Man on Wire: Directed by James Marsh. With Philippe Petit, Jean François Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix. A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center'
The movie tells the story of Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), who bears a face disfigured by child torture into a permanent smile, because his noble father refuse to obey the King of England. He makes a living with his adopted father, Ursus (Cesare Gravina) & girlfriend, a beauty blind woman...
there is little information about how he became that person. He had changed his surname, changed professions, and generally lived the life of a dilettante until taking up the cause of bears. Unfortunately, How did he become the man that he was?
(2013). DNA tests on six-inch skeleton of ‘alien-looking’ creature with over-sized head prove it was actually human claim scientists in new documentary. Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2325376/DNA-tests-inch-skeleton-alien-looking-creature-oversized-head-prove-huma...
This is the doc about that guy--you know the one--he lived in the wild and filmed grizzly bears until he and his gf got mauled to death by the bears? It's a very good documentary because it's an interested topic and Timothy Treadwell is a really eccentric character. It provokes a...
Menkin and Nir follow Nachoum to the Canadian Artic, where he assembles a team that includes an acclaimed underwater cinematographer, Adam Ravetch (who shot portions of this documentary), and an Inuit named Joe Kaludjak, an elderly, hearty man of the earth who’s lived on this la...
Now he’s turning the spotlight on her as the star of a documentary he’s filming in his old London neighborhood, where she still lives. “She’s 75, she lived through the Blitz in London and she talks about the war with such a fondness. It was the best time in her life,” he ...
‘this single-manual instrument was to combine an up-striking piano action, the one already invented by Backers in 1771 with a harpsichord action.’Footnote68 The Smithsonian Institution holds in its collection a combination instrument that bears Stodart's name on the name-board; however, the ...
By incredible luck, a TV crew had arrived on the island to film a documentary. They arranged to get Peter to hospital in Perth, where his displaced spine was corrected. But he still bears the scars, both physical and mental, of his ordeal. "I can't believe I made it," he says...
’ Waters has been seeking $1 million for an employment center in her district that bears her name, but Obey has decided to ban any ‘monuments to me’ when it comes to funding project requests this ye...