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MAN ON WIRE
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some sexuality and nudity, and drug references
90 mins 2008 (UK) In English and French with Subtitles
Winner - Sundance Film Festival - 2008:
Audience Award - World Cinema Documentary
Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Documentary
James Marsh (dir.)
Starring Phillipe Petit
SHOWTIMES:
SAT 3:00 5:30 8:00
SUN 4:30 7:00
TUES 6:00
WEDS 7:00
THURS 2:00 7:00
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. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. 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.” (Magnolia Pictures)
"One of the most wildly entertaining docs of recent years." -- Robert Koehler, Variety
"Thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary." --A.O. Scott, New York Times
**** -- "Director James Marsh's hypnotic movie documents French wire walker Philippe Petit's unauthorized, 45-minute balancing act 110 stories above New York in August 1974." --Joe Newmaier, New York Daily News
A -- "[A] breathtaking documentary about that mad-genius coup achieved over three decades ago."
--Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
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