Two Very Interesting Choices...

**** 04.09.09 - Man On Wire... 2008... Director James Marsh

This documentary about artist/wire walker Philippe Petit's 1974 walk between the World Trade Center Towers is compelling from the second you put it in your DVD player.

Dating myself a little, I remember reading and hearing about this walk when I was a little kid and I remember when my parents took me to the top of the Twin Towers once, that a man had walked on a wire across them. Even if you never had the chance to be up on top of the buildings to see what it might have been like, you get a sense of the scope of this feat in this film.

At the core of it is the "Le Coup," the act of walking across the buildings, but this film is so much more. It gives you a look at the people involved and how they were brought together to do this amazing event and how they grew up as a family so to speak and how it changed them all the moment Petit comes off of the wire in 1974.

The DVD has a couple of interesting companion pieces, but the star of the DVD is the film itself and the passion for life, art and so much more!

*** 1/2 04.08.09 - Fight Club... 1999... Director David Fincher

I'm still not sure how this all worked out, but somehow "Fight Club" was the very first DVD I ever owned. I had a DVD player for a while, but never had owned a DVD until this one. And boy what a DVD it is... and that's what I mean... yes the film is entertaining. Brad Bitt, Helena Bonham Carter and Edward Norton are fantastic in it. David Fincher's unique visual spin on it is very hot as well, but what really makes this film was the DVD release.

There were so many extras in this DVD that it really set the tone for how a film should be marketed once it hit the home market. From the box to the menu screens this was and still is a very compelling DVD/Film.

The story itself is a good one and interesting on several levels, but if you want the true sense of what this film is about you have to buy the DVD and enjoy every bit of the marketing and more!