Sheffield Doc/Fest presents... Tour de Cinema at the Showroom 18
Vive le Tour
Dir – Louis Malle
Country - France
Duration – 18 MINS
Year - 1962
Rating – U
Louis Malle’s vivid account of the 1962 Tour de France features rural French settings, rabid fans, and cyclists in various stages of exhaustion as their endurance test continues.
from trike to bike
Dir – Andy Burns
Country – United Kingdom
Duration – 4 MINS
Year - 2014
Rating – TBC
From Trike to Bike unearths a wealth of film footage from the Yorkshire Film Archive, capturing the joys of our personal cycling journeys. From our very first tricyle to the nervous wobbles of the two wheeler, cycling proficiency tests, local road races and competitions, and Yorkshire’s own champion rider, Beryl Burton, the team at YFA have been delving into their archive collections to create a moving montage of cycling memories. You’ll also catch glimpses of familiar Yorkshire landmarks - the towns, cities, villages and landscapes that mark out the Yorkshire route of Le Tour.
velorama
Dir – Daisy Asquith
Country – United Kingdom
Duration – 60 MINS
Year - 2014
Rating – TBC
Velorama, is a specially-commissioned new feature-length documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Daisy Asquith. Created using over 100 different titles from the BFI National Archive (including footage from Mitchell & Kenyon, Topical Budget, COI and British Council), and footage from the amateur and home movie collections housed at the Yorkshire Film Archive, it shows a Century of the Bicycle on film, from the invention of the modern bike to the gruelling pursuit of Le Tour, all set to dreamy electronic music by Bill Nelson and the legendary Yorkshire tones of Chumbawumba. Velorama will take you on an unmissable two-wheeled journey.
Tour de Cinema was commissioned by Yorkshire Festival 2014 with support from Arts Council England, Yorkshire Water, Welcome to Yorkshire and Yorkshire Local Authorities.
Plus more surprise cycling films!
See https://sheffdocfest.com/view/tourdecinema for the full Tour de Cinema schedule
- Duration
- 120 mins
Explore
True Stories: narrative, music, and neurodiversity
Women’s History Month: f-rated films at Showroom this March
It Happened One Night: a Valentine’s classic celebrates 90 years
Beyond LGBTQ+ History Month at Showroom Cinema
LGBTQ+ History Month 2024 at Showroom Cinema
Zone of Interest review