Kim Newcombe Documentary

[vinducati]

Kim Newcombe Documentary
"LOVE, SPEED AND LOSS"
Screens at Auckland Film festival JULY17th at 1045 and JULY20th at 1200.

In motorcycle racing circles Kim Newcombe is remembered as the New Zealander who came second in the 1972 World 500 Grand Prix Championship. He’s also famous for the bike he rode, which he developed himself, using the engine from an outboard motor, then refined for the German manufacturer Dieter Konig who became his friend and mentor. Justin Pemberton’s documentary portrait is a showcase for the Super 8 footage shot by Janeen, Newcombe’s childhood sweetheart, then wife. These films of action on and off the racetrack conjure up the romance and hard-scramble that characterised life for a young couple travelling the continent on the World Championship Road Racing circuit in the swinging 70s. Newcombe’s friends and colleagues provide anecdotal testimony to his geniality and his obsession with racing, but what’s most unusual about this film is the way in which the dashing figure in the old movies registers as a phantom. Janeen became a widow at a very young age and this portrait of youth, vitality and sporting obsession is filtered through her enduring sense of loss.



http://www.enzedff.co.nz/filmsynopsi...ID=2&EventID=9

Includes Interviews with Phil Read,Chas Mortimer,Kork Ballington.

[Kickaha]

Excellent I've been waiting for this to come out since I heard they were doing it
now I'll just have to wait till it comes down here or it's on TV

Although I'd be willing to bet there's a lot of people here that wouldn't even have heard of the guy

[vinducati]

I am pretty sure it will screen at the Wellington festival as well.