Events

Schools Launch

Festival Party

Belleville Rendezvous
(Les Triplettes de Belleville)

Sylvain Chomet, France, 2003, 80 mins

This lovingly hand-drawn cycling adventure has a richness of detail and a plot so comically way-out you can honestly say there’s nothing like it in all cinema. Since his boyhood, Champion and his doting mum dream of him winning the Tour de France. But when Champion is kidnapped and shipped off to Belleville (a.k.a New York), the guy’s mother and their fat dog Bruno ride to the rescue. Extra points to anyone who spots the hidden references to Mickey Mouse in the film. Huge fun.

Bike Shorts Charity Screening
In aid of Leicester Royal Infirmary Oncology Ward

Jour de Fete

Tati’s quintessential and lanky French postman, Francoise, makes an intelligent, pointless and slapstick comedy of French rural life while dreaming of bringing modern knowhow to traditional ways. In the process he beats the best passing Tour riders, falls into duck ponds and delivers the mail.

If you’re a fan of Stan Laurel or Peter Sellers, you must see this feelgood film. It’s guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

NSPCC Charity Matinee Screening: ET

Steven Spielberg, USA, 1982, 115 mins

Aliens on Bikes!! Spielberg's personal, heart-warming sci-fi masterpiece loved by film audiences the world over and some of the best pesky kids on BMX bikes saving the planet since BMX Bandits. It's scarcely a bike film as such, but who can resist ET dressed as Mother Theresa and all the thematic hallmarks of wallowing, indulgent Hollywood at its best - discovery, rescue, escape & biblical references to boot. Four Oscars and a permanent place in the list of family favourite films.

This is a charity screening to support the NSPCC Big Bike Ride on Sunday 29th June (Abbey to Watermead Park). Donations welcome.

We Own The Streets

 

We Are Traffic

Ted White, USA, 1999

Documents the San Francisco Critical Mass campaigns in the late '90s.

Don’t take your cycle activism sitting down!

Lesbian Grandmothers From Mars

Keith Wilson, USA, 2004, 71 mins

An out-of-this-world story about a down-to-earth lesbian couple who got on their bicycles and rode America to rally support for same-sex marriage. From San Francisco to New York City, Elisia and Carrie Ross-Stone -- two married lesbian grandmothers (from Mars, Pennsylvania!) ride across mountain ranges, through deserts  and across prairies, as they struggle through the mud-slinging of election year politics, hateful protests and even death threats to show America that they're not alien life forms.

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Tim Burton, USA, 1985, 90 mins

In this remake of Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, Pee-wee’s bicycle – an object he loves more than anything – is stolen. The ensuing ride through a
mythical America of truck-stops, waitresses, and runaway convicts presents a sideways Technicolor look at the world through Tim Burton’s eyes. If
your local bike shop is stocking chrome-fendered beach cruisers, watch this film to understand why.