Cycling films - reprise

[spazzdog]

I know theres an old thread out there, but thought I'd start a new one since there are so many new-ish folks here and lots from other countries where ther might be some films we've not heard of.

My List:

Breaking Away - a very young Dennis Quaid
American Flyers - Kevin Costner
2 Seconds - french subtitled, woman mountain bike racer, pretty good film
Red Light Go - documentary abt NYC bike messengers & ally cat racing
The Hard Road - documentary about 1st year pro cycling team (men)
Pro - documentary about pros during 20th Wachovia USPRO Championships
Quicksilver - Kevin Bacon

What are yours? I gotta update my Netflix queue :cool:

spazz

[papaver]

A sunday in hell, the best documentary about Paris Roubaix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5a_H4k9sc

Les Triplettes de Belleville (triplets of belleville), a great cartoon about the TdF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLemVF3cIVM

Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert, a very funny movie about a pro cyclist who won one important race, and then gets caught taking doping...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36LE2LJ0zs

[crazycanuck]

Just updating my bigpond queue. :)

I think i saw American Flyers many many many moons ago...

[Thorn]

Parpaillon -- a 1993 French made-for TV production. The English translation is "Up and Down" A silly farce. If you spend any time with cyclists it is hysterically funny (OK, maybe it wasn't but the movie that shares the DVD was so dry, so avant garde as to have me questioning why I watched it that I found the cycling short to be hysterical.)

Rentable from Netflix. Subtitled, but it is a physical/visual comedy so that there is very little text.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105100/synopsis

[jobob]

A sunday in hell, the best documentary about Paris Roubaix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5a_H4k9sc

Oooh funny you should mention this!

It's being shown next Sunday, Aug. 9 at 2 pm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco. (I went & posted about it in the CA thread ---> here (http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?p=451386#post451386))

I smell a road trip (or a BART trip). :cool:




Les Triplettes de Belleville (triplets of belleville), a great cartoon about the TdF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLemVF3cIVM

I love that movie! :)

[redrhodie]

Here's my favorite:

http://www.amazon.com/Eddy-Merckx-Course-Greatest-Earth/dp/B000G5TFF0

My lbs used to get all the tours and classics on video, but now with versus and youtube, etc, they're not bothering. I was really hoping they'd get the new George Hincapie documentary. Anyone seen it?

"Sunday in Hell" is great.

[Eden]

Don't dismiss this one out of hand just because its animated.
It is a rather charming story of a fictional Vuelta and family relationships
Nasu: Summer in Andalucia
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/nasu-summer-in-andalusia

(I have a DVD copy, but I first watched it on You-Tube - interestingly enough the translation on the You-Tube copy is much, much better)

[BianchiGem]

Overcoming, the csc team film is great, also road to paris documenting the US Postal team in thwe runup to the tour de france is pretty cool.

new ones would have to be road to roubaix, i was literally moved to tears when i watched this at the london bicycle film festival. a great dvd with awesome soundtrack.

[PinkBike]

le velo - french with subtitles
hell on wheels - excellent documentary following t-mobile
all scott cody's films - tour baby, tour baby part deux, cobbles baby - a fan's perspective on le tour and paris-roubaix. i think the opening of part deux is the most powerful cycling sequence i've EVER seen
the flying scotsman - gram obree and the world hour record on his unconventional bike
the six day bicycle races - interesting stuff, i had no idea how big this was back then

+1 to
overcoming
triplets of belleville
road to paris
road to roubaix

i watch ALL the above constantly, whenever there's no racing on.