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Warren Miller's Storm
Release Date: 2003-09-16
Sales rank: 6475
STORM transports viewers from Steamboat’s world-famous champagne powder to the striking, colossal peaks of Alaska and from the legendary ski town of Aspen to the glorious Austrian Alps. Join the Antarctic expedition across turbulent seas to the Isle of South Georgia, a wind-whipped crag of ice and snow in the South Atlantic. Skill and passion abound as skiing legends and up-and-coming stars chase the storm, risking their lives in a powerful once-in-a-lifetime journey. The amazing soundtrack includes Dave Matthews Band, Ani DiFranco, Nickel Creek and other hugely and other hugely popular artists.Warren Miller's Storm is another dazzling travelogue of extreme snow-sports fanatics doing their thing in the most amazing places on Earth. Join Storm's crew on a helicopter skiing trip to beautiful Blue River, British Columbia, and later get inside the psychology of Aspen, Colorado, residents who live for snow and spend every day in the mountains. Take a retrospective detour to Sun Valley, where property was once cheap, Hemingway and Gary Cooper vacationed together, and Miller--now almost 80--began shooting his first 8mm ski movies in 1947. Cross the desert in Lake Tahoe to ascend white-topped hills ripe for snowboarding, and hang out with extreme bikers for whom cities, parks, campuses, and mountains are all part of the same stunt-worthy surface. The film's grandest segment finds skier-climbers replicating Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated trip to Antarctica's South Georgia Island, one of the most haunting and astonishing spots on the planet. --Tom Keogh |
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Warren Miller's Power of Snow Collection (Storm/Cold Fusion/Ride/Fifty)
Release Date: 2003-09-16
Sales rank: 15407
No other filmmakers are more passionate about documenting the human drama and thrills of winter action sports and adventure than those at Warren Miller Entertainment. For over 50 years their films have raised the bar by venturing to the planet's extremes to capture the greatest athletes of our times pushing the limits of human ability. Warren Miller's THE POWER OF SNOW is their first-ever DVD collection and features the latest titles: Storm, Cold Fusion and Ride, with the classic 50th anniversary release Fifty included as a bonus DVD. Each disc features brilliant 5.1 surround sound, behind-the-scenes extras, and feature trailers. From Greenland to the South Georgia Islands to Iran and Wisconsin - these films bring you spectacular skiing and snow boarding from the top of the world and home again. Add to all this action the hottest contemporary music and personal commentary and it's easy to see why they have created a worldwide following that spans generations.One needn't be an extreme snow-sports enthusiast to enjoy the beauty, wit, and endlessly inventive action-cinematography of Warren Miller's films. A pioneer in sports filmmaking, Miller began his career--as we find out in this excellent, four-title boxed set--shooting 8mm footage in 1947 Sun Valley, Idaho, keeping body and soul together with ketchup soup and wild rabbits. A half-century-plus later, Miller produces, narrates, and occasionally provides a cameo in his films; three of them, included here, are travelogues set in some of the wildest, most dazzling, and even exotic places on Earth. The best of the lot, Cold Fusion, involves serious globe-hopping through four continents: Join a long, long hike through Kenya to ski what remains of a disappearing glacier, and later watch the surreal ballet of multiple "aerialists" launched high on the slopes at Colorado's Winter Park Big Air Expedition. Scale up--and snowboard down--an impossibly steep peak in Waddington, U.K., and then, believe it or not, ski Iran, a place "between dreams and awakening, of hot tea and cherry tobacco." Ride provides its own thrills, traipsing after Whistler's avalanche hunters as they launch explosives clearing landslides before landslides clear skiers. Stick around for stops in New Zealand and France, plus helicopter skiing in the North Cascades, snowboarding the bouncy trail of the Breckenridge Bumps, and cross a war zone in Russia to reach (via creaky cable cars and choppers) the top of Europe. Storm continues the fun in British Columbia's Blue River, Aspen's Roaring Fork Valley, Lake Tahoe, and Antarctica's South Georgia Island, the haunting first site of Ernest Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated voyage. Rounding out this DVD collection is the retrospective Fifty, an album of highlights (e.g., snowboarding in the Chugach Range, near the site of the Valdez crash) that takes a fun, then-and-now approach. --Tom Keogh |
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Warren Miller's Cold Fusion
Release Date: 2003-09-16
Sales rank: 9637
As his 52nd annual release, Warren Miller once again brings out the hard-core rider in each of us. His films throw us into an infinite journey of intense snowbound aerobatics, goofy lift moments, and historic segments all through acres of snow, and gliding to a sweet musical score like no other. Cold Fusion offers the best of all worlds. One of Miller's best films, Cold Fusion will spoil even the most extreme rider. Capturing some of his most profound moments from earlier movies, Cold Fusion is as awe-inspiring as his two-year-old classic, Fifty, which also documented some of ski history's most impressive, and most hilarious moments. If Cold Fusion does not entice that yearly craving for snow, the classic sound of Warren's old, yet soothing voice surely will. Ride on, and wear a helmet.Cold Fusion is simply one of Warren Miller's most staggering documentaries. Released in 2001, this two-hour-plus film pours on (and on) a mix of remarkable action footage, breathtaking terrain, and unexpected exotica. Miller joins world-class athletes on four continents for extreme sporting that, at times, borders on the unimaginable. Join a pair of diehard skiers who hike through Kenya to ride what remains of an ancient glacier. Or gape at the Big Air Expedition in Winter Park, Colorado, where multiple "aerialists" (skiers who gain high altitudes in order to turn, twist, and spin upon descent) provide a cinematic phantasmagoria. (One of the film's two record-breaking events takes place here.) Superb chapters are also set in Verbier, Switzerland and Waddington, U.K., but it's hard to beat the incredible snowboarding feats captured in gorgeous Girdwood, Alaska, or a ski adventure in, of all places, Iran. --Tom Keogh |
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Breakthrough on Skis III: The New Skis
Release Date: 1998-10-01
Sales rank: 12573
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One California Day
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Sales rank: 26481
A perceptive look at California surf culture, its history, present state, and future potential. A visual journey through six distinct coastal regions, capturing the California surfing experience through the surfers who live it, while also exploring the important heritage and tradition of surfing in California. Shot in brilliant super 16mm color film, the movie examines the variety of subtle differences that make California so unique and famous around the world for its beach culture. An instant classic. |
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Nordic Skiing Technique
Release Date: 2006-03-01
Sales rank: 12547
The technique volume in the Science of Nordic Skiing series represents a clear view to the most current understanding of technique and instruction. The project has engaged key principals, elite skiers, recognized experts and thought-leaders in the sport; consolidated their ideas and arrived at a progressive and highly-effective approach to the technique, which you can apply directly to your skiing and fast-track your development this season. This is the most comprehensive work on nordic skiing technique ever produced and represents an enduring product, all for the price of a ski lesson Part 1 of the Science of Nordic Skiing DVD series provides an in-depth examination of the sports science. It is tailored to engage the skier the more richly, with clever and concise delivery of technique. Other volumes cover training, equipment and advanced moves. This series is intended for intermediate, advanced and expert level skiers, coaches, instructors and for the certification of nordic ski professionals. Every DVD in the series provides a highly interactive toolkit; using menus, multiple viewing angles, alternate audio tracks, and subtitles. The DVD-ROM features also include: technical manuals, multimedia explanations, critical and alternative analysis, bio-mechanical modeling, narrative scripts, hyperlinks to on-line resources, MP3 audio books, a photo gallery, behind the scenes footage and bonus movies. |
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Alex Kovalev - My Training Methods
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Sales rank: 28070
In this DVD 2-disc set, Alex Kovalev demonstrates his on-ice hockey training methods as well as the exercise program developed for him by his personal trainer, Tommy Sheehan. This interactive set shows each exercise and technique from various angles and allows you to switch back and forth between on-ice and off-ice exercises. |
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Fresh start snowboarding
Release Date: 2006-12-05
Sales rank: 14101
Learn to Snowboard with Aspen native Kurt Kalinna (full certified A.S.I.A. SB teaching professional) and co-host Huckdoll. "Graphpaper Progressions" is the highlighed process that brings the basics in perpective. Shot at Northstar and Mt. Rose in Tahoe; this novice edition draws on Kurt's 12 years of teaching experience to teach you the fundamentals one slope at a time. Simulated run, second set of demos with commentary and "what is a back up turn?" are just some of the bonus features." Viewing this before you go out and make your great attempt to snowboard could be the difference between success and...?" |
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Classic Ski Films
Release Date: 2005-11-21
Sales rank: 12171
9 classic ski films. 3 legendary filmmakers. 1 distinctive collection. From the TOPICS ENTERTAINMENT video vault, comes CLASSIC SKI FILMS, the 1st title in the new series aptly named, "Films of Distinction - Treasures of the American Cinema". Classic Ski Films relives the Golden Age of Alpine Skiingâ€"from 1940s Hollywood coming to Sun Valley, Idaho for lessons, to the birth of hotdogging in 1970s Aspenâ€"with Classic Ski Films on DVD. Whether it was the first WWII training film for U.S. mountain troops, or the pageantry and power of the 1960 Winter Olympics, three extraordinary pioneering filmmakers captured it through the lens of history. * The Films of Distinction line is an exclusive archival video series bringing the work of pioneering producers and filmmakers to the attention of today’s discerning audiences. Look for other DVD boxed sets in the Films of Distinction library, available from TOPICS Entertainment®. |
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The Burton Snowboards: For Right or Wrong
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Sales rank: 32702
Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/06/2007 |
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