a fascinating and even wondrous man caught in a beautiful movie, not just documentary. Man On Wire has more suspense, thrills, wonder, imagination, human spirit and inspiration than any other film I have seen in recent years. Critics Consensus: In its third season, The Wire's taut, unflinching examination of Baltimore expands from the criminal underworld to the top of the political machine. There used to be another name for this state of mind. Man on Wire is the sorta film that brings back all sorts of memories. Simon Chinn is a double Oscar-winning British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox. No superlative could be wasted on Man on Wire. The rest of it is listening to some self-absorbed French lunatic talk about how he played hide and seek in his mid-30s. As a 8 year old living in NJ, I had never been to or seen NYC up to that point of my life. Barb Wire is a 1996 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name.It stars Pamela Anderson in the titular role, alongside Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Xander Berkeley, Udo Kier and Steve Railsback. Most reviews tend to focus on the undeniable artistic beauty represented by Phillipe's walk between the World Trade Center towers. This however, has been dragged out for 90 minutes and personally I want those 90 minutes of my life back. Unfortunately due to an error, the reels were swapped in the middle of the film, which threw the timing a bit but to be honest the poor organisers looked so miserable as they apologised that no one minded, and the film was just as beautiful as it should have been. Club [Noel Murray] Man on Wire (bra: O Equilibrista [1]; prt: Homem no Arame [2]) é um filme britano-estadunidense de 2008, do gênero documentário biográfico, escrito e dirigido por James Marsh, baseado no livro autobiográfico To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers, de Philippe Petit. Oh dear. Thrilling! The film is sloppy and it plays out like a bad B movie. The movie is over-long, heavy on shadowy reconstruction and boring interviews, and totally fails to capture the awesome nature of the feat performed, which is served only by contemporaneous stills. I couldn't see the actual crossing from the 15 some odd miles from my house. A great example of narrative efficiency. If I was still President, this type of blasphemy would not be acceptable in society. Brad Wyman produced, and David Hogan directed from a screenplay by Chuck Pfarrer and Ilene Chaiken. IMDb Announces the Top Stars and Top Breakout Stars of 2020 and Presents a STARmeter Award to Anya Chalotra This film should have never have been created. Heres the ultimate proof of this films power - the audience didn't shift until a good couple of minutes into the credits. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. As evil on a human scale as 9/11, this period shown in this movie show the opposite of that scale. The film captures a human sense of achievement, drive and determination better than any other film I know. And of course new. Is ha a therapist dealing exclusively in acrophobia? In announcing the Audience Award for this film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sir Sean Connery described it as one of the best three films he had seen EVER. The Best Laid Plans of Crazy Frenchmen... A unique, stunning, exhilarating and beautiful experience. With Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce. Seeing this film brought back that amazing times. Directed by John Badham. Meaning not so much that someone won't try something death-defying or crazy like walking a tight rope somewhere or climbing up a building (matter of fact that still happens in Manhattan as recently as a couple of months back), but that this sort of situation- a man going across something as perilous and unique as the Twin Towers- is based in a film that preserves his story like so. Stunning! Stringer eventually goes behind Avon's back and has D'Angelo murdered in prison. Denzel Washington is of course on his A-Game as well as Dakota Fanning pulling off a great child performance. Bodie was a dealer who came of age working for Avon Barksdale. Beautiful film, fascinating characters, sublime acts. RELATED: The Wire: Every Episode In Season 3, Ranked (According To IMDb) Avon's right-hand man Stringer Bell begins to see D'Angelo as a risk, especially since he is in prison. "Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. But a friend of mine told me about a tree nearby tall enough to see the Twin towers from the top. Some scenes in the film are incredibly atmospheric, and they will be forever burned in your mind. Man on Fire is thrilling, dark, well acted and the ending will bring out some tears. When I first heard of this film I was intrigued. If this film actually portrayed the walk from tower to tower it would take a maximum of 30 minutes. Sadly, while a decent film, it certainly was no especially memorable or transcendent. At 7:15 AM, Philippe took his first step on the high wire 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan. With that heavy recommendation, I was well-primed to disagree. While reading the user reviews of this documentary, it appears to me that a lot of people may have missed some critical subtext in the film. However, by the end of the film I felt that the filmmaker used contrasting statements and emotions of the characters to highlight the selfishness and narcissism that can sometimes go hand in hand with the drive of an artistic genius. For me, this is what cinema is all about, and this film is striking in that it encapsulates so much in a documentary. You could listen to Petit for hours and hours, like a sweet grandfather who tells stories of fairies and dragons to intrigue and feed the fire of children's imagination. It's talking heads for the majority of it, and the director often has more than one character in succession saying the same thing, but in their own different words. Thank you for reading my fellow Americans. On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. Man on a Ledge is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Asger Leth, starring Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Elizabeth Banks, Edward Burns, Anthony Mackie, Genesis Rodriguez, and Ed Harris.Filming took place in New York City on top of The Roosevelt Hotel.It was met with mostly negative reception by critics, and grossed $8 million (USA) in its opening weekend. The rigging was done by night in complete secrecy. James Marsh and Philippe Petit manage it with strength and determination, a documentary without precedents. It's a nostalgic salute to a pre-Zero Tolerance New York, which may have been riddled with crime but where city officials and residents apparently realised that some things are more important than health-and-safety. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the show examines with equal intensity the lives of characters on both sides of the law.The resulting drama is rife with social commentary and criticism. The Wire is a Deconstruction of the Police Procedural and Criminal Procedural genres. As someone old enough to remember this Philippe's amazing feat, seeing this brought back memories of old. I was really looking forward to this as I'd heard so many rave reviews. 2004, HBO, 12 episodes Directed by Tony Scott. I then heard that there was no actual footage of the feat itself, and I more or less completely lost interest - thought I might watch when it inevitably appeared on the BBC. The music, composition and photography, structure and editing are all superb. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challenges: he had to find a way to bypass the WTC's security; smuggle the heavy steel cable and rigging equipment into the towers; pass the wire between the two rooftops; anchor the wire and tension it to withstand the winds and the swaying of the buildings. After the long slow methodical buildup, when the moment comes, calmly accompanied by a famous piece for solo piano by Eric Satie, it is so awesome, so still, so transcendent it makes you cry. IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Greatness/ The greatness of the human spirit . Is he Professor of Advanced Balance at the Sorbonne? The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement. The fact that this won an Oscar is a joke. No question why this film needed to be made. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. Easily one of the best documentaries I've seen, Man On Wire swept me off my feet not with spectacle but with a certain quiet recognition of the incredible events it chronicles - a team of young, rebellious twentysomethings who rigged a wire across the twin towers that their mascot, Philippe Petit, walked or as one police officer comments, "danced," across for forty- five minutes. In Mexico City, a former CIA operative swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect. Riveting! Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. The Film Talk - Podcast Review of Man on Wire. crossing Notre Dame's stretch of space in Paris), but this was his crowning achievement which, oddly enough, didn't quite get the kind of buzz the film might depict; the day of Petit's walk across the towers, Nixon resigned from the presidency. Browse the full The Wire cast and crew credits for actors by character names from the HBO original program. This is one awful film that just doesn't cut it. Good God, this is a painfully slow and boring documentary. An old flame discovers her ex-boyfriend from the past is a relocated FBI informant out to stop the bad guys. But Man on Wire was only okay. What are we, in kindergarten?? . He is responsible for some of the most successful feature documentaries of recent years including Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man.. An award winning film this may be but it's not exactly an enjoyable one. The Flickering Wall [Jorge Mourinha] The Fresh Films [Fredrik Gunerius Fevang] The House Next Door [Lauren Wissot] The Japan Times. I'm in the minority on this one, but Man on Wire did very little for me. âDavid Makes Manâ: Tony Plana, Brittany S. Hall, Erica Luttrell, Zsané Jhé And 6 More Set In Recurring Roles For Season 2 Of OWN Drama - IMDb ...sometimes work as director James Marsh and subject Philippe Petit prove in the sublime and inspiring documentary, "Man on Wire." Constructed, believe it or not, as a heist film, composed of interviews, actual filmed footage from the seventies, re-enactments (done incredibly tastefully and intelligently) and a large number of photographs, "Man on Wire" from director James Marsh is a brilliant, audacious, stunning, and utterly enthralling film, and having seen it not more than an hour ago I can already say with confidence that it is one of the best documentaries ever made, not because it achieves the sort of brilliantly real observations on human behavior and emotions that a Maysles Bros. film does, but because it is a surprisingly hilarious, unbelievably well-crafted movie about so many absurdities, so much ridiculousness, such insane, insane acts (and yet so beautiful as well), and one which looks in on some of the most interesting people I think I've ever come across. The film chronicles Philippe Petit 's 1974 high-wire walk between ⦠-Brad Holland, What a great example of exploiting context. It doesn't even get to the actual incident until the final minutes. James Marsh's documentary brings Petit's extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe himself, and some of the co-conspirators who helped him create the unique and magnificent spectacle that became known as the artistic crime of the century. He seems to be a man so specialized that he was meant in life to do only one thing, at one time, and this film is about that moment and shows why a moment--a half hour, actually, in the early morning of August 7, 1974--can define a life and reshape one's perceptions. I watched the news that night and remember the video of his arrest and the footage inside the police station. With Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell. I too saw this at the Waterfront Film Festival, and wow, what an experience. Philippe Petit was already a tight-rope walker who did some crazy stunts (i.e. Exhilarating! I'm not sure about the numbers, but it one of the best and most worth-while documentary films I have ever seen, if not the best. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IMDb (www.imdb.com), the worldâs most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, today ⦠After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. What does Philippe Petit do now? He went to school with Louis Theroux and he produced the documentary My Scientology Movie which is written by Theroux. I'd never heard of a hire-wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. August 7, 1974. A great example of cinematically fictionalizing reality, even more and better than "JFK.". I normally don't take to non-'cinema-verite' documentaries, but this is just about the biggest exception possible, as I will say with confidence that this is an a terrific film. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney ⦠"If they build them, I will come", paraphrases what Parisian street performer and tightrope walker, Using actual footage from the event seamlessly mingled with new re-enactments, filmmaker. We saw this film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, it's European premier, and it was a packed audience. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his ⦠With Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Bill Duke. It drags on and on and is nothing more than an ego trip for the man who walked across a wire. The Lumière Reader. Some of the shots are simply breathtaking. I went to see Man on Wire with my mother and a friend, and after it my mother said simply "something like this will never happen again." But to think someone could actually do this was something i just couldn't believe. The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series, The Wire.Note that some characters' allegiances or positions may have changed over time; and, although the series has ended, the placement below is generally meant to reflect their most recent situation. And for those couple hours of movie viewing brought back a time when things like this were truly amazing and cool, and when the towers stood as a great symbol of the NYC skyline and America. It is based on the story of 24-year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, 1974. Here we see Petit and his cohorts recklessly plan and execute the most daring stunt in the history of the world. It used to be called psychosis." Considering that "Man on Wire" won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, I was expecting a lot from this film. It's about an illegal and dangerous coup where the criminal objective was to create a beautiful spectacle. In August of 1974, Petit walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC. The series continued to examine the Baltimore police department, the Stanfield organization and city hall while introducing a fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun newsroom. Your audience is not stupid, things don't have to be constantly repeated. Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, and based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell.The novel had previously been adapted into a feature film in 1987.In this film, Denzel Washington portrays John Creasy, a despondent, alcoholic former Special Activities Division operative/U.S. I saw this at the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck, Michigan. The NYC Movie Guru [Avi Offer] The One-Line Review [Iain Stott] The Onion A.V. The fifth and final season of the television series The Wire commenced airing in the United States on January 6, 2008, and concluded on March 9, 2008; it contained 10 episodes. It is awful, I am currently watching it and I can tell you right now that suicide is a option worth considering. Barb Wire is a mess, and doesn't work as an effective action film. "Genius is a transcendent capacity for taking trouble first of all" Frederick the great by Thomas Carlyle. Man on Wire is an exciting documentary about Philippe Petit who, thanks to his friends, managed to sneak into the World Trade Center in 1974 and do a high-wire act between the Twin Towers. From the very start of the film it pulls you in, this is an amazing story and Petit is an amazing person to document. It was at the time of the crossing that i climbed this tree to see the top of the towers. 5 Bubbles Gets Clean The Walk is a 2015 American 3D biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Christopher Browne and Zemeckis. It's watchable and competently made but that's really about all. After the Barksdale organization dissolves, he is briefly independent (supplied by the New Day Co-Op) until Marlo forces him to join his crew.He is shot in the head by O-dog with Snoop and Chris providing a distraction after being seen having a conversation with McNulty, because Marlo suspects he may be a snitch. A young French man named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Man on Wire is a 2008 British-American biographical documentary film directed by James Marsh. And how one man's dream can now be shared by all of us in this film. . 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