Not until next year.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

MacAskill rides across a sodding tennis net...