Originally Posted by
steelbikeguy
Cycling Goes to the Flicks
Roger provides his opinions on a number of movies that deal with bike racing or bikes in general. He likes Triplets of Belleville, an animation that covers European racing in the post-war years and has little good to say about two movies from the USA. Sure, American Flyers is only a good movie if you ignore any scene without a bike, but Breaking Away is a good story where a lot of the bike stuff should be ignored (at at least don't look too closely).
That's my editorializing... go out and watch/judge these movies for yourself!
Steve in Peoria
Wow, great article!
I don't know most of the titles.
I watched
La Course en Tete on the screen, Tokyo, when Eddy Merckx was invited by Shimano.
After the movie, talk show and autograph session were held.
It was 1985.
I missed the road-show of
Breaking Away, oh sxxt.
A friend from NYC had VHS of
A Sunday in Hell.
We enjoyed so much at his home.
my collection