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Jordan Ramey
Trad climber
Oklahoma City, OK
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 7, 2008 - 10:10pm PT
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Umm, that certainly complicates things. I figured I could turn on the subtitles if it had 'em. Well, does anyone know a way to get it from a non-german site or will I have to find myself a "bavarian connection"?
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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If "Am Limit" is made for Europe - PAL video plus European region 2, you might want to get a region free DVD player.
Some of the Philips models, like the DVP5140, do conversion on the fly from PAL to NTSC, so you dont need a European TV. You can go into setup and "hack" or unlock the region restrictions - do a google search for the steps for the player model.
You can also just use computer. Many applications play both NTSC and PAL video.
SFgate had a good article on this over Xmas:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/26/DDRFTO398.DTL
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Jordan Ramey
Trad climber
Oklahoma City, OK
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2008 - 07:50pm PT
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Yeah, I figured it would be encoded in a different region. This would be much easier if they just released it here. Thanks for the info.
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Estebi
climber
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So did Am Limit ever get released? Does anybody know how to see this film?
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Any newer Macintosh can play PAL format DVDs. You may have to sacrifice other regions to do it. You can also buy PAL or universal DVD players for not too much dough. I have one for the living room that I got for a buck-fifty and it works swell.
If you like climbing movies, there are STACKS of Euro productions out there--many (if not most)of much higher production quality than the standard grommet-with-buddies-and-a-camcorder stuff that circulates here. Go to Amazon.fr or Amazon.de and party like a Roman.
The only downside is that the key principle of the past administration's fiscal policy was to devalue the dollar as much as possible in order to pump up US exports from swing states. Thanks to other factors beyond US control, that strategy worked far better than anyone appears to have anticipated, so now it costs almost twice as much to buy anything European. Still, I'd buy now, since in another six months it may cost three times as much.
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Prod
Social climber
Charlevoix, MI
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I saw it at the Yosemite Facelift last year. My take was that it should have been about 1/2 as long, and all of the psycholigical BS about brother envy, and weird dreams should have been edited out. The climbing was awe inspiring. You can see all of the good parts on youtube in about 20 minutes.
Prod.
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miller.545
Sport climber
Overland Park, KS
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Apr 16, 2008 - 07:30pm PT
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saw it @ the facelift too. definitely agreed.
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Dell
Trad climber
New Paltz, NY
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Jun 13, 2008 - 10:20am PT
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"To the Limit" opens today in the Cinema Village in New York City (in German, with subtitles).
Perhaps this is a sign it will have a slightly larger release?
cheers
Dell
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jun 13, 2008 - 12:08pm PT
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As mentioned, it opens today here in NYC. I'm planning to see it on Monday. I also checked on Netflix, and though the film is listed in the search, it says they have no date for release, nor can they guarantee they will carry the title.
If I had a video cam, I could do a Kramer and tape it at the movie hous, complete with a tall person's head blocking part of the Screen....
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billygoat
climber
3hrs to El Cap Meadow, 1.25hrs Pinns, 42min Castle
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Jun 21, 2008 - 05:42pm PT
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Ya'll should try searching for Chongo movies on Netflix.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jun 21, 2008 - 07:39pm PT
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Saw it on monday in NYC.
Agree entirely with Prod's review.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Just got an email from the enews@speedclimb.com list:
"(Hans Florine) will be doing a QnA at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco on Monday evening the 11th. The movie showing is "To the Limit". It is a film about the Huber Brothers, a German team, and their attempt to break the Nose Route speed Record on El Capitan in Yosemite.
More: http://www.roxie.com/events/details.cfm?eventID=4F9C2F9C-F1F6-5CD4-1D7F6D9C76F5A91B
There is a 7pm showing and an 8:50 pm showing. (Hans) will be doing QnA between the shows at around 8:30 pm."
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Looking at the link above, its says "To the Limit" will be showing Fri, Aug 8 to Thurs, Aug 14. Am looking forward to finally seeing this film, and on a big screen.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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That's kind of a burn.
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Release date to dvd 10.21.08
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Um... In that clip... Alex is counting down... And they are way off the deck... Was this a time trial, like to make a section of the climb more efficient, or was that the official (unofficial) start... If so.. How can it be that they could have called it a record? Let's start timing from way up there...?
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saa
climber
berkeley, ca
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Most of the film shows trials. The only parts of the real record runs are when Thomas gets hurt in 2006 (he then got 5 operations, yikes), and in the epilogue which shows the Oct 8 2007 ending. They get to the tree and collapse, exhausted. The rest is filmed in fall 2005 and fall 2006 during their training runs.
I think Max Reichel filmed the 2007 epilogue, not Pepe Danquart.
Yuji Hirayama was escorted by a TV crew in June-July 2008. There may be a version of that somewhere on a Japanese website. Anyone knows?
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