{"id":751,"date":"2015-10-21T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=751"},"modified":"2015-10-21T10:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:59:56","slug":"bicycling-in-foreign-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Bicycling in foreign films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do many foreign films\u00a0have in common? Main characters bicycling along scenic country\u00a0roads!\u00a0 In the Italian movie, &#8220;The Postman&#8221; (Il Postino), the postman delivers, on his bicycle, letters to Pablo Neruda. In \u201cThe Lunchbox,\u201d the \u201cdabbawala\u201d delivers home cooked lunches to the city workers in Mumbai, India. In \u201cGreenfingers,\u201d the main character delivers flowers on his bicycle in a small English village.<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bicycle-in-Catalina-Island-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-752\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bicycle-in-Catalina-Island-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Bicycle in Catalina Island 3\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bicycle-in-Catalina-Island-3.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Bicycle-in-Catalina-Island-3-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0foreign films\u00a0take place in countries where the bicycle is used primarily as transportation, including Corsica, where in \u201cQueen to Play,\u201d Helene, a chambermaid, rides her bicycle to work along winding roads with the ocean as a backdrop. In \u201cAs it is in Heaven,\u201d one of my favorite movies, Lena teaches Daniel to ride a bicycle, along Swedish country roads.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that when I bicycle around the island after watching one of these wonderful movies,\u00a0I feel like I\u2019m still in a movie, a wonderful transition from movie world to home life.<a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bicycle-on-Long-Island.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-753\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bicycle-on-Long-Island.jpg\" alt=\"bicycle on Long Island\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bicycle-on-Long-Island.jpg 720w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bicycle-on-Long-Island-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Long Island Community Library has a nice selection of foreign films in the collection, including some of the ones mentioned above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do many foreign films\u00a0have in common? Main characters bicycling along scenic country\u00a0roads!\u00a0 In the Italian movie, &#8220;The Postman&#8221; (Il Postino), the postman delivers, on his bicycle, letters to Pablo Neruda. In \u201cThe Lunchbox,\u201d the \u201cdabbawala\u201d delivers home cooked lunches to the city workers in Mumbai, India. In \u201cGreenfingers,\u201d the main character delivers flowers on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bicycling in foreign films<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[306,320,319],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","tag-bicycles","tag-bicycliing","tag-foreign-films"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}