There are a handful of good bicycling movies: “Breaking Away,” “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” “The Triplets of Belleville” are a few that come to mind. Worth probably a theater admission of (an inflation adjusted) $9.00 when they were released, $2.50 for a video rental today and even potentially less on Netflix.
But $20 for a bicycling movie!?
That’s the price of admission to “Pure Visual Adrenaline!,” which is being shown tonight at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival, an account of the local High Road-HTC racing team’s campaign to win the 2009 Tour de France. It uses a high definition camera, according to the Festival’s blurb on-line, to give a feel for the drama, both on the road as well as behind the scenes.
Sorry friends at the SLO Bicycle Coalition, who’ll get a piece of the door. I’ll wait for it to come out on video.
Well, you can always buy a festival pass and have that ultimate Hollywood experience of watching the conferring of a lifetime achievement award to…….(ta da!) Greg Kinnear. (I guess Rainn Wilson wasn’t available.)
