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Jim Clipper
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In any award acceptance speech, I hope they lead with "First, I'd like to thank el captain..."
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Happy Cowboy
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Boz MT
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Tonight “Free Solo” plays at the Bozeman Icefest. I’ve tickets to the early show. Excited!
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 9, 2018 - 04:47am PT
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LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 08: Jimmy, Chai, Clair Popkin, Shannon Dill, Mikey Schaefer and Evan Hayes of Free Solo attended the 2018 IDA Documentary Awards last night in LA. They had been nominated for Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinemetography and were hoping for awards, but were bested by Minding the Gap and Distant Constellation.
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Rattlesnake Arch
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2018 - 06:30am PT
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In the past few days Free Solo was passed over for Best Documentary awards in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where it had been Nominated by the respective Film Critics groups. This adds to a list that includes New York, Washington DC, Detroit, Amsterdam, and Toronto among others.
Metacritic reports Free Solo has garnered a total of 11 Best Documentary Nominations from important Critics organizations (which is tied for the lead and impressive in itself), but no Wins. Leading the pack in Wins are Won't You Be My Neighbor (5), and Minding The Gap (3).
Seems most Critics think Free Solo is a very good documentary, one of the top 5 of the year, just not the best. At least so far...
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Don Paul
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Washington DC
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Dec 11, 2018 - 01:31pm PT
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Got this email today:
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2018 - 04:14pm PT
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Alex, Chai, and Jimmy are in London for the UK Premier of Free Solo. They will do a satellite simulcast Q&A to theatres across the UK and Ireland. General release is Dec. 14.
Free Solo will release in the Netherlands January 10.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2018 - 04:49am PT
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Audiences love Free Solo. In addition to previous Audience Awards at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Mill Valley FF, and Virginia FF,
The National Geographic Documentary Film recently won the Long and Mattone Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature during the 11th annual Hamptons Doc Fest at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
“We are thrilled to win the audience award at Hamptons Doc Fest,” directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi said on learning of the award. “It’s wonderful to have the film be so well received in a place that is so special to us.”
https://sagharborexpress.com/bits-free-solo-takes-audience-award-meteor-shower-ina-bookhampton-sonnier-parrish/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 13, 2018 - 05:39am PT
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Minerals' link has an interesting from Alex-to-self missive at its tag end, but I'm pretty sure (99%) it's an invention by the writer of the article, making it Flake News.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2018 - 06:03am PT
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Minerals' link has an interesting from Alex-to-self missive at its tag end, but I'm pretty sure (99%) it's an invention by the writer of the article, making it Flake News.
Not flake news...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Roger Breedlove
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Dec 15, 2018 - 07:14am PT
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Both the existential gym climber's and the "Note to Self" videos are pretty good.
Now, which one is the parody?
Stay safe, stay fecal free: climb via YouTube.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 15, 2018 - 07:26am PT
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I stand corrected on the Flake News.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2018 - 11:51am PT
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A good Alex and Sanni interview from last summer, just after Telluride but before Free Solo was generally released. Sanni talks about her experience of the filming (including being accused of "dropping" Alex).
https://www.jeremyrjensen.com/alex-honnold
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