In the midst Himalayan Mountains there stands a figure that looms over the world like none other. Known to the world as Mount Everest, this juggernaut of natural beauty and signifier of the grand nature of the natural world has, for generations, inspired many a person to try and brave some of the most harsh and uncompromising conditions to say that they indeed conquered this giant mountain.
Almost 100 years after one of the first expeditions, Kino Lorber has recently released a brand new Blu-ray of the documentary that truly introduced the world to the beauty, and danger, of Everest. Entitled The Epic of Everest, the film was offered up to the world by Captain John Noel, and told the story the 1924 Everest expedition led by two of the great climbers of the early 1900s, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Both legends would perish during their journey, and while it would...
Almost 100 years after one of the first expeditions, Kino Lorber has recently released a brand new Blu-ray of the documentary that truly introduced the world to the beauty, and danger, of Everest. Entitled The Epic of Everest, the film was offered up to the world by Captain John Noel, and told the story the 1924 Everest expedition led by two of the great climbers of the early 1900s, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Both legends would perish during their journey, and while it would...
- 9/15/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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Captain Phillips (12A)
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Enough Said (12A)
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Captain Phillips (12A)
(Paul Greengrass, 2013, Us) Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Michael Chernus. 134 mins
No room for Depp-like jollity aboard this pirate tale. Instead, Greengrass brings his usual reportage-style urgency to a true-life Indian Ocean hijack situation. It's tense, credible and intelligent, even if pitting four Somali fishermen against Hanks, a big ship and formidable back-up is a pretty unfair contest – that very imbalance is part of the point.
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