=v= Bicycle Film Festival, that is. (What, you thought that
meant "best friends forever?") They forgot to mention Lynette.
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Bicycle Film Festival
Various Venues Wed 28 - Jun 1
by Dan Avery
Time Out New York | 22-May-2008 - 28-May-2008

It'll never reach the level of Sundance or Cannes (or even
Tribeca), but the Bicycle Film Festival, running Wednesday 28 to
June 1, does draw some of NYC's culturati -- and they come for
the love of the wheel, not to kiss Harvey Weinstein's posterior.

At the Bikes Rock kickoff party at Studio B on Wednesday 28,
Blonde Redhead drummer Simone Pace conducts a live score to
Jørgen Leth's 1974 speed-record documentary _The_Impossible_
_Hour_, while the Dear Velo art show on Thursday 29 is hosted by
vintage preppy Andy Spade.

Bat For Lashes's Natasha Khan -- or her celluloid personage,
anyway -- is on view on when the band's video for "What's a
Girl to Do" screens as part of Fun Bike Shorts on May 30 (think
Donnie Darko on Schwinns).

But the biggest name on the program is actor Matthew Modine, who
appears in the activist doc Bicycle Stories later that night.
Turns out the _Birdy_ star has been a cyclist since his salad
days: "I used to sneak out of my parents' house and ride to
my girlfriend's place," he says. "We lived in Imperial Beach,
California, and biking home with the salt and wind in the air
kind of completed the sensual experience." The founder of
the advocacy group Bicycle for a Day, Modine will also share
favorite movie clips featuring two-wheelers at "Bike Scene It"
on May 31 -- including, possibly, a curious snippet from his
1992 sailing movie, _Wind_. "We were filming in Utah when a
sandstorm came in. We couldn't shoot what we planned so the
director, Carroll Ballard, said, 'Let's film the storm,'" Modine
recalls. "No one was sure what to do, so I just hopped on my
bike and rode down this desert runway through 70-mile-an-hour
winds, using my shirt as a sail. It's a beautiful sequence."