Two-thirds of the route to a great documentary is the subject matter - and Alex Holmes certainly knows how to spot it. He previously brought Tracy Edwards against-the-odds yacht race tale to screen in Maiden and he’s alighted on another great fight-amid-adversity story with the career of Greg LeMond.
In recent years, the documentary arena surrounding cycling and the Tour De France has mostly focused on the negative side of the sport, thrust into the spotlight by shamed doping-scandal cyclist Lance Armstrong (Holmes himself previously directed Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story). Here, with the determined but personable Tour De France winner LeMond, the documentarian offers the flipside of that.
The structure of the documentary itself is formulaic but well executed. LeMond appears as a talking head interview against a tranquil blue background, driving his story from his first go at cycling to the most remarkable win of.
In recent years, the documentary arena surrounding cycling and the Tour De France has mostly focused on the negative side of the sport, thrust into the spotlight by shamed doping-scandal cyclist Lance Armstrong (Holmes himself previously directed Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story). Here, with the determined but personable Tour De France winner LeMond, the documentarian offers the flipside of that.
The structure of the documentary itself is formulaic but well executed. LeMond appears as a talking head interview against a tranquil blue background, driving his story from his first go at cycling to the most remarkable win of.
- 6/22/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: Roadside Attractions has acquired North American rights to The Last Rider, the story of cycling legend Greg LeMond, who came back from a near death experience to win his sport’s greatest race.
LeMond remains the only American man to win the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times – in 1986, 1989 and 1990 (Tour victories by Americans Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis were vacated after they admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs). Remarkably, LeMond’s second and third Tour de France wins came after he was nearly killed in a hunting accident, in which his brother-in-law accidentally blasted him with a shotgun, hitting LeMond with 60 pellets. He lost 65 percent of his blood, but somehow survived.
The documentary directed by Alex Holmes will be released in theaters on June 23.
Greg LeMond races in the Tour du Pont in Washington, DC May 14, 1992.
“Deeply personal and raw,...
LeMond remains the only American man to win the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times – in 1986, 1989 and 1990 (Tour victories by Americans Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis were vacated after they admitted using banned performance-enhancing drugs). Remarkably, LeMond’s second and third Tour de France wins came after he was nearly killed in a hunting accident, in which his brother-in-law accidentally blasted him with a shotgun, hitting LeMond with 60 pellets. He lost 65 percent of his blood, but somehow survived.
The documentary directed by Alex Holmes will be released in theaters on June 23.
Greg LeMond races in the Tour du Pont in Washington, DC May 14, 1992.
“Deeply personal and raw,...
- 4/19/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
It starts with a warning: “The ocean’s always trying to kill you, it doesn’t take a break.” But the terrors awaiting the subjects of Alex Holmes’ crowd-pleasing documentary “Maiden” go far beyond the sea itself. Tracing the journey of forward-thinking female sailor Tracy Edwards, “Maiden” unspools a heart-pounding race around the world, but the true challenges facing Edwards and her all-woman crew include institutionalized sexism, a media circus unable to look beyond a splashy story, and crushing self-doubt.
It’s a timely and relevant story about bold women breaking down barriers while some of their male counterparts go through the motions — dismissing them, gawking at them, not believing them, and finally, begrudgingly, letting them in. That it’s set mostly in the late-’80s doesn’t diminish its relevance one bit.
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Holmes, best known...
It’s a timely and relevant story about bold women breaking down barriers while some of their male counterparts go through the motions — dismissing them, gawking at them, not believing them, and finally, begrudgingly, letting them in. That it’s set mostly in the late-’80s doesn’t diminish its relevance one bit.
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- 9/14/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The film centres on the first all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race.
UK doc specialist Dogwoof has acquired world sales and UK distribution rights on Maiden, ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The company is plotting a UK release in early 2019 and will present the film to buyers in Toronto.
Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle and Victoria Gregory of New Black Films set the deal. It is the second feature the two companies have worked together on, following James Erskine’s The Ice King earlier this year.
Maiden tells the story of Tracy Edwards,...
UK doc specialist Dogwoof has acquired world sales and UK distribution rights on Maiden, ahead of its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The company is plotting a UK release in early 2019 and will present the film to buyers in Toronto.
Dogwoof’s head of distribution Oli Harbottle and Victoria Gregory of New Black Films set the deal. It is the second feature the two companies have worked together on, following James Erskine’s The Ice King earlier this year.
Maiden tells the story of Tracy Edwards,...
- 8/10/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Dogwoof has picked up sailing feature doc Maiden ahead of its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The London-based sales agent has taken worldwide rights to the doc, which tells the story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
It will present the film to buyers at Tiff with a UK release planned for early 2019. The deal was done between Oli Harbottle, Head of Distribution and Acquisitions for Dogwoof with Victoria Gregory of New Black Films. It is the second New Black Films picture that Dogwoof has sold following James Erskine’s The Ice King earlier this year.
Directed by Alex Holmes, who made Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story and drama House of Saddam, it is produced by New Black Films’ Victoria Gregory, who line produced Senna,...
The London-based sales agent has taken worldwide rights to the doc, which tells the story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
It will present the film to buyers at Tiff with a UK release planned for early 2019. The deal was done between Oli Harbottle, Head of Distribution and Acquisitions for Dogwoof with Victoria Gregory of New Black Films. It is the second New Black Films picture that Dogwoof has sold following James Erskine’s The Ice King earlier this year.
Directed by Alex Holmes, who made Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story and drama House of Saddam, it is produced by New Black Films’ Victoria Gregory, who line produced Senna,...
- 8/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese’s documentary about The New York Review of Books to receive its world premiere at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 7-12) has unveiled this year’s line up and has secured the world premiere of A 50 Year Argument, the feature co-directed by Scorsese and David Tedeschi that charts how The New York Review of Books has reflected Us culture since its launch in 1963.
The festival will include 21 world premieres, 12 European premieres, eight international premieres and 24 UK premieres.
As previously announced, music doc Pulp: A Film About Life Death and Supermarkets will open the festival on June 7.
There will be focuses on South Africa, art, sex, cycling and interactive.
World premieres will include Alex Holmes’ Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story; The Last Man On The Moon, which tells the story of former astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, who will attend the festival; One Rogue Reporter, written and directed...
Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 7-12) has unveiled this year’s line up and has secured the world premiere of A 50 Year Argument, the feature co-directed by Scorsese and David Tedeschi that charts how The New York Review of Books has reflected Us culture since its launch in 1963.
The festival will include 21 world premieres, 12 European premieres, eight international premieres and 24 UK premieres.
As previously announced, music doc Pulp: A Film About Life Death and Supermarkets will open the festival on June 7.
There will be focuses on South Africa, art, sex, cycling and interactive.
World premieres will include Alex Holmes’ Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story; The Last Man On The Moon, which tells the story of former astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, who will attend the festival; One Rogue Reporter, written and directed...
- 5/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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