Jul 4th 

Man on Wire**                                                  

(GB/US 2007)
Discovery Films/Wall to Wall/Red Box Films. 90m.

In 1974 French tightrope artists Philippe Petit with his collaborators makes an audacious attempt to walk between the two towers of the World Trade Centre.
Atmospheric documentary which irritatingly flashes back and forth between the event itself and the meticulous preparation, missing certain details such as spells of imprisonment for the illegal stunts, but invaluably capturing some of the original footage, making the whole bonkers enterprise as breathtaking as it was in 1974, and especially nostalgic in view of the World Trade Centre's later fate (which is never mentioned).

Producer: Simon Chinn.
Director: James Marsh.
Featuring: Philippe Petit, Jean-Francois Heckel, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Annie Allix, David Forman, Alan Welner, and others.
Photography: Igot Martinovic.
Editing: Jinx Godfrey.