David Street’s account of the Scottish cyclist’s attempt at the land-speed record engages without quite capturing the man
Director David Street wields his own camera on this no-nonsense documentary about cycling hero Graeme Obree. It’s a celebration of British maverick eccentricity, showing the Scottish cyclist, at 47, preparing himself to compete in the human-powered land speed record in Nevada in 2013. What he’s riding – and what we see him developing at some length, in his kitchen and elsewhere – isn’t your average bike, more a kind of hard, coffin-like pod that Obree rides while totally enclosed, face down. Constituent parts, in the R&D phase at least, include some old rollerblades and part of a used saucepan.
Street doesn’t quite make a gripping narrative out of Obree’s mission, and as a character study, the film seems to reveal its subject in accidental flashes, rather than by...
Director David Street wields his own camera on this no-nonsense documentary about cycling hero Graeme Obree. It’s a celebration of British maverick eccentricity, showing the Scottish cyclist, at 47, preparing himself to compete in the human-powered land speed record in Nevada in 2013. What he’s riding – and what we see him developing at some length, in his kitchen and elsewhere – isn’t your average bike, more a kind of hard, coffin-like pod that Obree rides while totally enclosed, face down. Constituent parts, in the R&D phase at least, include some old rollerblades and part of a used saucepan.
Street doesn’t quite make a gripping narrative out of Obree’s mission, and as a character study, the film seems to reveal its subject in accidental flashes, rather than by...
- 4/3/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
When she joined Creative Scotland as Director, Film And Media, last summer, Natalie Usher already had an intimate involvement with several of the films that Creative Scotland was backing.
As a senior film lawyer in the Film & TV Group at Lee & Thompson, Usher had been working on both the opening and closing films at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival: Robert Carlyle’s The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Scott Graham’s Iona.
“For me, this is personally a very interesting and exciting festival because a number of films I worked on as a lawyer, Creative Scotland also invested in and now they are here.”
Usher has come into her job at Creative Scotland at a time when the Scottish film industry looks set for a major resurgence.
Plans for a large scale Scottish studio are edging slow but surely forward. Meanwhile, at the Scottish Film Summit during Eiff earlier this week, Scottish culture...
As a senior film lawyer in the Film & TV Group at Lee & Thompson, Usher had been working on both the opening and closing films at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival: Robert Carlyle’s The Legend Of Barney Thomson and Scott Graham’s Iona.
“For me, this is personally a very interesting and exciting festival because a number of films I worked on as a lawyer, Creative Scotland also invested in and now they are here.”
Usher has come into her job at Creative Scotland at a time when the Scottish film industry looks set for a major resurgence.
Plans for a large scale Scottish studio are edging slow but surely forward. Meanwhile, at the Scottish Film Summit during Eiff earlier this week, Scottish culture...
- 6/22/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
New additions to programme include Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward, Hector starring Peter Mullan and music documentary Big Gold Dream.
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced a number of Scottish titles for its upcoming edition, running June 17-28.
Alongside the previously announced Opening and Closing Galas of The Legend of Barney Thomson and Iona, this year’s festival will also screen Jake Gavin’s Hector, starring Peter Mullan, Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which will be followed by an exclusive live gig from singer/songwriter Vic Godard and friends.
Other Scottish titles include The Shammasian Brothers’ Pyramid Texts, Colin Kennedy’s directorial debut feature Swung, Martin Radich’s Norfolk, Talulah Riley’s writer/directorial debut feature Scottish Mussel, Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get and Vicky Matthews’ documentary Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace.
Joining Gillan...
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has announced a number of Scottish titles for its upcoming edition, running June 17-28.
Alongside the previously announced Opening and Closing Galas of The Legend of Barney Thomson and Iona, this year’s festival will also screen Jake Gavin’s Hector, starring Peter Mullan, Karen Gillan’s directorial short debut Coward and the world premiere of music documentary Big Gold Dream, which will be followed by an exclusive live gig from singer/songwriter Vic Godard and friends.
Other Scottish titles include The Shammasian Brothers’ Pyramid Texts, Colin Kennedy’s directorial debut feature Swung, Martin Radich’s Norfolk, Talulah Riley’s writer/directorial debut feature Scottish Mussel, Karen Guthrie’s The Closer We Get and Vicky Matthews’ documentary Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace.
Joining Gillan...
- 5/19/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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