Cycle Madness at the Rio
Posted on Saturday 16 June 2007 by Nick Bloom
Saturday 30 June 14.15
Cycle Racing Madness:
To celebrate the 2007 Tour de France coming to London, Friend of the Rio and keen cyclist Sean Singh-Marlowe curates a special programme of films.
LONDON - HOLYHEAD (PG)
(UK 1964) 25m. Ray Pascoe collection.
The longest one day cycle race in the UK. Marble Arch, London was the starting point. Forty riders faced a 5am start and a 278 mile slog to Holyhead. After 11 hours, 47 minutes, Albert Hitchin was first to cross the line with team mate Billy Holmes.
+ POUR UN MAILLOT JAUNE (PG)
(France 1965) dir. Claude Lelouch 25m.
Recognised as one of the best films made about the Tour, Pour Un Maillot Jaune has everything that the Tour was in the 60’s - a carnival atmosphere, streams of cars and riders cheered on by adoring roadside fans. A loving testimony to the enduring appeal of the world’s greatest bike race.
+ THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (15)
(UK 2007) dir. Douglas Mackinnon 102m.
The remarkable true story of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree. In 1993, as an unemployed amateur, Obree broke the world one-hour record on a bike of his own revolutionary design, which he constructed out of scrap metal and parts of a washing machine.
+ intro from Ray Pascoe
£6
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