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Olympic Movies Take Pelham Picture House in Run-up to London 2012 Games. Yessss! Cool Runnings Makes The Cut!

Olympic Movies Take Pelham Picture House in Run-up to London  2012 Games. Yessss! Cool Runnings Makes The Cut!

An Olympics-themed film program sounds like the kind of project that would drive most cinema curators bonkers.  I mean, there's  Jim Thorpe: All American, if you want to tell a really sad tale at a moment when we're supposed to be stoking the thrill of American victory.

And then there's Cool Runnings, which I've long thought of as the ideal film for herbal triathletes: mighty-lunged consumers of pot, hash and Salvia.
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