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Touching the Void **** (2003, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron) – Classic Movie Review 10,767
Director Kevin Macdonald’s 2003 Touching the Void is the breathtakingly exciting and awesome Bafta award-winning documentary-style drama, re-creating the events of 1985 when two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, try to scale the west […]
The White Tower *** (1950, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains, Oscar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 10,753
Director Ted Tetzlaff’s 1950 The White Tower is a thrilling and intelligent mountain-climbing melodrama with an exciting cast and plenty of sub-text meaning about six people risking their lives to scale an unclimbed Matterhorn-like mountain […]
Free Solo **** (2018, Alex Honnold, Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Sanni McCandless) – Movie Review
Free Solo (2018) is an exhilarating, nail-biting, penetrating, revealing documentary on the weird life and times of rock climbing phenomenon Alex Honnold. It is nominated for one Oscar for Best Documentary Feature (for Jimmy Chin, […]
The Eiger Sanction * (1975, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4112
Director-star Clint Eastwood slipped in the picturesque but poor-quality 1975 mountain thriller The Eiger Sanction between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). They are two of his finest movies and this is […]
Sherpa *** (2015) – Movie Review
Writer-director Jennifer Peedom’s riveting documentary looks at the plight of the brave but increasingly desperate local sherpas as big business, tourism and capitalists take over Mount Everest. It seems to air all the facts in […]
Everest **½ (2015, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright) – Movie Review
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, Two Guns) tells the old, old tale of man going up against mountain and coming up against a huge obstacle. But what is the story? His 1996 real-life scenario (in a […]
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