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Ride into Britain’s ‘Summer of Cycling’ at Lincolnshire’s first cycling festival! Stamford Arts Centre hosts a weekend of cycling inspired films, all seats £5 each.  Hell on Wheels (PG) Dir: Pepe Danquart/Werner Schweizer Ger 2004 2hrs Sat 30 June | 2.30pm On the very day that the 2012 Tour de France begins get a feeling for the action in this “hardcore” cycling classic of the 2003 edition.  The Flying Scotsman (15) Dir: Douglas Mackinnon UK 2006 1hr 36 mins Sat 30 June | 5pm A brilliantly fictionalised account of the trials and tribulations of Scots cycling genius Grame Obree.  Belleville Rendezvous (12A)Dir: Sylvain Chomet Fr 2003 1hr 20mins Sun 1 July | 2.30pm Chomet’s delightful cartoon of a Tour de France rider kidnapped by gangsters and taken to New York with his mum and his dog in hot pursuit is a cycling masterpiece.  A Day Out (U) Dir: Stephen Frears UK 1972 50mins Sun 1 July | 5pm Alan Bennett and director Stephen Frears’first film, this TV classic follows a group ofYorkshire cyclists in 1911 as they turn a gentleride into a formal occasion. |
