HOW THE HUMBLE BICYCLE MADE ITS PRESENCE KNOWN IN FILMS

By: Kenji

Late Spring

A selection of notable films in which the noble bicycle has featured prominently

Not on mubi:

Giro d’Italia: the Greatest Show on Earth
A Sunday in Hell

I see Jon K has done a list On Yer Bike (whose title i also initially used, oh well)

Suggestions welcome

Wikipedia: The Bicycle

The Day I Became a Woman

01

Vive le tour

Louis Malle
02

Late Spring

Yasujirô Ozu
03

Berta's Motives

José Luis Guerín
04

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica
05

July

Darezhan Omirbaev
06

School for Postmen

Jacques Tati
07

The Kid with a Bike

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
08

Father and Daughter

Michael Dudok de Wit
09

The Cyclist

Mohsen Makhmalbaf
10

Breaking Away

Peter Yates
11

The Triplets of Belleville

Sylvain Chomet
12

Cycling the Frame

Cynthia Beatt
13

Beijing Bicycle

Wang Xiaoshuai
14

Cyclo

Tran Anh Hung
15

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill
16

Half of Oscar

Manuel Martín Cuenca
17

The Day I Became a Woman

Marzieh Makhmalbaf
18

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Tim Burton
19

Jour de fête

Jacques Tati
20

For a Yellow Jersey

Claude Lelouch
21

Bicycle Sighs

Sion Sono
22

Jules and Jim

François Truffaut
23

The Reader

Stephen Daldry
24

Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton
25

American Flyers

John Badham
26

Il postino

Michael Radford
27

A Woman Is a Woman

Jean-Luc Godard
28

The Sheltering Sky

Bernardo Bertolucci
29

The Lavender Hill Mob

Charles Crichton

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One of the funniest 'bicycle-films' I saw was HECTOR (Stijn Coninx, 1987) with local comic Urbanus. I also remember a comedy with Bourvil: LES CRACKS. The bicycle ("fiets" in Dutch) is also an important presence in OORLOGSWINTER (Winter in Wartime), and also the opening of Donnie Darko and of course Elliott, that other kid with a bike, only here it's his passenger longing for home.

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Kenji

18May12

Have you seen the Merckx Giro d'Italia film i posted here from youtube? What he achieved over several years from 1969 was incredible.
Martinus

18May12

Oh yes, thanks for honouring our national hero! We're all incurably addicted to this sport because of him. I haven't seen it, but IMDB mentions Merckx also in American Flyers. I'll have to look that up.

dust in love

8May12

I really needed this list, thank you once again, Kenji!

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Jon K

5Jan12

Thanks for the shout-out man ;)

Chai Walla

5Jan12

Ooh I'd been considering doing this very thing, but I'm glad a true list-master took up the cause instead. I recommend: 'Quicksilver', 'Up and Down', and 'Hell on Wheels'

Kenji

5Jan12

I've just realised Jon Kennard had done a list a while back that i'd seen at the time! I had a feeling there was such a list.

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