From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New ...
Robert Zemeckis’ “The Walk’’ reaches for the sky when aerialist Philippe Petit mounts a wire perilously stretched between the original World Trade Center towers, two-thirds of the way through this ...
“Friendship! And Equilibrium,” Philippe Petit says. He lifted a glass of Prosecco. “Friendship. And Equilibrium!” he repeats. The E-word hovers, as if capitalized. We are a small group on the porch of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Reality can always be improved. That's the assumption behind Robert Zemeckis' gut-churning dramatisation of Philippe Petit's high-wire ...
There’s a battle behind the scenes of “The Walk” — about Philippe Petit’s midair balancing act between the Twin Towers — with one of the movie’s subjects saying Petit walked a tightrope to fame and ...
EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be the first project from Tom Rothman’s TriStar Productions, the Sony-based film company is in the process of acquiring To Reach The Clouds, the working title of ...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has selected The Walk to open the 53rd New York Film Festival on September 25 at Alice Tully Hall. The Robert Zemeckis-directed film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as as ...
You may think that a wire-walker has little or nothing to do with jazz or art. But to me, wire-walking is all about rhythm, balance and expression. In the case of Philippe Petit—perhaps the world's ...
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