CC Film Fest, Day 3

COMO CYCO FILM FESTIVAL DAY 3!!!

Welcome back, cycling filmsters....I hope you are enjoying this film fest more than I'm enjoying my conference.  Right about now I'm sitting through another boring lecture on "Cycling Blog Management, The Art of Monetizing" while you get to watch more cycling movies.  I hope you realize how lucky you are!

Ok - let's get to it.  Today's theme is 'the rough and tumble life of the roadie' or what could also have been called 'the power of the moustache....;

Our Feature Film of the day is none other than American Flyers (1985). (Yeah - you knew you were waiting for this one....well here it is!)  Tomatometer: 60% (REALLY?)  Starring Kevin "pre-tetonka" Costner sporting a nice porn-stache, Rae Dawn Chong, David Marshall Grant and Alexandra Paul...who may take her shirt off in this if memory serves......At any rate, the tag line is "They're four one-of-a-kind people taking a chance....and going after a dream that will change their lives forever."  My God, I wish movies today inspired such poetry.

Clip:

Today's Sweet Short Film is brought to us by the Cycling Inquisition blog.  If you are not familiar with this blog, it truly is a must read.  At any rate, he brings to us a tale of professional cyclist Michel Zanoli who had some anger issues, and many years ago, punched American Davis Phinney in the nose during a sprint and gave him a Hitler moustache comprised of his own blood, which we see in this clip as Phinney tells Greg LeMond the whole sordid tale.

Don't let this happen to you.  If you are frustrated enough you want to give someone a Hitler moustache, just remember....who was the last person you saw with a Hitler moustache?  Exactly...Hitler.  And he was bad.  I know Charlie Chaplin had that moustache first, but Hitler had it last....and we don't need anymore like him.  So don't punch people.

Pedal on!

CC Film Fest Day 2

Welcome Back to the COMO CYCO Film Festival, Day 2. 

Today, the theme is the freedom of the bike messenger....oh what a lucky fellow he is.......let's trade in our three piece suits for a ten speed and the streets.....let's no longer be separated from Kevin Bacon by six degrees....

Today's Feature Presentation Clip:  Quicksilver (1986).  Tomatometer: 8% (ouch)....(watch out for a skinny Laurence Fishburne and that cute brunette from that 80's TV show Square Pegs)...

Today's Sweet Short Film brings us a documentary of a truly epic messenger of the early 90's.....his name..."Special Ed"....he is a thrill-seeker, he is armored.....he is a thinker...he's a sperm dispenser....he's figuring out how to ride across an ocean......and look out ladies...he's available!


Pedal on!

CC Film Fest Day 1

Welcome to the COMO CYCO Film Fest, Day 1. 

Before we get started, I should say a few things.  First of all, there exists in our society, a great dearth of high quality cycling-related film.  I realize that this statement requires a disclaimer with some specified exclusion criteria for what I'm considering "high quality."

Exclusion criteria:
1) Any film featuring a fixed-gear riding club riding fixies from one city to another while trying to emote  epicness.  To those films I say this.  "You're riding a fixed gear bike between two cities.  Welcome to the year 1887.  It was necessary then, now it's not.  It was never epic.  Stop filming yourselves."
2) Any film by macaframa.
3) Any music video touted to be a short film which features Jared Leto or the Flaming Lips.
4) Any non-COMO themed rides (yes I'm biased - but I don't want to see anymore bare Portland asses or tweed rides.)
5) Any MASH film.
6) Any non Danny MacAskill trick bike film.

Secondly, I obviously cannot show you full length, or even truly "High Quality" bicycle films.  Come on....this is a cheap-ass blog.  I'm not even getting paid for this shit.  Therefore, each day I will give you the name and a clip for a cycling-related feature film and it's respective RottenTomatoes.com rating.  Then, you can leave your place of COMO CYCO readership, ride your sweet-ass Huffy down to the nearest Movie Gallery, rent said film, then ride to the store, load up on pork rinds, ride home, pop your movie into the DVD player, crawl into your Snuggie and pretend like you're in some campy art-cinema like RagTag.  After the clip for the feature film, I will give you another short film, full of cycling sweetness (or more-likely completely devoid of sweetness) of my choosing.

Today's theme is 'a cyclist wronged' and brings you two tales of love and loss of bicycles....
Enjoy!

Today's Feature Film Trailer:  Beijing Bicycle (2002). PG-13.  Foreign.  Tomatometer: 62%



Today's Sweet short film:  Broken Pinky Promise:

Broken Pinky Promise - watch more funny videos

Pedal on!