Heads up - Man On Wire

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Tonight BBC2 9pm.

If you haven't seen it this is a fantastic movie, the best I saw last year and a worth winner of an Academy Award. It's a great story beautifully told. (Even better is the DVD that has 2 additional documentaries on it).

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If you rent the dvd it has about 2 hours of extra documentary footage, including a really good piece about the Sydney Harbour caper. (At least the US release did). The docs are as good as the film.

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Steamer said:

Awesome! What a guy!?!

Just one question though, I got a bit distracted towards the end - Round about the part where his girlfriend said they split up not long afterwards, why did his friend suddenly breakdown and start to cry in the interview? (I assumed it was the understandable emotional connection with the towers & sept 11th)

My reading of that situation is that they all felt betrayed because in the moment of triumph instead of celebrating with them what was, after all, a team effort Phillipe chose to go off and shag some American stranger.

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sevros1981 said:

Breathtaking film. It was refreshing to watch something that didn't cost millions to make, didn't need a huge ad campaign to get people to the cinema and wasn't reliant on a "name" actor for its success. Too much Hollywood tat in the cinema at the moment. More of this. Immediately.

I was amazed and very pleased when it won an Oscar as the Americans just don't get this kind of film. Our local Blockbuster in Indy had 1 copy of it but 100 copies of the execrable Speedracer! Likewise only 1 theatre in the whole city showed Frost / Nixon whereas they all had Beverly Hills fking Chiauaua!

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shirt said:

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HRG. said:

I want some artwork of that...

me too, surely there must be som available somewhere? thats todays internet searching sorted.

can't find anything other than a film poster. i want something akin to the image above, preferable panoramic with philippe to one side.

You have to remember that it all happened in 74 and the only pics from up top are the ones they took themselves. So I'm guessing it's unlikely that any really good snaps exist.

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shirt said:

i think you're getting the blokes mixed up. it was the short haired guy who [off camera, with a clip looking out of an aircraft window] talked about a falling out with philippe as he was with him on the tower and was deported. i think long haired blokey was just a touch sensitive/arty and in awe of the beauty of what they'd done etc.

IIRC none of them have had anything to do with Phillipe since the "coup". They alluded to the tensions in the camp during the film and I got the distinct feeling that the event marked the end of the road for the team as Phillipe became a superstar and the others went back to France.

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minimoog said:

HRG. said:

I want some artwork of that...

Prints available here

http://jlblondeau.com/collection.php?collection_id...

Ahh... Well done. That's Jean-Louis Blondeau, the main accomplice. I'm guessing that they are not great technically but 66 is fantastic for the look on Phillipe's face and 68 and 69 are the iconic pics.

Query sent.

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shirt said:

unrepentant - would you mind letting me know how you get on re: your enquiry? i have a feeling prints may be a tad expensive but if they are near to what i can afford i think a couple of those would look great in my living room.

Ewwww................ Just received this;

Dear Paul,

Thanks so much for your interest in Jean Louis’ photos.

The three different sized editions are
priced as follows :

1) The signed open edition 12 X 16 prints are $600.00

2) The signed open edition 16 X 20 prints are $1000.00

3) The 20 X 24 signed limited edition of 1 - 25 are $2,500.00
All prints are sold unframed, and the price doesn’t include shipping .

etc........


Your instincts re them being a "tad expensive" were right!