Preview: Cycling Through Cinema at the Brattle

Boston Bike Film Festival
Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
Friday, October 19-Saturday, October 20, 7:00
$20 in advance / $25 at the door
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Full schedule

It's hard riding a bicycle in this city. Even though Boston's mayor just discovered bikes, cyclists have to face numerous road hazards. This year's Boston Bike Film Festival will give bike-lovers the opportunity to revel in their chosen means of travel, and it will also give those who are afraid to ride their bikes around here a chance to see what they're missing. Plus, Redbones and Harpoon will provide the food and booze in the evenings, and all proceeds from the festival will benefit Mass Bike.

Each evening will include a series of shorts, followed by a feature. Tonight, the feature is 24-Solo, a documentary in which Chris Eatough faces down rugged terrain and nasty weather in an attempt to win another 24-hour mountain bike race. Saturday night's feature film will be The Flying Scotsman, a more Hollywood movie that dramatizes the life of Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller), a Scottish cyclist who broke records with a homemade bike.

And, of course, on Saturday afternoon, the Brattle is showing Pee Wee's Big Adventure about Pee Wee's attempts to rescue his precious bike.

Logo from the Boston Bike Film Festival.