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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Thanks for the clip, snake man! My ball python roommate Peanut thanks you too!
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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That NYT video is better than the film in a lot of ways- just stack that with all the climbing footage Jimmy please!!!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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You can buy the DVD on Amazon for 17 bucks or so.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2018 - 10:03am PT
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You can buy the DVD on Amazon for 17 bucks or so.
Preorder, for $9.99. "Get this movie as soon as it becomes available" (according to Amazon website).
Its still showing in 146 theaters in the US, and just starting its theatrical release in the UK, so don't expect a DVD anytime soon.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Preorder, for $9.99. They will ship as soon as it becomes available.
That's for the digital file, knott a Blu-ray.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2018 - 12:16pm PT
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That's for the digital file, knott a Blu-ray.
Thanks, Hardman Knott. I don't know the details. I got spoiled watching it on the big screen and don't intend to buy a DVD.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2018 - 06:42am PT
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"Free Solo" makes Vanity Fair's top 10 movies list for 2018, coming in at #4, ahead of "Mission Impossible Fallout" (#7) and "A Star is Born" (#8). Just one critics opinion, but it encompasses all genres, not just documentaries.
"Not for the faint of heart, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s harrowing climbing documentary would work well enough as simply that, a movie about a guy climbing a tall thing at the risk of life and limb. The climbing footage—of Alex Honnold scaling Yosemite’s El Capitan without any ropes—is ravishing, whether bracingly intimate or zoomed out for boggling scale. But Free Solo is more than just a death-defying sports movie. It’s also a fascinating character study of Honnold, a man whose processing of danger and fear is almost alienly different from most others’. Free Solo also turns a bit meta, with Vasarhelyi and Chin examining the effects and responsibilities of documentary filmmaking. It all bundles together into a sleek and fascinating feature, at once unnerving and triumphant, visceral and cerebral..."
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/best-movies-2018-top-10-list
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2018 - 09:56am PT
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This might be of interest if you're in the LA area on Thursday.
Thursday, Dec. 6: “Free Solo”: The first documentary in the series, “Free Solo” follows rock climber Alex Honnold as he attempts a record-breaking free climb – no ropes – of El Capitan in Yosemite. Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are guests for this one...Tickets for the screenings are $20, or $10 if you’re a Hammer member or become one. All screenings start at 7:30 p.m. ..
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/12/03/are-these-the-most-influential-films-of-2018/
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Any NorCal showings in the next month?
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2018 - 06:39pm PT
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Free Solo at #4 here...
Yes, ahead of "Mission Impossible Fallout" (#7) and "A Star is Born" (#8). Amazing.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2018 - 07:16am PT
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Those that don't subscribe may not be aware that there is an excellent article by Largo in the current edition of Rock and Ice, entitled "Are You Not Entertained?".
"Climbing's biggest film of all time knocks it out of the park"
Also good interviews with Alex and with Jimmy Chin about "Free Solo".
(Yes you have to pay)
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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starting to feel the same way about Alex as I do Bono.....
.....enough.
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