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Favorite climbing film of all time?
Brandon.S wrote: Almost as good (and also uses "the only way down is up" line, in the trailer to boot) : |
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My favourite climbing video is probably "groove train" a 7 minute section from a documentary called Smitten. Smitten is pretty good, but a bit too Australian for me. Or "Floating" by Ryuichi Murai, which is a short vid about a highly unlikely looking V16 in Japan. https://youtu.be/zIOCIRd8Mxk |
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Best book I’ve read is : minus 148 , which is about the first winter ascent of Denali. The title refers to the windchill the climbers survived during their ascent. Epic literature! |
Heyzeus wrote: OK this is messing with my mind. I watched it laughed hard and thought what a brilliant spoof, whoever made it got the piss take spot on. But something didn't quite sit right. https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2188034585/?ref_=tt_vi_i_1 But it can't be real, it just can't, my head hurts. |
Neil B wrote: How does Ryan Phillipe still look 20 when he turns 50 next year? |
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Eiger Sanction- funniest climbing movie ever. |
Locker wrote:  Of course you think it's normal to look like that at 50, Locker, you won the same genetic lottery as Ryan. Blessed with good looks. Allow an average, ugly Joe to be a little jealous, will you? |
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Uncommon Ground (Northeast film) |
Ezra Ellis wrote: Art is still around up here in Anchorage, really awesome guy! |
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Solo. The short film from the 70s with the frog. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069296/ |
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“On the Rocks,” by Kathryn Johnston and Ian Stobie (1985). It’s a documentary about the state of the art of free climbing, featuring John Gill, Tony Yaniro, Jim Erickson, and others. |
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There's a good documentary on Joe Brown that's fun. Not best ever, but good: |
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Man, the stone masters series is pretty effin' great. |
Fail Falling wrote: King lines is still amazing Valley uprising is amazing if you spend a lot of time in the valley although it's treatment of warren Harding is laughable and misguided to say the least. How so? I know very little of Yosemite history, I just assumed Valley Uprising was legit |
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I only saw Uprising once and quite a while ago, so don’t remember the details, but did feel that while it was good and got a fair amount ‘right’, there were some glaring ‘slants’, omissions, and inaccuracies. While such things are virtually inevitable in a fairly short movie covering such a topic, it was still annoying. The one example that I can recall this morning, is that the movie, without explicitly saying so, gave the impression that Lynn Hill made the FFA of El Cap. |
Alan Rubin wrote: Only of The Nose. Skinner and Piana did the Salathe years earlier, right? Was it just a convolution or did you feel like it was kind of a deliberate slant? |
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Wish my memory of the film was better, but pretty much all I am left with is my general impression.That impression is that they had a specific story they wanted to tell and as a result left things out, which did create a ‘slant’. However, such things are basically inevitable when you are making a film ( or even writing an article or book). Still, as someone who was ‘around’ ( though definitely NOT even a ‘bit actor’) during the period, it was a bit annoying. As I said in my last post, the film pretty much gave the impression that Lynn’s free ascent of the Nose was the first free of El Cap—ignoring Skinner, Piana, the Hubers….. That is the one example that sticks in my memory. Still a good film within the context of the story they wanted to tell. |
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Viacruxis Masters of Stone 5 Front Range Freaks is pretty top notch, too, if youre a Colorado personality. |
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Maybe not the best, though an enjoyable story: "Free Climb: The Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1ujmpO4r7k It also has Robert Redford as the narrator. |
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High Anxiety (1974) ! |
