As we head into this final stage of production on Life Cycles we are realizing it is no different than the struggles that came before it. We expected...planned to be shipping both DVD and BluRay on Oct 18th to the people and shops that have pre-ordered copies of the film. Since we began making Life Cycles our goal has been to offer the absolute best quality film we are capable of delivering. We recently had quality issues with our duplication process and it has set us back a bit. How many days I am not sure of yet but I will post a date once I know when we can ship them.
Read on for more on the Life Cycles DVD update and more tours coming to your town...*
9 UK Stops added!*We appreciate the support and hope this doesn't change your excitement to own a copy of our film and we are confident that the changes we are doing will result in a MUCH more impressive picture.
Thanks again for your patience.
Derek Frankowski
co-creator
Life Cycles Premiere Tour Update:Bellingham, Washington:
October 21 Bellingham WA
Mt Baker Theatre
Showtime 8 pm, doors 7pm
tickets $10 at the door or online at www.whatcomtrails.com
Saturday, October 23
Prince George, BC PG Playhouse
doors open 6:30 pm, showtime 7:00 pm
Tickets $15 @ the door and at Ruckus
Saturday, October 23 -
Santa Ana, CA The Path Bike Shop & Shimano present
Life Cycles @ the Yost Theater
Showtime 7:30 pm
Tickets $8 @ The Path Bike Shop, $10 @ the door
Saturday October 23 -
Neuchatel, Switzerland Aula de l'Universite
see
www.bikeattitude.net for details.
Germany:
October 27 Triberg Germany
Kronenlichtspiele Triberg
Showtime 8:30 pm / open at 7:30
Tickets: 9€ at the door / 7€ preorder
Thursday, October 28 -
Santa Cruz, CA Aptos Theater 7:00 -9:00pm
more info coming soon
Moab, Utah:
October 29 Moab, UT
Star Hall Theater
Showtime 9pm, doors 8:30
tickets $8 @ door, $6 advance
Friday, October 29 -
Whitefish, MT O'Shaughnessy Center
showtime 8 pm, doors open 7:30
Tickets $10 @ door & at Great Northern Brewery where Flathead Fat Tires is hosting a Dirty Pint Night Social
Minneapolis, Minnesota:
October 31 Minneapolis MN
St. Anthony Main Theater
Showtime 1:30pm
Tickets $10 at the door
Monday, November 1 -
Perth, Australia Cygnet Cinema, Como
Showtime 7.30pm, Doors open 6.30,
Tickets $20, go to
Wamba.org.au for ticketing detail
Thursday, November 4 -
Boston, MA Kendall Square Market Cinema
Show starts @ 8pm, doors @ 7:30
Tickets $12 online
www.cycleloft.com & at the door presented by Cycleloft and NEMBA
Friday, November 5 -
Liestal, Switzerland Kino Sputnik Poststrasse 2 Liestal
Tickets presale 12.- at the door 15.-
Fundraiser for Dirtjumps Liestal
Friday, November 5 -
Maribor, Slovenia Cinema Udarnik 20:00
Door open @ 19:30
Tickets 5 euros, available in cinema Udarnik at the day of event.
Petek 5. november
Kino Udarnik ob 20:00
vrata odprta pol ure pred predstavo (19:30)
Vstopnina 5 euros, na voljo na blagajni kina Udarnik
Saturday November 13 -
Regina, SK Kramer IMAX theatre
showtime 9:00 pm
Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door
November 16 -
Portland, OR Hollywood Theater
showtime 7pm
tickets $10 at the door & online presented by Fat Tire Farm & Pedal Nation Events
Thursday, November 18 -
Larkspur, CA The Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave
showtime 6:30 pm
Adults $12, 18 and under $7.50
Saturday, November 20 -
Baltimore, MD Falvey Hall
Opening Reception 7:00 pm
$10 @ the door, free for students with MICA student ID
UK Dates:
Also, U.K. dates:
GLASGOW Thursday 11th November 2010 GFT, 12 Rose Street 0141 332 6535 www.gft.org.uk Free prize giveaways on the night courtesy of www.bikelove.co.uk
AMBLESIDE Sunday 14th November Zeffirellis, Compston Road, Ambleside 015394 33845 www.zeffirellis.com
SHEFFIELD Wednesday 17th November 2010 Showroom, 7 Paternoster Row, Sheffield 0114 275 7727 www.showroomworkstation.org.uk
LONDON Thursday 18th November 2010 Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London 020 7494 3654 www.princecharlescinema.com
WALES Saturday 20th November 2010 Nant y Arian Visitor Centre
See www.summitcycles.co.uk for ticket details and information on the pre show night ride / free beer and hot dogs for everyone who comes to the show.
PENRITH Sunday 28th November 2010 Rheged IMAX cinema, Two minutes from J40 on the M6 01768 868000 www.rheged.com/mtb-night
LEEDS Friday 10th December 2010 Hyde Park Picturehouse, 73 Brudenell Road, Leeds 0113 275 2045 www.hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk
EDINBURGH Sunday 12th December 2010 Filmhouse Cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh 0131 228 2688 www.filmhousecinema.com
INVERNESS Thursday 3rd February 2011 Eden Court Theatre, Bishops Road, Inverness 01463 234 234 www.eden-court.co.uk
Are you looking to host a premiere? Please contact Alynn Smith (Tour Organizer for Life Cycles Film) at tour@lifecycles.com
If you are yet to pre-order your copy of
Life Cycles and want to save $5, head on over to the
Life Cycles store and get your order in!
thanks for the long overdue update - the film looks to be a benchmark production, but the lack of release information has been frustrating for customers who have already paid for their copies
in future, could Pinkbike actually send an order confirmation PM or email to customers who have pre-ordered titles like Life Cycles through the PB store??
this is standard practise for all other on-line retailers like Amazon and Play
my credit card was billed over 7 weeks ago for a HD Blu-Ray copy, and our shop was billed for several SD DVD copies, yet we have received no confirmation of our orders, or any indication of when we would our copies, until your post on PB today
cheers!
Rob C
London, England
But agree, premier information has been slow coming for a film that has been ramped up to be ground breaking in the MTB genre!
Doing so would suit a lot of people overseas as they can access it easier, it would also have less of a production cost for you guys.
I received no confirmation either to my Pinkbike PM or through email, and neither did our shop which ordered separately?
I regularly order HD-Blu Ray and SD-DVD film movies from big on-line retailers, and always receive a confirmation within minutes of placing any order
the lack of information I have received, or any proper information on the PB store page for Lifecycles has not been helpful, but I'm glad its on the way soon, and cannot wait to see the Devinci factory in all its glory in HD!
Thursday, November 18 - Larkspur, CA
The Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave
showtime 6:30 pm
Adults $12, 18 and under $7.50
Please purchase tickets ahead of time at this link, or they are $20 at the door:
www.rhsmtb.com/index.php
But seriously, this is not a Mountainbike film, I would say that more than 50 % of the video footage doesn't show riders shredding the trails, but wonderful shots of nature. Sou you could call it a nature film. It's definetely worth watching, just for the beauty of it. But do not expect high-class riding and stunning action. What the movie does display though is high-class riding style.
The main issue that bothered me about the style of the movie were the countless slow motion film exposures, it simply gets boring after a while, sorry. Freeriding isn't about slow motion, it's about speed and the special elegancy that comes with it.
Furthermore I didn't like the story. The thing is that the filmmakers tried too hard to create a plot. I mean, yes, the words spoken are well chosen, but what do statements like "life is an act of suicide" and "humanity is good at killing" and so on have to do with Mountainbiking? If someone knows, please explain it to me. In this particular scene cut-down woods and dead trees are shown, after that we see riders cutting down trees in order to build trails. I guess the filmmakers wanted to show some connection between these two worlds, but it doesn't work out and it doesn't make any sense if you really think about it.
And why the hell don't we see the riders actually landing after they jumped an epic jump? The landing is a part of the whole thing and there insn't ainy point in interrupting this motion by zooming out of the picture and showing a (yes, it is a beautiful view...) mountain.
Life cycles could have been an outstanding Mountainbike film, if they just would have put some more riding and less scenes-without-riding in it. I believe that the filmmakers would be able to make a nice motion picture though
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Why not show it in sydney?
Oktober 28.
UBC Campus Theatre (Frederic Wood Theatre)
Doors open @ 7, showtime 7:30
tickets $10 in advance at Dunbar Cycles (4219 Dunbar St.)
Proudly presented by the UBC Cycling Team & Dunbar Cycles
why no premiere in Italy?
Second, why was a company not hired that had such a solid reputation to make the dvds that this fiasco would not have happened. I have never seen a movie miss its dvd launch date. That is unheard of, until now at least, in the movie making business.
I'm going to go look in the store and see if I can get my money back. I might pay for it again after it has been released, if that ever happens.
My question was not answered, I just got a comment so I would still like to get the answer.
Minneapolis,MN Sunday October 31st at St.Anthony Main Theatre @ 1:30pm
no competition.
Oktober 28.
UBC Campus Theatre (Frederic Wood Theatre)
Doors open @ 7, showtime 7:30
tickets $10 in advance at Dunbar Cycles (4219 Dunbar St.)
Proudly presented by the UBC Cycling Team & Dunbar Cycles
The Lifecycles trailer contains 90% of the action in the whole film. It gives you the impression that is is rich in action. The movie itself seemed rushed in the end, even after 5 long years of making it. If you think of the movie, in the context of how long it took to make, its certainly not that great. It's understandable from first time filmakers. The ending of the film is soooo weak! I understood the story too, I get it, the bike dies and then it's a dream sequence with the night black and white. It certainly didn't stoke me, and the elaborate lighting did not come through in the footage!!!! The best part was the building section, quite sick!! The intro and first 3 parts are forgettable, Hopkins hip - only one shot no landing LAME. The level of riding was average, i'm sorry but it's true.
The first collective movie will go down in my history books as the best capture of mountain biking!! that's my opinion!!!! Cause it was simple clean beautiful and real!! You can't studio shoot and recreate nature and real riding. The narration was not combined with the right action to create that emotional story telling experience, when the credits rolled I felt board.
One more thing, The lifecycles approach for there film was not new in sports films. Dont be stupid. Some cool shots though HAHA
I support that your stoked on the filmmakers, but there is going to be negative comments towards Lifecycles cause the film is simply not perfect. Not many people have seen the film yet, just the teaser.
I saw the movie, have you??, you have to admit I have a great point!! And It's just my opinion. I'm being TOTALLY HONEST, there is like 90% of the action in the teaser. Dead serious (maybe 80%). The trailer is right, it's not a bike movie. That not because it's something new, it's cause there is no riding. Baraka, Planet earth are great, and they could say there not a bike film either!! ha Those 2 films were done right, this was an attempt at that. Its an hour of portraying a sick demo real with tunes. The riding & narration tells a story but its emotional level is low, moments of the film could have been so impact-full. But no, just more slow mo and narrated passages that are gapped to far apart, I found. Narration was well written though. The movie is slightly boring I hate to say. Sorry OSOMTBR
PS Life Cycles isn't a "one time watch' movie and I feel people will be watching it for years to come. Why? Cause it doesn't follow the latest trends and it's not all about the latest and greatest tricks. Those movie get outdated as soon as the next years comes out. Nice talking with ya.
5 years to make!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's still not at your doorstep.
I guess we could argue more?? It was fun to get all this off my chest, If any one wants an in depth review let me know.
Lets agree to dis-agree. Some people love good movies, and some people love bad movies. You my friend love bad movies.
We all watched it in complete silence and awe, finished it, then immediately restarted it. Every frame was meticulously picked over and placed accordingly. I felt like this movie had been hyped way too high before I watched it, but after just watching it a couple times, I feel like there's not nearly enough hype. You are completely right, there isn't an abundance of riding, I'm not really sure why you were surprised of that. It's an art movie. The art happens to have bikes in it. Hey we all love BC/DC and backflip after backflip, sure who doesn't... but sometimes it's time to do something different.
I don't want this movie to get to the point where you're not allowed to criticize it, but your complaints go full retard.
But hey, you saw Baraka so you must know what you're talking about.
It is so important to be able to express your thoughts. And that is what i am doing. I could call you names aswell,but its not worth it. Let me do my review, you dont know anything about films. I goto the Northwest film school and love films, I was let down by LifeCycles. I love art, and i'm saying this story about a bike needed more biking in it! I wasnt expecting a bike movie.
Baraka was the movie that influenced them, but they put biking in it, it didnt work!! And once again i'll state this- This is just my opinon!!! OK
I respect you like the film, Get off your high horse!!
LANDING 2009 - LifeCycles
It's a good movie, but definitely not perfect. You guys are soo touchy, geeze
PS. Just because a location for a premier isn't listed here doesn't mean it's not coming to your town. We are securing new locations everyday.
Thanks for the response, Don't get me wrong, the movie is good. Ryan that was a nice responce, thanks.
In general defending your position by saying that that others films are worse is not a good defence, even if it's true or not - osomtbr/vivalarevolution/LifeCycles.
Thats very uncool!
Liamm,
Thank You for your support and comments, it's nice to hear the other perspective on this. I'm glad you enjoyed the film for what it is.
Cheers,
Ryan Gibb