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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Man on Wire & The Walk
Description: [School of Movies 2022]
The Summer Commissions Season continues with an unexpected highlight.
Here we have a brace of films focusing on the same real life event: Man on Wire (2008) and The Walk (2015). The former is a documentary about Philippe Petit the man who walked on a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The latter is the Robert Zemekis dramatization of that fairly astonishing heist. We recommend you see one or both of them, because they're fantastic in different ways.
The year was 1974, the towers were in the process of...