The Vintagent Selects: The Distinguished Gentleman
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THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (2019)
Run Time: 16:45
Producer: johnnypuetz Production LLC
A Film By: Jean Pierre Kathoefer & Kirsten Midura
Editor: Tom Ragan
Sound Mixer: Anna Khromova
Key Cast: Vincent Nicolai
FILM MAKERS
Jean Pierre “JP” Kathoefer and Kirsten Midura became friends through the NYC motorcycling community. JP is a motorcycle filmmaker from Germany who now lives in New York; Kirsten, a Portland, OR native, is a natural producer and a motorcycle event coordinator. In 2019, the two teamed up to create their debut film, The Distinguished Gentleman. This film helped to launch johnnypuetz Production LLC, and it will provide a platform for future projects that are already in the works.
SUMMARY
In February 2019, Vincent Nicolai - a beloved motorcycle charity fundraiser - nearly lost his life in a garage explosion. In response, the motorcycle community came together to raise over $77,000 to help Vincent and his family in their time of need. This is Vincent's story.
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The Vintagent Selects: SpeedisExpensive
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SpeedisExpensive: The Untold Story of the Vincent Motorcycle (TBD)
Run Time: 1:53
Film by: David Lancaster (Director)
Produced by: Gerry Jenkinson, David Lancaster and James Salter
Filmed by: Steve Read, Robbie Douglas and Gerry Jenkinson
Associate Producers: Philip Vincent-Day and Mike Nicks
Executive Producers: JP Davidson and Peter Bender
Key cast: Philip Vincent-Day, Dee Vincent-Day, Jay Leno, John Surtees, Paul Simonon,
friends, family and co-workers of Philip Vincent and Phil Irving
Music: Vaughn Williams and John Fairhurst
FILM
SpeedisExpensive is the story of a man who sacrificed nearly everything to build the world’s most famous motorcycle - a machine Hunter S Thompson called ‘Pure hell on a straightaway.’ The 1000cc Vincent took on the world - and often won – gaining more speed records than any other manufacturer during its post-war production run. Yet at the age of just 47 in 1955 Philip Vincent had to watch his company crash out of the motorcycle market. His family fortune was exhausted in the pursuit of his dreams and his career never recovered. He passed away in West London in 1979 never to see another of his designs go in to production.
SUMMARY
SpeedisExpensive will bring this amazing story to the screen through the eyes of the
grandson Vincent never met - 26-year old Philip Vincent-Day. In his family’s storage, young Philip unearthed a treasure trove of 16 mm films showing his grandfather’s glamorous life of speed and international travel from the 1930s to the 1950s. To learn more about his grandfather, he talks to the racers who set records on the bikes, Vincent riders such as Jay Leno and the men and women who built them at the factory. Friends, family and his grandfather’s biographer help him discover whether Philip Vincent was, in the words of one who knew him, ‘an upper-class charlatan’ or ‘an engineering genius’ who re-wrote the rules of motorcycling.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Blenio, Utah
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BLENIO, UTAH (2019)
Run Time: 57:00:00
Producer: Michael Beltrami
Director: Alberto Bernad, Patrick Botticchio
Key Cast: Tiziano Vescovi, Ralph Rucksthul, Hysni Jupa
FILM MAKERS
Alberto Bernad Vidal and Patrick Botticchio are both founders of Primitive Films, a professional audiovisual company.
SUMMARY
History repeats itself every summer since 100 years ago in the American state of Utah: the salt lake of Bonneville awaits patiently the burning wheels of motorcycles and cars ready for speed world records. But the 2017 edition was special, because among the hundreds of pilots present there was also a young butcher from Olivone (a switzerland's small town with a population of 800 people), Tiziano Vescovi, who on his motorbike made in Ticino and with the support of the Blenio Valley team, he launched himself to try to conquer the coveted title: will he have done it?
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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)
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
FILM
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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The Vintagent Selects: Routeless 395
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ROUTLESS 395 (2019)
Run Time: 9:36
A Film By: Ian Beaudoux
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
FILM MAKERS
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"
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CRASH BROWN: WITHOUT RESTRAINT (2010)
Run Time: 1:16
A Film By: Mike Silvio & Twin Path Productions
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
FILM MAKERS
"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
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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
FILM MAKERS
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
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ELSPETH BEARD: ONE OF THE EARLY GLOBETROTTERS (2016)
Run Time: 3:46
A BMW Motorrad Film
FILM MAKERS
“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
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THE GREEN RELAY (2016)
Run Time: 22:52
A Film By: Greg Villalobos
FILM MAKERS
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
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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
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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
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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
FILM MAKERS
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
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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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