The Vintagent Selects: Dyno Tune Drop Out
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Dyno Tune Drop Out (2019)
Run Time: 12:36
A Film By: Laurent Nivalle
With the help of: Deus Ex Machina, Hedon, Chatokhine Workshop
Key Cast: Richard Vincent
Music: Z Sessions (written by Zoe David)
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working full-time at DS Automobiles design department. Based in Paris 15, France.
SUMMARY
Old passions are the strongest ...
Around Santa Barbara in the 60s, Richard Vincent stockpiles the motorcycle races.
He runs, he wins, his fearsome Velocette, developed by himself. But sometimes, life goes sideways. It hurts the most vigorous and delicate passions, the taste of sport, the desire to live. We hang up the gloves, the helmet, it seems that time will bury everything.
Yet, there are rebounds and rebirths. Richard, Frank and Zoé. They're in Val-de-Loire, he's in California, they're young, he's 70. They put on the Wheels and Waves, a resurgence point where the custom spirit bubbles, open helmets and old leather.
In their French workshop, Frank and Zoé made a kind of art restoration, radical and moderate. There, the mechanics revive without losing what is priceless: the patina, the marks of age. Under their fingers, Richard's old Velocette, rusty, dusty, becalmed for decades, recovers its raison d'être. She rediscovers the pleasure of living and roaring, she gives again the pleasure of running. This film tells of a meeting. The rebirth of a motorcycle is only the pretext. How the old metal transmits electricity of passion from one generation to another. Action!
Robert Puyal
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The Vintagent Classics: 1990 The Bronx Warriors
https://youtu.be/HHuDa3le0-g
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1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS (1982)
Run Time: 1:32:00
Producer: Fabrizio De Angelis
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Editor: Dardano Sacchetti, Enzo G. Castellari
Key Cast: Mark Gregory, Fred Williamson, Vic Morrow, and members of the Hells Angels
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Co-written and directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The Inglorious Bastards), this action-packed post-apocalyptic cult classic is a delirious mix of elements from The Warriors and Escape From New York. The idea for the film was first envisioned by producer Fabrizio De Angelis when he missed a subway stop for his Manhattan hotel and ended up in dangerous neighborhood in the Bronx. De Angelis imagined the idea of a futuristic city where young hoods would fight for their home.
One of three science fiction films Enzo G Castellari made with producer Fabrizio De Angelis. These films take influence from Mad Max 2 (1981), The Warriors (1979), and Escape From New York (1981). When discussing 1990: The Bronx Warriors, The New Barbarians and Escape from the Bronx, Castellari stated the three films were written prepared and filmed in six months.
Italian regulations required that 50% of a film had to be shot in Italy. To solve this situation, the film was shot on location in the Bronx with interiors shot in Rome.
SUMMARY
In the year 1990 the Bronx is officially declared No Man's Land. The authorities give up all attempts to restore law and order. From then on the area is ruled by The Riders.
When a beautiful young woman runs away from Manhattan into this wasteland of motorcycle gangs and marauding warriors, her corrupt father sends a ruthless mercenary to bring her back at all costs. But gang leader Trash has other plans, uniting the rival outlaws to wage an all-out guerilla war against their corporate oppressors.
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The Vintagent Classics: Akira
https://vimeo.com/416958499
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AKIRA (1988)
Run Time: 2:04:00
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Izô Hashimoto
Key Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
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Signal Traced to Tokyo!
Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira) is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. The film had a production budget of ¥1.1 billion ($9 million), making it the most expensive anime film of its time.
SUMMARY
The end of the world was only the beginning.
Set in a dystopian 2019, Akira tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amidst chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo (31 years after being destroyed during World War 3). While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the manga, the plot differs considerably and does not include much of the last half of the manga. The soundtrack, which draws heavily from traditional Indonesian gamelan as well as Japanese noh music, was composed by Shōji Yamashiro and performed by Geinoh Yamashirogumi.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Wayne
https://vimeo.com/333355038
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Wayne (2018)
Run Time: 1:38:00
Producer: Fraser Brown, Matthew Metcalfe
Director: Jeremy Sims
Executive Producers: Simon Williams
Key Cast: Wayne Gardner, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Mick Doohan, Kevin Schwantz
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From Wollongong to Monte Carlo to Phillip Island, Wayne Gardner - The Wollongong Whiz - conquered the world of motorcycle racing and came home a hero.
SUMMARY
From the producers of McLaren comes Wayne, telling the exhilarating story of 1987 World Motorcycle Grand Prix Champion Wayne Gardner's triumphant, improbable journey from a 5-dollar dirt bike to the international summit of his sport.
Wayne Premieres 9/6/19
Vintagent Readers can Pre-Order it on iTunes Now.
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Title page: https://showcase.gpsdistro.com/titles/wayne
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The Vintagent Selects: Routeless 395
https://vimeo.com/352572303
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ROUTLESS 395 (2019)
Run Time: 9:36
A Film By: Ian Beaudoux
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Ever since 2014, Heath Pinter (X Games athlete and professional car/motorcycle builder) and Ian Beaudoux (filmmaker) have been documenting their travels together, creating a film project called ROUTELESS.
SUMMARY
Go left instead of right … always the long route. For years Pinter and Beaudoux have been riding motorcycles, vintage roadsters, drag racing, meeting up with friends and doing cool shit, always with a destination but taking the road less traveled. As they see it, the idea is very basic, “grab your buddy, ride your motorcycle and check shit out — it’s what people should do, and we’re just doing what we wanna do.” And what they want to do now is revisit the route that ties all of their history together: a well-known Highway 395.
To Ian and Heath, this project is a slightly different take on their past journeys. Instead of aiming toward an event or people to interview, this was an opportunity to revisit the road that links it all together for them, connecting Southern California to their roots in South Lake Tahoe, where they met snowboarding at the age of 18. Over the years, Ian and Heath have probably traveled Highway 395 more than a hundred times going from sea level to 10,000 feet, connecting the dots of the past to the present. Highway 395 is the lifeline to how it all began for these two, and for six days, I followed them riding up the backroads, revisiting a road that has a rich history for California, combining two of their favorite passions: motorcycles and snowboarding in the Sierra Nevadas.
As with most of their trips, this one begins in the garage. Two freshly built dual-sport Harley-Davidsons with side-mounted snowboards — one 2010 scrambler built out by the talented Aki Sakomoto from Hog Killers, and one 2003 street tracker customized by Heath, both rigged with snowboard racks built and designed by Heath — rolling out for their first rides from Long Beach to Mammoth Mountain via the most off-the-beaten-track dirt roads as possible and filming along the way. - Heidi Zumbrun (words and photos)
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The Vintagent Trailers: Rockets and Titans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtG4f3-c8k&feature=youtu.be
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ROCKETS & TITANS (2019)
Run Time: TBD
Producers: Andrew Lahmann, Colin Dalvit, Chad DeRosa, Eldad Efendi
Director: Chad DeRosa
Executive Producers: Dana Brown, Erin Sills, Robert Brim
Key Cast: Valerie Thompson, Denis Manning
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From the award-winning documentary filmmakers behind “Out of Nothing”, “Dust to Glory”, “Step Into Liquid” and “On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter” comes ROCKETS AND TITANS — the true story of an aging racing legend who recruits an untested female rider to race his self-designed motorcycle in a bid to shatter the 400mph barrier and become the fastest motorcycle of all time. Set against some of the most remote and breathtaking scenery on Earth, this is a portrait of two opposites, who must learn to trust each other as they chase a singular, dangerous dream.
SUMMARY
Bitter and bankrupt, an all-but-forgotten racing legend recruits an untested female rider to battle two big-budget teams in a race to become the first motorcycle to shatter the 400mph barrier.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Crash Brown "Without Restraint"
https://vimeo.com/10207148
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CRASH BROWN: WITHOUT RESTRAINT (2010)
Run Time: 1:16
A Film By: Mike Silvio & Twin Path Productions
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Produced by Mike Silvio, the film highlights the life and daring-do of the late stuntman, John Tim “Crash” Brown. Silvio, the owner and curator of Cyclemos Motorcycle Museum in Red Boiling Spring, Tennessee, took an interest in Brown after being loaned some memorabilia by the Brown family, and in 2009 took his idea for a documentary to Twin Path Productions, based in Asheville, North Carolina. The result is a biographical human-interest story told by the voices of those closest to this unique daredevil, including his daughter Joan, who participated in many of his stunts. The film also features original footage and photographs of Brown in action.
Stay tuned later this year, as The Vintagent works with Silvio to bring the full film to audiences worldwide!
SUMMARY
CRASH BROWN: WITHOUT RESTRAINT Highlights the life and stunts of John Tim "Crash" Brown.
Experience the true story of an American original who's unique passion and larger than life persona took him across North America, performing to wide-eyed audiences of young and old alike. Through unseen footage and pictures of Crash in action as well as interviews with family and friends, meet the one and only "Crash" Brown and gain insight into some of his most dangerous and extraordinary stunts.
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The Vintagent Selects: American Dream
https://vimeo.com/53917349
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AMERICAN DREAM (201 )
Run Time: 11:07
Photographer: Ian Ruhter
Director: Lane Power & Ian Ruhter
Cinematographer: Lane Power, Dan Moses, Beau Lambert, Ian Beaudoux, Laura Austin
Editor: Lane Power
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"There is a point in every person's life when they must choose to follow their dreams or be stuck in the life they fear."
SUMMARY
The American Dream video is based on the fear of success, this thought is extremely powerful, fear has the ability to cripple us from pursuing our dreams. The moment I embraced my dreams it was as if the universe had drawn people to help us and share their stories. Our goal is to tell the stories of the people who live in America. Your support is the driving force behind our project. We could not have done this without you. We have made it this far because you shared and supported us through our social networking sites. We were able to connect with the people in this film because of the internet. Every time you share or like this project it brings us one step closer to photographing your town, people you know, possibly even you. Become a part of our journey;
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The Vintagent Selects: They Call Me Cheetah
https://vimeo.com/343755132
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THEY CALL ME CHEETAH (2018)
Run Time: 4:11
Producer & Visual Director: Larry Smith / MASA INOUE
Director: Wil Thomas III
Cinematographer: Joshua Makela
Drone Operator: Brian Anselmo
Music: Rocco Deluca
Sound Engineer: Ben Zales
Editor: Lauren Schneider
Still Photography: Michelle Bandach
Translator: Guillermo Yoshikawa
Cast: Toshiyuki Osawa / Cheetah Custom Cycles, Shinya Kimura / Chabott Engineering, Mitsuhiro Kiyonaga / Kiyo’s Garage
Special Thanks: Born-Free & The Stampede
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Produced by Japanese jewelry company, Larry Smith, and Directed by Wil Thomas III (Co-Producer of Sugar & Spade).
SUMMARY
THEY CALL ME CHEETAH is a visual poem about motorcycle builder Toshiyuki Osawa and the 1944 Indian Chief, named "Silver Arrow", he built for Larry Smith. Filmed in 2018 during his invitation to California's "Born Free 10", THEY CALL ME CHEETAH also features famed motorcycle builders Shinya Kimura and Mitsuhiro Kiyonaga as we explore the spirit of Japanese craftsmanship and the its place in the international motorcycle community.
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The Vintagent Selects: Elspeth Beard - One Of The Early Globetrotters
https://youtu.be/7O4Xp6Qndfw
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ELSPETH BEARD: ONE OF THE EARLY GLOBETROTTERS (2016)
Run Time: 3:46
A BMW Motorrad Film
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“When I set off to ride my motorcycle around the world in 1982 I never imagined that my story would ever be published,” says Elspeth. On her return in 1984 she put all her journals, tapes and photos in a cardboard box in the back of a cupboard where they remained for over 30 years. In 2008 freelance journalist Paul Blezard was commissioned by Andy Dukes to write an article about her round-the-world trip for BMW Motorrad, and over the next seven years her story gradually spread.
SUMMARY
Elspeth Beard is a motorcyclist and award-winning architect. In the early 1980s she completed a solo motorcycle trip around the world and became the first British woman to achieve this. She runs her own architectural practice, specializing in creating and remodeling interesting and unusual buildings. She lives in a converted Victorian water tower in the southeast of England and still enjoys riding her collection of motorcycles, which includes the trusty BMW R60/6 which carried her around the world.
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The Vintagent Selects: The Green Lane Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWcgLnmIkkA&t=3s
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THE GREEN RELAY (2016)
Run Time: 22:52
A Film By: Greg Villalobos
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Greg Villalobos is not only a filmmaker, but a BAFTA award-winning brand builder too. In 2004 Greg co-founded a digital agency in London, but since left London for North East Britain to help smaller organizations communicate their brands. As an outdoors and bike enthusiast, Greg tells stories through his experiences and the experiences of those around him.
SUMMARY
Can you ride from Newcastle to London and back using as many Green Lanes as possible? Without a map. This is a challenge I set myself in the early days of my trail riding days. Using the power of social media I attempted to get my KTM 450 EXC around the country over 2 weeks. To this date it remains one of the defining trips of my motorcycling life and kickstarted a new chapter in my media career.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Today Is A Good Day
https://vimeo.com/105236253
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Today Is A Good Day (2016)
Run Time: 3:25
Producer: Big Company, The Jack's
Director: François Lapointe
Writer: Véronique Lhorme, François Lapointe
Cast: Roland Sands, Conrad Leach, Paul d'Orleans, Shinya Kimura, Olaf Stenegard, Derek Harris, Ornamental Conifer and many others
FILM MAKERS
This idea of a web-doc was born in 2012 by Director Francois Lapointe and Stéphane Dalbec, co-founder of Big Company, both in love of the cafe racer culture and motorcycles they wanted to share their passion through beautiful images and engaging stories. The Jack’s and Big Company are two French video production companies creating TV ads, documentaries, web-documentaries and 3D animation. Some guys in the production team are also Cafe Racer motorcycle and culture enthusiasts so there’s a lot of personal passion going into the project. Francois and Stéphane’s main inspiration for ‘Today is a Good Day’ came after attending Wheels and Waves in 2012 and 2013.
SUMMARY
Today Is A Good Day is a rich interactive road trip where you chose your destination from Los Angeles to Biarritz by way of London and so on. Town to town you will meet people felt in love with motorcycling and sharing the same spirit, driven by passion and involved in the 2 wheels landscape. We will offer you as well as possible the spirit and all things that fuel each of them, their inspirations, their authentic way of life influencing them daily in their jobs and relations. We’ll do our best to deliver a great painting of these motorcycle builders, painters, photographers, designers, bloggers etc…. … we dare it in any case and hope it will be.
This film is an adventure, more, it’s a quest fed by passions and fulfillments of dreams, supported by guys like Roland Sands, Conrad Leach, Paul d'Orleans, Shinya Kimura, Olaf Stenegard, Derek Harris, Ornamental Conifer and many others with no lucky charm but who promised to themselves to become and stay free, whatever happens.
The world motorcycle movement feeds itself due to the multiple inspiration sources it’s made of. We all face many choices, we all have are own views or desires, and one idea shared can lead towards many different results. That is the magical motorcycling spirit. Let’s go!
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The Vintagent Classics: TRON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb99SK76uWw
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TRON (1982)
Run Time: 1:36:00
Producer: David Kushner
Director: Steven Lisberger
Writer: Steven Lisberger
Key Cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner
FILM MAKERS
The development of Tron began in 1976, when Lisberger became intrigued with the early video game Pong. He and producer Donald Kushner set up an animation studio to develop Tron with the intention of making it an animated film. Indeed, to promote the studio itself, Lisberger and his team created a 30-second animation featuring the first appearance of the title character. Eventually, Lisberger decided to include live-action elements with both backlit and computer animation for the actual feature-length film. Various film studios had rejected the storyboards for the film before Walt Disney Productions agreed to finance and distribute Tron. There, backlit animation was finally combined with the computer animation and live action.
SUMMARY
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control Program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.
The bikes were originally designed by Syd Mead, the same mind that created the vehicles for Blade Runner.
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The Vintagent Classics: Mad Max
https://vimeo.com/416520770
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MAD MAX (1979)
Run Time: 1:35:00
Director: George Miller
Writer: James McCausland, George Miller
Key Cast: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
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George Miller was a medical doctor in Sydney, working in a hospital emergency room where he saw many injuries and deaths of the types depicted in the film. While in residency at a Sydney hospital, Miller met amateur filmmaker Byron Kennedy at a summer film school in 1971. The duo produced a short film, Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, which was screened at a number of film festivals and won several awards. Eight years later, the duo produced Mad Max, working with first-time screenwriter James McCausland (who appears in the film as the bearded man in an apron in front of the diner).
SUMMARY
The Film That Started It All.
According to Miller, his interest while writing Mad Max was "a silent movie with sound", employing highly kinetic images reminiscent of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd while the narrative itself was basic and simple. Miller believed that audiences would find his violent story more believable if set in a bleak dystopian future. Screenwriter McCausland drew heavily from his observations of the 1973 oil crisis' effects on Australian motorists.
Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. After some grisly events at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge.
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The Vintagent Selects: Elspeth Beard - Riding into History
https://vimeo.com/256934157
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Elspeth Beard: Riding Into History (2018)
Run Time: 3:41
Producer: A film by Culture Trip
Director: Souleyman Messalti & Joe Brooks
Camera: Souleyman Messalti & Adu Lalouschek
Animation: Joe Brooks & Alex Mellon
Editor: Thomas Canton
Sound Design: Ross Henbest & Thomas Canton
Cast: Elspeth Beard
FILM MAKERS
Culture Trip filmmaker Souleyman Messalti and animator Joe Brooks caught up with Beard at her home in Godalming, Surrey: an award-winning, 130-foot, brick-built water tower that she painstakingly converted over a seven-year period after she returned from her travels and completed her architectural studies. (Just in case you hadn’t gathered by now, this is a woman who likes a challenge.)
She discusses the liberating power of anonymity, the painful trade-off between independence and isolation, the possibility of finding love in the mountains of Kashmir and the opportunity, fast disappearing from the world, of getting lost.
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SUMMARY
You’re 23, your heart’s been broken and there’s a long, hard slog of study stretching out in front of you. What do you do? For Elspeth Beard, a round-the-world trip on the back of her 1974 BMW R60/6 flat-twin motorbike proved the ultimate remedy for a wounded heart and weary head.
Thirty-two years after making history as the first British woman to ride solo around the globe, clocking 35,000 miles and crossing 20 countries along the way, she sat down to complete the equally epic task of penning a biking memoir to match the adventure. Lone Rider, published by Michael O’Mara in July 2017, retraces her two-year journey from a dockland warehouse in Brooklyn to her parents’ garage in central London, via outhouses in the Outback and hostile hotels in Middle Eastern war zones.
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The Vintagent Classics: TRON Legacy
https://vimeo.com/416512932
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TRON LEGACY (2010)
Run Time: 2:05:00
Producer: Steven Lisberger
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writer: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz
Key Cast: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde
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Tron: Legacy is a 2010 American science fiction action film directed by Joseph Kosinski, in his feature directorial debut, from a screenplay written by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, based on a story by Horowitz, Kitsis, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. It is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron, whose director Steven Lisberger returned to produce. The cast includes Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprising their roles as Kevin Flynn and Alan Bradley, respectively, as well as Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Michael Sheen. The story follows Flynn's adult son Sam, who responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called "the Grid," where Sam, his father, and the algorithm Quorra must stop the malevolent program Clu from invading the real world.
SUMMARY
The only way to win is to survive.
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
TRON: Legacy is the sequel to TRON (1982) which featured the iconic Light Cycles designed by Syd Meade. In the new film, the Light Cycles were brought to life for a new generation by German concept designer and artist Daniel Simon.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Take None Give None
https://vimeo.com/114283778
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TAKE NONE GIVE NONE (2015)
Run Time: 3:36
Producer: Gusmano Cesaretti, Kurt Mangum & Bruno Sere
Director: Gusmano Cesaretti & Kurt Mangum
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Gusmano Cesaretti, is a self-taught photographer and artist from Lucca, Italy. A resident of Los Angeles since 1969, Cesaretti has been capturing the sound, light, and emotional tenor of his adopted city through the lens of his camera. Cesaretti first began photographing the Chosen Few over 20 years ago and in 2011, he teamed up with photographer Kurt Mangum who moved to Los Angeles from New York City in 2008. Together they tell the motorcycle club’s story by creating an in-depth portrait of this community of bikers in South Central.
SUMMARY
Take None Give None follows the story of the outlaw motorcycle club the Chosen Few. Based in South Central Los Angeles they are the oldest interracial club of it’s kind. After a series of raids by the LAPD in 2011 the club is at odds with itself, the city of Los Angeles and a local news media set on defaming their reputation. It tells the story of a complex family on the verge of change and takes a nostalgic look into the history of a motorcycle club through the eyes of some of it's founding members.
Gusmano Cesaretti began photographing the Chosen Few Motorcycle Club over 20 years ago. With the help of new technologies available for documentary filmmaking, he teamed up with photographer, Kurt Mangum and a group of talented professional cinematographers to capture in light, motion, sound and words the experience and the lifestyle of the oldest integrated outlaw motorcycle club in the United States.
During the four years of filming, the club experienced many changes — from the mounting tensions and differences between members, to the raiding and seizure of their historic South Central clubhouse by the Los Angeles Police Department. This film hopes to offer a ground level, unfiltered and unbiased look at what it means to be one of The Chosen Few.
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The Vintagent Selects: Globe Of Death
https://vimeo.com/189050258
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GLOBE OF DEATH (2017)
Run Time: 6:14
Director: Pedro and James
Director of photography: Malte Rosenfeld
Production company: Autobahn Productions
Producer: Thais Altman
Edit: Pedro and James
Colorist: Jim Bracher at The Mill
Score: Russ Chimes
Sound design and mix: Patch Rowland at Final Cut
Additional music: Hems
Graphic design: Duncan Edwards
FILM MAKERS
Directed by Pedro and James (Autobahn), they met Lucius through their passion for motorcycles. ‘We were mesmerized by how incredibly visual the act is and thought that combined with his life story it was a perfect subject for a film’.
With photography by DP Malte Rosenfeld, color grading by Jim Bracher at The Mill, and sound design by Patch Rowland at Final Cut, the film is a look into Lucius’ life and all he has gone through during 30 years of riding motorcycles in the Globe of Death.
Shot on RED with anamorphic lenses from Cooke Optics and Kowa.
SUMMARY
‘Globe of Death’ is the story of Lucius Zafalon, a daredevil motorcycle rider that risks his body in the pursuit of the perfect globe of death act. Through all the challenges and difficulties he has never stopped focusing on his art. It is what defines him and what he has lived his whole life for.
An act of raw beauty with precise flowing lines that defy the laws of physics, they create an awe inspiring ballet that mesmerizes anyone who dares to keep their eyes open.
For Lucius and his team The Globe of Death is not just an act, it is their lives.
The Globe of Death is a stunt that dates from the beginning of the 20th century. One of the oldest patents for the mesh sphere ball was filed in 1904.
Different to the Wall of death (popular in the UK) where the riders ride only on the horizontal, with the Globe of Death multiple riders can race in any direction at the same time.
The Globe of Death gained popularity in Latin America and some of the best acts comes from Brazil. What makes a good Globe of Death act isn’t just how many motorcycles the team can fit inside the Globe, but also the beauty of their riding lines. The synchrony between the riders and the team’s particularities, such as riding in the dark and opening the Globe in half sets Lucius’ team apart.
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