The Vintagent Classics: C.C & Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3E2qLY9Rzw
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
C.C & COMPANY (1970)
Run Time: 1:34:00
Producer: Namanco Productions
Director: Seymour Robbie
Writer: Roger Smith
Key Cast: Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, William Smith
FILM MAKERS
C.C. and Company is a 1970 American biker flick directed by Seymour Robbie. It starred Joe Namath as biker C.C. Ryder, Ann-Margret as fashion journalist Ann, and William Smith as Moon, the leader of the fictitious outlaw biker club the "Heads Company". The film also features singer Wayne Cochran and his band The C.C. Riders. At the time, reviews were mostly negative. It was described by The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby as "the picture to name when someone asks you to recommend 'a good bad movie.'"
SUMMARY
C.C. Ryder falls in with a biker gang in the desert, and then rescues Ann from trouble with the same gang. There next occurs a motocross race tied in with a fashion shoot. The Heads disrupt the event, but C.C. Ryder enters the race to gain Ann's favor. This puts him in conflict with Moon. When Ryder wins the race and leaves with his award money the gang kidnaps Ann, and Ryder must ride back to save her.
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The Vintagent Trailers Premier: The Passenger
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THE PASSENGER (TBA, Summer 2023)
Run Time: 22:10
Producer: Brian Awitan, Beth Miller, Michael Barnett, Jeff Elstone, Gentry Dayton
Director: Jeff Elstone
Writer: Jeff Elstone
Director of Photography: Keith J Leman
Key Cast: Gentry Dayton, Wil Thomas (see his feature on The Vintagent here), Stephanie Sasso
FILM MAKERS
Jeff’s journey as a director began in childhood creating no budget adventure films with neighborhood friends on his parents’ VHS camcorder. He attended Temple University’s Film and Media Arts program in Philadelphia and directed his first short, Mother Divine, at the age of 23. The film was shot at one of the city’s most enigmatic and iconic landmarks, and was scored by esteemed Israeli composer Ady Cohen. After graduating in 2003, Jeff relocated to NYC where he worked as an assistant for photographer/director Steven Klein and later developed a notable career of his own as an international fashion and portrait photographer. The Passenger represents a return to his primary passion for narrative storytelling that also integrates a refined and visceral style honed over years behind the camera.
SUMMARY
To say anything of 2020 would inevitably sound like an understatement.
In the midst of a worldwide shutdown with no end in sight, my longtime best friend Gentry Dayton and I, along with producer Brian Awitan, sought to make the most of this unprecedented pause, at a time when grief hung heavy in the ether. What began as a pandemic project rapidly expanded into a universal meditation on loss, despair, and transformation.
While many stories rooted in motorcycle culture have predictably tired macho themes, this film is a psycho-spiritual walkabout with a tour through haunted terrain into a cocoon leading to an unexpected rebirth. The Passenger invokes the foreign art house films of the 70s, while simultaneously celebrating the classic Americana of Easy Rider that highlights the raw, fragile texture of mental health with a marked gritty spirituality, where the essence of friendship is defined and nature is personified as both a merciless and healing force.
The film also features an original score by legendary underground artist Jarboe and her creative partner Kris Force, whose previous work on 'The Path' garnered a "Best Composition" Award at the Bilbao International Game Awards. Thor Harris, a member of Swans, also contributed his eminent talents to the soundtrack and, curiously, I have a Swans tattoo on my left arm - which makes for a truly synchronistic moment in time.
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the Vintagent Trailers: Malle Moto - The Forgotten Dakar Story
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MALLE MOTO - THE FORGOTTEN DAKAR STORY (2017)
Run Time: 58:12
Producer: Adventure Spec.
Director: Greg Villalobos & Lyndon Poskitt
Writer/Editor: Greg Villalobos
Key Cast: Lyndon Poskitt
FILM MAKERS
In 2017 adventure rider Lyndon Poskitt attempted to to be the first rider since the seventies to ride to the start line of the Dakar Rally, compete in the toughest unsupported Malle Moto class, and not only finish but try to win. This feature documentary was a collaboration between myself, Lyndon and Adventure Spec. With only shot material to work with it the challenge of constructing the film was something of an endurance feat in itself.
SUMMARY
They say you only really grow at the very edge of your comfort zone. For the last three years Lyndon Poskitt has been stretching that comfort zone one kilometre at a time. From the safety of corporate existence to the freedom of a motorcycle and the open road to the biggest challenge of his life as he rides 150,000km to take part in the hardest class of the most brutal motor race in the world. In 2014 Lyndon Poskitt set off from the UK with a simple goal, to ride round the world on his motorcycle and race rallies in every continent he visits. A voyage of discovery? Or escape? As his time on the road grew, along with his hair and confidence, it dawned on Lyndon that as the world has become smaller the idea of adventure has lost it’s way. Inspired by the early pioneers of exploration and speed, he entered the infamous Dakar Rally, now hosted in South America. Lyndon looked to the pre-commercialised origins of the race where competitors set off with very little assistance or hope of reaching the finish line. To this day, even though the Dakar Rally has outgrown it’s humble origins, it still retains the Malle Moto class for those who seek a pure test of spirit and endurance. One man. One bike. One box of tools. 12 days and 10,000 kilometers of hard racing. In 2017, as the only competitor to ride to the start line, Lyndon was to discover the limit of his already stretched comfort zone. There would be only one way to discover what lies beyond it… If you liked this film don't forget that you can watch Lyndons 'Races To Places LIVE' project this January as he attempts to win the 2018 Malle Moto class of the Dakar Rally all whilst being filmed live by his intrepid film crew...
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The Vintagent Trailers: Wide Of The Mark
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WIDE OF THE MARK (2021)
Run Time: 1:26:00
Producer: Garage Films
Director: Cameron Brunt
Key Cast: Max Duff, Tom Gilroy, Justin Holmes
FILM MAKERS
Wide of the Mark was a test to see if these hand-built road bikes could survive a lap around Tasmania, the only hope was that these machines would stay in one piece. Since most things broke or went missing it was adapted that the mission was these machines finished as a functional (rideable) motorcycle even if the headlight was absent, brakes gone, the number plate bent so bad you would struggle to read it, and well the list goes on.
SUMMARY
Wide of the Mark follows six riders with a hunger for motorcycle adventure in its purest form. Hand building their road bikes to tackle Tasmania's rugged off-road terrain.
Usually, a motorcycle adventure starts on the ride, but for these six Aussie riders it started in the garage. Tasked with transforming their road bikes into the ultimate off-road machine. The only guide - a rough road map of the most testing terrain Tasmania had to offer. Wide of the Mark is new ground in motorcycle adventure films. Hand-built motorcycles, piloted by a small group of young, vibrant personalities, living under the stars and chasing the world's most renowned untamed trails punctuated by break down's, crashes and roadside repairs.
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The Vintagent Classics: Riding High
https://youtu.be/VOXKeLIqW7E
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RIDING HIGH (1981)
Run Time: 1:36:00
Producer: Klinger Productions
Director: Ross Cramer
Writer: Ross Cramer (screenplay), Derek Ford (story)
Key Cast: Eddie Kidd, Irene Handl, Murray Salem
FILM MAKERS
Riding High is first and foremost a comedy with most of the laughs coming from Irene Handl as Gran and Murray Salem as the classic cliche of a high-powered American promoter.
The superb soundtrack features dozens of hits by artists including The Police, Madness, The Pretenders, The Boomtown Rats, Squeeze, Joe Jackson, Chic, Dire Straits, The Shadows, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gary Numan and Emerson Lake and Palmer.
In real life, stuntman star Eddie Kidd was the first to clear 190 feet – over fourteen double-decker buses – and retain control of the bike. He was paralyzed and suffered brain damage following an accident in 1996.
SUMMARY
London-born motorcycle stunt rider Eddie Kidd stars as Dave Munday, a motorcycle messenger who lives with his eccentric, tough and extremely with-it grandma (Irene Handl) in a small seaside town. Dave is bored with his job but sticks with it because of the opportunities it gives him to fantasize with his bike as a stunt rider.
One day, Dave sees a giant poster challenging all comers to beat American champion stunt rider Judas S. Chariot (Bill Mitchell) to jump the Devil’s Leap – a disused railway viaduct across the Blackwater River in Essex – and win a gold plated dream machine. Dave rallies his friends around him at a local gig and the challenge is accepted.
Marvin Ravensdorf (Murray Salem) is the flamboyant promoter of the big biking show and gives a dazzling party at a leading hotel, at which Dave makes a spectacular entrance and busts the party wide open.
Only three riders ultimately qualify for the death leap, after a truly hair-raising and hilarious elimination contest held in a huge stadium. Judas, overweight, over-aged and over-the-top, has an exotic girlfriend called Zoro (Marella Oppenheim) whose romantic thoughts begin to turn away from Judas and towards Dave.
Dave and Judas meet at Devil’s Leap – neither having previously seen it – and are appalled at the yawning chasm confronting them. They both want to quit but the relentless Ravensdorf will have none of it. He has them trapped in water-tight contracts and they are compelled to go through with it. - Nostalgia Central
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The Vintagent Original: Electric Revolutionary: Samuel Aboagye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3rlSzq-sE
The Vintagent Original: Stories We Need to Tell
ELECTRIC REVOLUTION: SAMUEL ABOAGYE (2023)
Run Time: 3:15
A Film By: Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation
Key Cast: Samuel Abooagye, Paul d'Orléans
FILM MAKERS
Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation (MAF) is the world’s largest 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the creation, preservation, and distribution of motorcycle arts.
Based in New York City, and operating programs and projects worldwide, MAF champions the cultural importance of motorcycles and the impact they have had on various art-forms around the world.
Since 2016, MAF’s public and private programs, exhibitions, and events have been visited in person by over 1 million guests. Our virtual programs, online exhibitions, publishing platforms, and social platforms have over 760 million likes, views, comments, shares, and media impressions worldwide in over 35 languages.
SUMMARY
A young genius is discovered in Ghana, building hand-made solar-powered scooters from scrap. Samuel Aboagye's scooters are included in the Petersen Automotive Museum's 'Electric Revolutionaries' exhibit, but it took two Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation members to fetch them from Accra. Curator Paul d'Orléans explains the importance of Samuel's inventions.
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The Vintagent Classics: Stone
https://youtu.be/B_HOizaFl-E
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STONE (1974)
Run Time: 2:12:00
Director: Sandy Harbutt
Writer: Sandy Harbutt, Michael Robinson
Key Cast: Deryck Barnes, Sandy Harbutt, Hugh Keays-Byrne
FILM MAKERS
This low budget independent “Ozploitation Bikie Flick” (Australian biker film) wasn’t much at the time. Made a bit too late, and on the wrong side of the planet to join the American outlaw biker obsession, not to mention being slammed by the critics, it wasn’t until a few years later (1979) when a little movie called Mad Max came out and Stone was rediscovered. Now critically acclaimed, though rarely seen. It is considered the “Bikie Bible” and an Australian 70’s classic.
Directed by Sandy Harbutt, Stone tells the tale of The Grave Diggers. An outlaw, Satanist bikie gang of renegades riding Kawasaki 900s, including the legendary Kawasaki Z1 (900), that are being picked off one by one in elaborate ways by a mysterious killer.
SUMMARY
The opening scene shows the gang hitting up a demonstration to save the environment. Toad (Hugh Keays-Byrne, aka ‘Toecutter’ from ‘Mad Max’) wanders around the crowd tripping on acid, when a sniper starts shooting, killing gang member “Go Down”.
Riding 400 deep, all the local gangs gather for a fantastic bikie funeral procession (extras for this scene included members of the Sydney Hell’s Angels) for Go Down. Arriving at the cemetery, Undertaker, the gang’s leader gives the service and Go Down is buried standing up so he “won’t have to take any shit from the Evil One”. The Grave Diggers refuse to talk to the cops who question them to help find Go Down’s killer. Telling them to piss off, they head for the bar.
Stone (Ken Shorter), a straight shooting but hip, motorcycle riding cop rolls up to the bar later that night on a Norton and after some fuss, convinces the Grave Diggers to let him ride with them undercover to find out who the killer is. Leaving his posh girl behind, Stone heads off down the coast to the secret, seaside fortress where the gang is hiding out. The lair is a den of iniquity. Sex, drugs, pinball, even a guy sleeping in a coffin by a beer fridge… But, after drag racing Stinky, Stone is quickly accepted and is inducted in the Grave Digger ritual of donning a filthy club jacket and having his ear pierced by Toad with a syringe, so that he can wear the symbolic skeleton earring.
Asking around to find leads on who would want the gang dead, and thinking it will be a long list, Stone is surprised to find that the gang’s only enemy seems to be not the rival gang The Black Hawks, but instead, the local heavies who have the whole area mobbed up and have been trying to set the Grave Diggers up to keep them off their backs. Trying to incite a gang war, the heavies leave Go Down’s helmet for the gang at a local bar “complements of the Black Hawks”. Enraged that Go Down has been dug up, they tear off to the cemetery…and walk right into an ambush.
Shots ring out. The Undertaker is killed. Toad is shot and realizes that he knew who the killer was all along but had been on so much acid that he thought he had been hallucinating. A bloody battle ensues and the killer is caught by the gang, but Stone, still the civil servant, holds the gang off at gunpoint. Refusing to let them take care of business their way, he takes the killer in.
“They got something going for them…A sort of a sense of honor…That I’d like. They just up and do the sort of things that a lot of other people would like to be able to do….Yeah, I like the ol’ Grave Diggers…I’d be glad to see them anytime.”
Back at home. Enter the grave Diggers. Stone goes to shake hands but they lunge, beat him to a bloody pulp, take back his vest, tear out the skeleton earring and leave him for dead in his girlfriends arms. Hysterical, she tries to call the cops but Stone whispers through the blood and missing teeth... “no cops, no cops”. Fade to black. Cut to bikies riding into the sunrise. Cue music. Roll the credits. - Cina Meccanica
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Why Not Now - Mardelle Peck
https://vimeo.com/221857483
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WHY NOT NOW - MARDELL PECK (2017)
Run Time: 2:13
Producer: Bart Frank / Objekt Films
A Film By: James Lovick
Key Cast: Mardell Peck, Ron Peck
FILM MAKERS
James Lovick is an award-winning independent commercials & content director with a passion for telling authentic and cinematic stories. With a focus on real people and real food his crafted documentary approach humanises brands, beautifully capturing intimate and genuine moments to connect brands to their audiences.
"Back at the beginning of 2017, Objekt Films got in contact to say that Vimeo and Charles Schwab had been in touch to see whether we would like to pitch some ideas for this year’s series of films, Why Not Now? Last year, we had the pleasure of working on our first commission with Vimeo’s Brand Studio on Charles Schwab’s series, Why This Road? It was an awesome experience to make the film, about my friend Chris Yacoubian’s battle with cancer and his life-changing role with the RNLI..." Read the full filmmaker commentary HERE
SUMMARY
Mardelle Peck proves that no matter what age in life, it's never too late to make a change.
Racing motorcycles was on Mardelle's bucket list. So at age 65 she said, “Why not?” and went for it. Now she inspires younger female riders, and us. For her, life is about the journey—and being a badass along the way.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Motorrad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9AqoC6yRhs
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MOTORRAD (2017)
Run Time: 1:32:00
Producer: Filmland International
Director: Vicente Amorim
Writer: L.G. Bayão (screenplay), Danilo Beyruth (characters), Luiza Shelling Tubaldini (story)
Key Cast: Guilherme Prates, Carla Salle, Emilio Dantas
FILM MAKERS
Vicente started shooting short films in Super-8 when he was 12, and shot his first feature in 1999.
Screen International and Filmmaker Magazine listed Vicente Amorim as one of the most important independent directors in the world. Vicente Amorim’s films have been in the official selection of some of the most important festivals in the world, including Toronto, New Directors/New Films (MoMA), Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary, Rome, Montreal, Rio and San Sebastian. His films total 22 nominations at the Brazilian Academy Awards. Some of the awards won by his films include “best film” at San Diego; “best actor” at Mar del Plata; “best foreign film” at Hima Kizuma and “best director” at Gramado. His movies have been commercially released worldwide.
Amorim directed the thriller Motorrad; the Brazil-Japan co-production Dirty Hearts, with Tuyoshi Ihara; Good, with Viggo Mortensen; Sister Dulce, with Bianca Comparato; The Middle of the World, with Wagner Moura; the doc Too Much Brazil, which was awarded the UNESCO seal; and Rio, I Love You, directed alongside Paolo Sorrentino, Fernando Meirelles, John Torturro and 7 other of the world's top directors.
SUMMARY
In rural Brazil, young Hugo wants to be a part of his older brother’s dirt bike pack. He tells them about a girl he met who knows of a remote, beautiful trail. On that trail, fun and games become fear and dissent and, then, death.
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The Vintagent Selects: Burt Munro - Offerings To The God Of Speed
https://vimeo.com/787418189
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BURT MUNRO - OFFERINGS TO THE GOD OF SPEED (1971)
Run Time: 26:25
Producer: NZBC
Director: Roger Donaldson
Key Cast: Burt Munro
FILM MAKERS
Short subject documentary about land speed record holder Burt Munro. Produced for NZBC.
SUMMARY
Well who doesn't? Everybody breaks the speed limit...don't they?
Long before he made 2005 movie The World's Fastest Indian, director Roger Donaldson was fascinated by veteran motorbike racer Burt Munro. Donaldson spent more than two years making this Survey documentary, observing Munro working in his Invercargill shed and following him to Bonneville Flats, Utah, where the 68-year-old attempts to hold the speed record he set on his 1920 Indian Scout bike. Munro worked tirelessly on his bike using basic equipment and ingenuity to solve problems. Donaldson interviews friends, family and biking buddies, who comment on Munro's vitality and his lifelong obsession.
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The Vintagent Classics: The World's Fastest Indian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Yy1vihIKs
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THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN (2005)
Run Time: 2:07:00
Producer: Roger Donaldson, New Zealand Film Production Fund
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: Roger Donaldson
Key Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea
FILM MAKERS
The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
Director Roger Donaldson had been working on this film for over 20 years before he started filming it, and had previously directed a short television documentary about Munro called Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed in 1971. Arranging the financing for a full feature film was much more difficult, but a key Japanese investor, and Donaldson and Hannam's own money allowed the film to be made. Many of the props used for filming were actually owned by Munro, including all the exploded pistons and the piston mould that Hopkins uses for a scene in the film. These were on display at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery.
SUMMARY
In 1967, Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in Invercargill, known for his friendly easy-going personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated next-door neighbors, some of whom are fed up with his un-neighborly habit, such as revving his motorcycle early in the morning, urinating on his lemon tree, and not mowing his grass. Burt, however, has a long-time dream: to travel to the US and test his motorcycle's capabilities at the Bonneville Speedway. However, while modifying his motorcycle, Burt suffers a heart attack. An ambulance takes him to the hospital and he is told he has angina, and is advised to take it easy and not to ride his motorcycle. Burt ignores this advice, and is given medication.
Burt is finally able to save enough to travel by cargo ship to Los Angeles, working his passage as the cook, but when he arrives, he experiences bureaucracy, skepticism, and the indifference of big city people. It is his blunt but gregarious nature which overcomes each hurdle. He wins over the motel clerk, a transvestite named Tina, who assists him in clearing customs and helps him in buying a car. The car salesman allows Burt to use his workshop and junkyard to build a trailer, and later offers him a job after Burt fine-tunes a number of the cars on the lot. Burt declines the offer, however, and shortly afterwards begins his long trip to Utah.
Along the way, Burt meets numerous helpful people, including highway police, a Native American who aids him when his trailer fails, a woman named Ada who allows him to repair his trailer in her garage and briefly becomes his lover, and an Air Force pilot who is on leave from military service in Vietnam.
He finally arrives at the Bonneville Salt Flats, only to be blocked by race officials for not registering his motorcycle for competition in advance, and not having the mandated safety equipment. In a show of sportsmanship, however, various competitors and fans in the Bonneville series intervene on his behalf, and he is eventually allowed to make a timed run. Despite various problems, he succeeds in his quest and sets a new land speed record at the 8th mile of his run; when he reaches 201.851 mph (324.847 km/h). By the end, his leg is burned by the exhaust, and he then falls with the motorcycle and skids to a stop, but he is able to return home to New Zealand as a hero. An epilogue describes that he went to Bonneville again several times to compete and set new records.
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The Vintagent Classics: Electra Glide In Blue
https://vimeo.com/786003028
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ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973)
Run Time: 1:54:00
Producer: Guercio Hitzig
Director: James William Guercio
Editor: Robert Boris (screenplay) Rupert Hitzig (story)
Key Cast: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan
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An American Movie - By A New Director - James William Guercio
Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 American action film, starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy "Green" Bush as his partner. The film was produced and directed by James William Guercio, and is named after the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle issued to traffic cops. The soundtrack was performed by members of the band Chicago; Guercio managed them at the time, and produced many of their albums. Members of the band also appear in minor acting roles in the film. First-time director James William Guercio wanted Conrad L. Hall to photograph this film, but Hall's salary was more than was budgeted for a cinematographer. Guercio reduced his own salary to $1.00 so he could secure Hall as the cinematographer. the majority of the movie was filmed without government permits because the Arizona State Police did not want to co-operate with the production.
SUMMARY
He's a 5'4" Cop on a Big Bike in a 6'2" World
John Wintergreen is a motorcycle cop who patrols the rural Arizona highways with his partner Zipper. Wintergreen is an experienced patrolman looking to be transferred to the Homicide unit. When he is informed by Crazy Willie of an apparent suicide-by-shotgun, Wintergreen believes the case is actually a murder as the victim has shot himself in the chest rather than the head, which is more usual. Detective Harve Poole agrees it is a homicide, after a .22 bullet is found amongst the pellets in the man's chest during the autopsy, as well as hearing about a possible missing $5,000 ($30,500 today) from the man's home, and arranges for Wintergreen to be transferred to homicide to help with the case.
Wintergreen gets his wish, but his joy is short-lived. He begins increasingly to identify with the hippies whom the other officers, including Detective Poole, are endlessly harassing. The final straw comes when Poole discovers that Wintergreen has been sleeping with his girlfriend, Jolene. The hostile workplace politics cause him to be quickly demoted back to traffic enforcement.
Despite being demoted, Wintergreen is able to solve the murder. The killer turns out to be Willie, who confesses while Wintergreen goads him into talking about it. Wintergreen surmises that Willie did it because he was jealous of the old man he killed, who frequently had young people over to his house to buy drugs. Shortly after, it is discovered that Zipper stole the $5,000, which he used to buy a fully dressed Electra Glide motorcycle. Wintergreen is forced to shoot Zipper after he becomes distressed and belligerent, and shoots at Wintergreen and in the direction of two innocent bystanders, hitting one of them.
Wintergreen, now alone and back on his old beat, runs into a hippie that Zipper was needlessly harassing earlier on a previous stop. Recognizing him, Wintergreen lets him off with a warning, but the hippie forgets his driver's license, and Wintergreen drives up behind his van to return it to him. The hippie's passenger points a shotgun out of the back window and shoots Wintergreen, killing him.
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The Vintagent Trailers: One Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqD9Dm_DMN8
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
ONE WEEK (2008)
Run Time: 1:34:00
Producer: Mongrel Media
A Film By: Michael McGowan
Key Cast: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange
FILM MAKERS
One Week is a 2008 Canadian drama film directed by Michael McGowan and starring Joshua Jackson, Liane Balaban, and Campbell Scott. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2008, and was released theatrically on March 6, 2009. The scenic backdrop of the Canadian landscape as well as an all-Canadian soundtrack serve as prevalent influences in the film.
Joshua Jackson won Best Actor at the 2010 Genie Awards for his portrayal of Ben Tyler. Liane Balaban was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
SUMMARY
Jackson plays Ben Tyler, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Requiring immediate treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto across Canada to Vancouver Island on his 1973 Norton 850 Commando. Along the way, he meets several people that help him reevaluate his relationship with his fiancée Samantha (played by Balaban), his job, and his dream of becoming a writer.
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The Vintagent Selects: On Any Other Sunday - Spoof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfS18QKkabY
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
ON ANY OTHER SUNDAY - SPOOF (2022)
Run Time: 12:24
A Film By: Hoxton Moto
Key Cast: Dave Schofield, Ichiban Moto
FILM MAKERS
A lighthearted spoof of the iconic 70’s film ‘On Any Sunday’. Mainly filmed at the Malle Mile. Narrated by Ichiban Moto. 'On Any Other Sunday', is very loosely based on the legendary Mert Lawwill sequences from the original film.
SUMMARY
Hot shot and motorcycle racer Dave Schofield (Mert) is last year’s racing champion. To hold on to the championship he has entered the Sprint, Hill Climb and 500 events at the Malle Mile inappropriate motorcycle festival.
Dave is totally committed to his racing ambition. He spends at least ten minutes in his workshop preparing his highly tuned Honda Cub and Suzuki GS400 for racing. Dave and his dad, spend hours on the road, driving across the country to find the event. Within the busy weekends racing schedule, Dave always finds time to spend cherished moments with his eight fans, signing autographs and posing for selfies of himself.
As the racing action unfolds, sadly – due to alcohol poisoning and a recurring fungal infection - Dave's not on form and cannot get the points needed to retain his championship title - this leaves four other contenders in a shoot-out for glory.
The film also features riders; Jon Gaymer, Danners, Arri Cooper, Obed Cooper and Carl Simpson. Other mentioned are: Clive Hillman, Jon Betts, Moto Mandi, David Irons, Pete Stanfield, Mike Federer, Trevor Schofield, Saffron Davies Deen, Ben Eddings, Alex Elbrow and Jamie Skinner.
Thanks to Robert, Jonny and the Malle Crew, all the inappropriate racers at the Malle Mile Event and Professor Christopher Staecker. Special thank you to Tim Schofield aka Dave’s dad. And to Dave for letting us take the mickey out of him.
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The Vintagent Selects: Boycycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEFNHod_DU
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
BOYCYCLE (2020)
Run Time: 4:02
Producer: Business Club Royale & MJZ
Director: Vedran Rupic
Song: Salvatore Ganacci, featuring Sébastien Tellier
Key Cast: Salvatore Ganacci
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Emir Kobilić known professionally as Salvatore Ganacci, is a Bosnian-Swedish DJ and record producer. His performances at Tomorrowland Festival in 2018 and 2019 became internet sensations. For 'Boycycle" Ganacci has teamed up with director Vedran Rupic once again, with whom he previously worked on the music video for his track "Horse." Sébastien Tellier also lends his voice on this tune, helping create a soothing atmosphere. "Boycycle" tells the story of a creature that is half-man, half-motorcycle and learning to adapt to a world where he simply doesn't fit in. He then takes off on an adventure to find a mermaid, as it's the only thing he's seen that somewhat resembles him. This strange yet compelling love story is truly captivating due to its highly unique premise.
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Boycycle (lyrics - english translation)
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The Vintagent Selects: Motorcycle Man
https://vimeo.com/234148704
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
MOTORCYCLE MAN (2019)
Run Time: 29:00
Producer: Daniel Lovering
Director: Daniel Lovering
Editor: Chi-Ho Lee
Key Cast: Dave Roper
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We featured this film project by Daniel Lovering back in 2018 when the team was fundraising to complete post production. you can read that post HERE. The film premiered at the 2019 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, where it won Best Short Film. It has gone on to win awards all over the world, and aired on PBS in October of 2022. See below for how and where to watch.
SUMMARY
MOTORCYCLE MAN is a short documentary about a man who has pursued a single passion in life: motorcycle racing. Dave Roper has raced every year since 1972, competing on exotic vintage bikes at racetracks around the world and winning a reputation as a folk hero of the sport.
But Roper is hardly an adrenaline addict. He takes a philosophical approach to racing, viewing it as a test of mental and physical abilities. As he enters his twilight years, Roper reflects on the unconventional path he has followed in life, the dangers he has faced and the choices he has made.
MOTORCYCLE MAN follows Roper from a workshop in Brooklyn to his home on Long Island to a racetrack in Canada. Along the way he encounters autograph-seeking admirers, old friends and fellow racers eager to test their skills on the track. It also delves into Roper's past, including his victory at the UK’s Isle of Man Tourist Trophy in 1984, when he became the first American to win the notoriously dangerous race.
MOTORCYCLE MAN celebrates the speed, sweat and thrill of motorcycle racing, while offering a meditation on craft, obsession and what it takes to pursue your dreams.
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Watch the FULL FILM on PBS
The Vintagent Classics: Man With A Movie Camera
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The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (1929) AKA CHELOVEK S KINO-APPARATO
Run Time: 1:08:00
Producer: Silent film Production Co, VUFKU
Director: Dziga Vertov
Writer/Editor: Dziga Vertov
Key Cast: Soviet citizens
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Vertov, a Soviet film director, belonged to a movement of filmmakers known as the kinoks, or kino-oki (kino-eyes). Vertov, along with other kino artists declared it their mission to abolish all non-documentary styles of film-making, a radical approach to movie making. Most of Vertov's films were highly controversial, and the kinok movement was despised by many filmmakers. Today, Man With A Movie Camera is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era.
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Vertov redefined the medium of still and motion-picture photography through the concept of kino-glaz (cine-eye), asserting that the recording proficiency of the camera lens made it superior to the human eye. In a double image in Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera), the eye is superimposed on the camera lens to form an indivisible apparatus fit to view, process, and convey reality, all at once. Other sequences show cinema transforming traditional craft into industrial production through the juxtaposition of a series of images: turning spools of thread are likened to the turning reels of a film projector; the cleaning of the streets is equated to the cleaning of film; sewing is compared to editing; and a hydroelectric plant that provides energy for the textile industry is linked to the power on which the cameraman and the film industry rely.
As The Man with the Movie Camera begins, the cameraman climbs out of the “head” of the camera. The film then takes its viewer on a humorous, kaleidoscopic ride through Soviet cities while drawing parallels between the moviemaker and the factory laborer, and exposing the filmmaking process. At one moment Vertov presents a man riding a motorcycle, and then, surprisingly, he shows us shots of the cameraman filming the motorcycle, then shots of the editor editing those shots.
Making use of all filming strategies then available—including superimposition, split screens, and varied speed—Vertov created a revolution in cinematic art with his defiant deconstruction of dramatic norms. He had previously been a medical student. Under the influence of Futurist art theories and Futurism’s confidence in the machine, he changed his name from Denis Kaufman to Dziga Vertov (meaning “spinning top”) and began to experiment with sound recording and assemblage. After the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, along with his wife/editor and brother/cameraman he made films and developed polemics that called for an end to filmmaking as it was then known. “We proclaim the old films, based on the romance, theatrical films and the like, to be . . . mortally dangerous! Contagious!” he stated. Like others of his generation, Vertov believed that the creation of an objective “cinema eye” (or kino-glaz), would, in destroying old habits of viewing, help build a new, proletarian society. - MOMA
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Watch the FULL FILM on Archive.org
Read more about the Motorcycles in the film HERE
The Vintagent Selects: Who Killed Alta?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ApPIEnAjns
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
WHO KILLED ALTA (2022)
Run Time: 10:12
Producer: FortNine
Writer: Ryan F9 (Ryan Kluftinger)
Cinematographer: Aneesh Shivanekar
Editor: Aneesh Shivanekar
Key Cast: Ryan F9 (Ryan Kluftinger)
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Fort Nine creates motorcycle content with a rare twist. The engine behind their channel is fortnine.ca - Canada's largest online powersport retailer.
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Lauded as the best electric dirt bike, the Alta Redshift only lived four years before the company went bankrupt. Who killed this futuristic motocross bike? And why?
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