Got this in the email, the Roubaix race (“The Hell Of The North”) is a seriously brutal race over cobble stones, up hills, usually involving blood, mud, tears, and many of the entrants don’t even finish. All of which make for a great movie! Go watch it free!

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Outdoor movie night: A Sunday In Hell
enjoy the 1976 paris-roubaix bicycle race under the stars
Host:
Bikes Not Bombs Retail Bicycle Shop
Date:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time:
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:
Bikes Not Bombs Retail Bike Shop backyard
18 Bartlett sq.
Jamaica Plain, MA
Phone:
617-522-0226
Description:
(Rescheduled from Oct. 15)
You’re invited to bundle up and sit outside with us to watch this 1977 documentary of the ‘76 Paris-Roubaix bicycle race. This 111-minute film shows the gritty cobblestone-ridden race in great detail, focusing on greats such as Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser, and other heroes. We’ll be screening this in the backyard of the bike shop at 18 Bartlett Square in Jamaica Plain. Bring your own blanket, a chair or something you’ll be comfortable sitting on for a couple hours in the cool fall air, and a mug for hot cider.

This should be fun, has been in the past…check it out.

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Friday May 22 Movie: (Pee Wee’s Big adventure) starts at dusk in the courtyard of 383 Centre St. JP, all are welcome, yes all. FREE Harpoon, PBR or Highlife when that runs out. There’s a BBQ too, I imagine that’ll be happening? Sorry for the short notice… have a good one.

There will be a short film about Metro Pedal Power made by a Harvard Grad student being screened TONIGHT. For those of you not in the know, Metro Pedal Power is the new name (to go with the new ownership) of the New Amsterdam Project. They are the really cool people who deliver stuff in those massive and awesome cargo bikes.

The screening will be at the Carpenter Center (Harvard Film Archive bldg on Quincy st in Cambridge) at 7pm along with other student film shorts. should be fun.
7pm tonight – FREE

The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock, is seeking extras to work tomorrow
(Thursday, April 17th) in Rockport, MA.
Looking for men over 18 with bikes and cycling gear. If interested please
email your name, phone number and a picture to theproposalcasting@gmail.com
Union and nonunion : ONLY MEN PHYSICALLY FIT.

Thats you know something, I just don’t know what.

EMMANUEL’S GIFT – film showing
Thursday April 10th
7pm

Bikes Not Bombs’ newest international project gets underway in April, to setting up an entire bicycle workshop within wheelchair reach, to employ a full staff of disabled mechanics in Ghana. The project is a partnership between Bikes Not Bombs and a foundation in Ghana created by an extraordinary man, Emmanuel Yeboah. The documentary Emmanuel’s Gift is narrated by Oprah Winfrey and by following Emmanuel’s struggles and achievements, it gives a background for this new project. In late April Bikes Not Bombs will send a shipment of nearly 500 donated bicycles to get the project started. The 40 foot shipping container will be put on the ground, with doors and windows cut in the metal sides so that it becomes part of the structure of the new workshop.

Both introducing and following the film, we’ll have a discussion with David Branigan and Carl Kurz. David is a BNB shop mechanic who has 3 years previous experience in Ghana in the Peace Corps, and he’ll spend the first five months as technical trainer for this project. Carl is BNB’s founder and International Programs Director.

Emmanuel Yeboah was born with a severely deformed leg. The stigma of disability is strong in Ghana, and his father abandoned the family. Emmanuel’s mother enrolled him in school and taught him that he deserved the same opportunities as everyone else, but when she fell ill he left school and took up shining shoes on the street to support the family. After his mother’s death left Emmanuel an orphan he began a personal campaign to spread the empowering philosophy he learned from her. From foreign aid workers he heard of a foundation to help disabled athletes and he wrote a letter requesting a bicycle, with a dream of cycling across Ghana to raise awareness and respect for the disabled. Emmanuel received the bike and made the cross-country trip, which led to more opportunities: a trip to the US to compete in paralympics, a prosthetic leg, a second cross-Ghana bicycle trip, recognition from government officials, a new law in Ghana mandating improved access for disabled people, and lastly the EEFSA foundation to create employment and sports opportunities for disabled Ghanaians. It is this foundation which has partnered with Bikes Not Bombs. We’re excited to show this film on the big screen here at BNB, and discuss the upcoming project launch!

Got this little gem today. Looks like a good time.

We all know that bikes, trash picking and Canada go hand in hand in, well, hand. And, since we here at The Brattle are committed to bringing our audience the latest and greatest in cinematic debauchery, we are presenting, for a limited time only, MONKEY WARFARE.

Now, a bit about the film:

Friday, April 4th – Monday, April 7th
Monkey Warfare
(2006) dir Reginald Harkema w/Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz
[75 min]

Since receiving grand acclaim at last year’s Independent Film Festival of Boston, MONKEY WARFARE has failed to find a U.S. distributor, not one to be stopped by such a fact, we have gone ahead and negotiated with the filmmaker to offer this premiere run of one of the most endearing of revolutionary films.

Dan (McKellar) and Linda (Wright) are a couple of forty-something ex-radicals who ride their bikes everywhere, live off the grid and maintain their pot and vinyl record habits by picking trash and selling their finds on eBay. When their usual pot dealer is busted, Dan runs across a new one, Susan (Litz) – who happens to be pretty, young, and impressionable. A sort-of love triangle develops between the three but, when Susan uncovers the secret revolutionary past of her new clients, she becomes inspired and heads down a path that has the potential to upset everyone’s lives more than any romantic entanglement could. An excellent film with three great performances, a truly outstanding soundtrack and a witty, playful script that stands above most of the quirky, perky indie films that play every year in film festivals. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at The Independent Film Festival of Boston 2007! A complete listing of the show-times can be found at www.brattlefilm.org