To the Limit
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 21, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: First Run Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Featured: | Thomas Huber & Alexander Huber | |
| Directed by | Pepe Danquart | |
| Composition by | Cristoph Israel & Dorian Cheah | |
| Produced by | Kirsten Hager, Erich Lackner & Mirjam Quinte | |
| Director of Photography: | Wolfgang Thaler |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/5 --
It isn't Danquart's fault that his subjects couldn't match his documentary's aims. But it is his fault that his film refuses to acknowledge it.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
So nerve-racking is its death-defying rock climbing footage that To the Limit could have easily been renamed Vertigo without giving the master of suspense any postmortem unease.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
Many American sports documentaries tend to fall into a predictable inspirational rut, no matter how stunning the footage. Pepe Danquart's To the Limit from Germany looks great, but it's an altogether different animal.
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New York Post
Rating: 3/4 --
Director Pepe Danquart and his cinematographers give us lots of splendid mountainscapes, but more importantly, they put the cameras right there with the climbers; we see, up close, every strained muscle and grimace.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 3/5 --
In To the Limit, Thomas and Alexander Huber run up rocks the way some of us run up credit cards -- rapidly, fearlessly and with little regard for consequences.
New York Times
Danquart chose to omit all maps, charts, graphics and identifying captions, a decision that severely restricts To the Limit's appeal for non-aficionados.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 3/4 --
Mountain-climbing undertaken with a manic sense of urgency.
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NewsBlaze
Product Description:
Thomas and Alexander Huber are reputed to be the world's greatest mountain climbers. In this documentary, the brothers travel to Yosemite National Park to break the speed record for scaling the sheer walls of El Capitan. This intense journey takes viewers alongside the brothers as they push themselves to the limits of what is possible.
Description by First Run Features Home Video:
Thomas and Alexander Huber rank as two of the best mountain climbers ever. Now the brothers set out to break the record in speed climbing the 2,900 foot sheer cliff known as ‘The Nose' of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
Extreme sports don't come any more extreme than speed rock-climbing. In their attempt to set a world record, the Hubers compress a three-day ascent for regular climbers into less than three hours. Intensive practice and split-second timing are required, and one false step can bring fatal disaster.
Featuring breathtaking footage of the mountains of Patagonia and Yosemite National Park, Academy Award® winner Pepe Danquart (Hell on Wheels) follows the Huber brothers to locations never before reached by a film crew, capturing two competitive brothers who go to the very edge.
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- Sales Rank: 92,720
- UPC: 720229913461
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