Man on Wire
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| Man On Wire | |
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| Directed by | James Marsh |
| Cinematography | Igor Martinovic |
| Editing by | Jinx Godfrey |
| Release date(s) | 2008 Sundance Film Festival: 22 January 2008 |
| Running time | 90 min |
| Country |  UK |
| Language | English |
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Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
It competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition[1] at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.[2]
In an interview conducted with Zoom In Online during Man on Wire's run at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, director James Marsh explained many of the reasons why he was drawn to such an inspirational, iconic documentary after his last project, the dark, incest dabbling feature The King. First and foremost, Marsh claims the film immediately struck him as "a heist movie" and after seeing how much collaboration and exhaustive planning went into planning "the coup," it's easy to understand Marsh's sentiments. Secondly, Marsh also comments that as a New Yorker himself, he sees the film as something to give back to the city. One of the greatest comments he could receive, he says, is to hear someone say that they will now always think of Petit and his performance when recalling the World Trade Center's twin towers.[1]
[edit] References
- Rohner, Jim. "On the Circuit: Man on Wire", Zoom In Online, 2008-05-12. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
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| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Vores lykkes fjender (Enemies of Happiness) |
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary 2008 |
Succeeded by n/a |
| Preceded by In the Shadow of the Moon |
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary 2008 |
Succeeded by n/a |
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