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Man On Wire

March 2016

  • Some of the 50 best documentaries... but which are your favourites?

    50 documentaries you need to see

    Ten of the best nonfiction film-makers today choose their own favourites, from serial killer stories to meta pranks.

September 2015

  • Waaaaa! Joseph Gordon Levitt in The Walk

    Zemeckis 3D high-wire biopic The Walk 'giving audiences vertigo'

    Immersive retelling of death-defying high-wire walk reportedly causes nausea, and in some case vomiting
  • Robert Zemeckis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Robert Zemeckis talks The Walk as New York Film Festival opens

    Director says film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt captures glory of Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful'

    After years as the supporting act, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Oscar-tipped for his performances as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and wire-walker Philippe Petit. He talks about his head for heights – and a secret meeting in Moscow

August 2015

  • Everest composite

    Venice film festival takes on Everest as it regains ground lost to younger rivals

  • Alexandra Shulman, editor-in-chief of British Vogue, in her London office.

    BBC's British Vogue documentary to be made by Oscar-winning producer

July 2015

  • Don't try this at home … Robbie Knievel flies over a gap across Arizona's Grand Canyon on 20 May, 1999 before crashing and sustaining injuries.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about safety … and danger

    Hot spillages to electrifying risks, broken glass to scary stunts, name your songs that include details of physical danger and ways to stay away from harm, says Peter Kimpton

August 2014

  • channel4

    Channel 4 takes step towards getting into TV production

  • theory of everything stephen hawking eddie redmayne felicity jones

    First trailer revealed for Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything

January 2014

July 2011

  • Man on Wire

    Best and worst of Britain's subsidised film-makers revealed

    Man on Wire's James Marsh among just three film-makers to repay lottery funding in full since 2006, according to recent report

December 2008

  • N Barry Greenhouse, one of the people who helped Philippe Petit plan his high-wire walk between the twin towers in 1974

    Transatlantic Walters
    Man On Wire's inside man: 'Philippe sucks you in'

    N Barry Greenhouse was the inside man who helped a petite Frenchman plan his tightrope walk between the twin towers in 1974. As the film of the coup, Man On Wire, graces our critics' poll of the best films of 2008, Ben Walters meets him

August 2008

  • Man on Wire

    Man on Wire

    In 1974, Philippe Petit shocked New York with his World Trade Centre high-wire act. It makes a riveting film, says Peter Bradshaw

July 2008

  • Nonso Anozie in Cass

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly on Cass and Man on Wire

  • Trailer park
    Film trailer: Man on Wire

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