Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Man on wire / Magnolia Pictures ; Discovery Films, BBC Storyville and the UK Film Council present a Wall to Wall production, in association with Red Box Films ; directed by James Marsh ; produced by Simon Chinn.

Publisher, Date:

Los Angeles, California : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

Wide screen

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

"On August 7th, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail, before finally being released. This extraordinary documentary incorporates Petit's personal footage to show how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to achieve the artistic crime of the century"--Container.

Audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some sexuality, nudity, and drug use.

Contents

"On August 7th, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail, before finally being released. This extraordinary documentary incorporates Petit's personal footage to show how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to achieve the artistic crime of the century" -- Container.

Partial Contents List

Special features (approximately 43 min.): Philippe Petit -- Sydney, 1973 (a film by James Ricketson) (20 min.) -- Man on wire: An interview with Philippe Petit (approximately 13 min.) -- The man who walked between the Towers (Scholastic ; Weston Woods Studios presents) [animated film] (c2005, approximately 10 min.).

Participant or Performer:

Philippe Petit.

Notes:

Originally produced in 2007.

Based on the memoir: To reach the clouds by Philippe Petit.

Aspect ratio 1.78:1.

Special features (approximately 43 min.): Sydney Harbor Bridge crossing (1973) (a film by James Ricketson) (20 min.) -- Man on wire: an interview with Philippe Petit (approximately 13 min.) -- The man who walked between the Towers ([presented by] Scholastic ; Weston Woods Studios) [animated film] (©2005, approximately 10 min.).

Director of photography, Igor Martinovic ; film editor, Jinx Godfrey ; music, Michael Nyman and J. Ralph.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0.

For private home use only.

In English and French with English subtitles; optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Academy Awards, 2009: Best Documentary, Features ; Sundance Film Festival, 2008: Grand Jury Prize, Wolrd Cinema - Documentary; Audience Award, World Cinema - Documentary.

Subjects:

Petit, Philippe, 1949-

Petit, Philippe, 1949- -- Juvenile films.

World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001) -- History.

Aerialists -- France -- Biography.

Tightrope walking -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Historical reenactments (Motion pictures)

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.