Jul
28
Boston Bicycle Film Festival??
July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
My host site, Bostonbiker.org, has posted the schedule for the eighth annual [international] Bicycle Film Festival, which is coming to Boston from August 14 to 17th. Some new stuff, some old stuff.
What’s confusing is there is also a fourth annual Boston Bike Film Festival, taking place October 17th and 18th.
No criticism is intended to be […]
Mar
23
The bitty 500
March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ah, the joys of “Breaking Away.” It was on TV tonight and I stayed up too late to watch it. As always, I mulled over whether the bikes in the college race were fixed gears or freewheels with coaster brakes. And yes, Dave Stoller does have his bike in the little ring when he’s supposedly […]
Feb
24
Oscars
February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I gave up on watching the Oscars a few years ago. Probably that’s partly to do with the fact that I have no one to watch them with anymore, and no Oscars pool to try to win. (I like to think I’m pretty good at winning, thanks.) But tonight I’m watching. Why?
I love Tilda Swinton. […]
Jan
8
Top flicks
January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
These come from my Netflix queue, because I don’t seem to go to the movies anymore:
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
The Conformist (1970)
Irma Vep (1996)
Volver (2006)
Days of Glory (2006)
The Lives of Others (2007)
Wow, I’m not much of a patriot. Those films are from France, Italy, Spain, and Germany.
How about the worst of the year? (But I […]
Apr
17
The Obree movie
April 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This evening I was able to attend a preview of “Flying Scotsman,” the biographical film about Graeme Obree, Scottish cyclist and hour record breaker, based on his own autobiography. Having read his book a few years earlier, I was excited to see what would happen in translation to the big screen, and besides, a cycling […]
Apr
2
“Il Conformista”
April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Finally I’m back on the film wagon, after months of trying to catch up on the few TV shows I actually watch.
The new DVD of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 film “The Confirmist” is pretty interesting. I have to admit that it took me a little while to figure out what language it was supposed to be […]
Dec
30
Charlton Heston made some damn weird choices
December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I love Netflix, but I never do know what it will bring me next. Probably because I made up my Q-U-E-U-E (I love that word) so long ago. Today I watched “The Omega Man,” another astonishing piece of crap about a post-apocalyptic future in which a beefy Heston bared his hairy chest and rubbed his […]
