luge

Erik A. Wilson’s cinematography is warm and grainy; it and the script have been polished until the scene transitions flow like vodka down a frat party’s ice luge.

The sleepy socialist town built new alpine and Nordic ski trails, ski jumps, bobsled and luge runs, a skating rink, dozens of apartment blocks and numerous hotels.

Still, the event company doesn’t want to water down a cool cocktail: It’s bringing in ice luges for the crystal-and-ice bash.

The World Cup luge circuit is in Lake Placid this weekend for the first time since 2009.

Stockholm’s bid should again use Are, a ski resort more than 300 miles to the north, and the bobsled, luge and skeleton track across the Baltic Sea in Latvia.