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Seattle Metropolitan magazine - July 2008
"Wheels and Reels"
Forget that moss-covered tradition of opening the car door for your date—in fact, forget the car all together: In a city of 20,000 strong daily bicyclists, nothing says chivalry like treating that special someone to a ride on your handlebars to the local bike-in theater on a warm summer evening. Nearly 800 people pedaled into Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill for Northwest Film Forum’s Seattle Bike-In last year; bicycling promoters,
bicycle polo games, even bicycle valet services promise success for the third-annual event, this month. Live music follows a bicycle parade that heads from the Broadway farmers market to the park in late afternoon, but the main attraction is an outdoor screening of the 1976 cult-classic documentary A Sunday in Hell (pictured). Directed by Danish fi lmmaker Jørgen Leth, Sunday follows a bloody, metal-crunching, body-dropping, oneday bike race over dusty, cobbled roads from Paris to Roubaix. The 112-year-old, 266-kilometer challenge begins with almost 200 riders from all over Europe but, as the narrator intones over the high whine of horror-movie violins and wailing ambulances, “the field shrinks. One after another they falter.” As you bike home at the end of the night, you may be thankful for a city well-suited to two-wheeled transportation—and probably go to bed convinced that you’re a wuss if you travel any
other way ever again. —Lee Fehrenbacher
SEATTLE BIKE-IN
July 20 at 4,
movie at dusk; Free
Cal Anderson Park,
1635 11th Ave
206-329-2629
www.nwfilmforum.org
Copyright Seattle Metropolitan 2008
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