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... skiers abandoned the course in favor of lift-served ski hills, it gradually deteriorated until it was just another hiking trail in the Mount Greylock State Reservation, skied by no one but a few devoted Thunderbolt Downhill racers. ...
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An upstart & cocky ski racer (Redford) from Idaho Springs, Colorado, is suddenly promoted to the US Ski Team. He joins the team in mid-season in Europe, and immediately clashes with the team's head coach (Hackman) and the more ...
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But in the case of Downhill Racer, one of the best of the many adventurous, probing, and bracing films Hollywood made (sometimes in spite of itself) from roughly 1967 to 1975, it was the fortuitous combination of contributions by three ...
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by flyonthewall2983 (Posted Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:29 am) Watched this over the weekend too. It's certainly interesting to see Redford in a more non-traditional leading man-type role, but some of it dragged for a bit. ...
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The two day event will feature both giant slalom and downhill racing. Two days of fast racing on challenging courses. Racers can expect courses/runs to be approx. one minute in length – some of the longest, fastest GS racing ever. ...
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The concept for Downhill Racer came pretty easily: the film, about an arrogant but talented athlete, has some really dynamic skiing visuals, and a freeze-frame sequence during the opening credits that just begs to be made into a cover. ...
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Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer is one of the dullest sports movies ever made, which is precisely the point, after all, for how else to convey the spirit of the time in which it was made than by associating athletic endeavor with grim ...
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According to Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, in 2004 voted Downhill Racer, 1969 "The best movie ever made about sports -- without really being about sports at all." The film stars Robert Redford and Gene Hackman. ...
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A forgotten Redford film gets the Criterion treatment this week, leading Bob Cashill to reappraise Downhill Racer -- heck, to watch it for the first time.
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Caught up with Criterion's characteristically excellent release of 'Downhill Racer', another film that reveals Michael Ritchie as an under-appreciated director (Honeslty, imdb-chatters, have you really nothing to say about the guy who ...
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Athlete as a jerk: "Downhill Racer". All movies about sports feature the athlete as a dreamer, a driven person, almost a religious figure. So it's so refreshing to see a movie that features an athlete as a vain, shallow person. ...
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Instant Replay: Downhill Racer - Abbotsford News, Guide to Berner Oberland (Interlaken)
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It should be obvious that the maximum and average speed in downhill skiing strongly depends on the course racer runs on. On a typical FIS-approved,
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Last month, they reissued the Michael Ritchie film Downhill Racer, which stars Robert Redford, Gene Hackman and Dabney Coleman among others, and this week's "Shelf Life" is determined to discover whether it needs to be seen by ...
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There are few good sports films that aren't riddled with clichés and there are even fewer good films about skiing. Downhill Racer (1969) is one of those rare.
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This is not to say that Downhill Racer is not mediocre. It simply has its fingers in too many pots and more style than substance. Part character study, part sports film, and part romance, the film often sets aside one aspect to devote ...
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The template is already set in Downhill Racer, Ritchie's 1969 debut about a frigidly avid skier, yet the film's real auteur may be Robert Redford. As ambitious athlete and dedicated asshole David Chappellet, the actor (who personally ...
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And in that group I'd add Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer, which is now out in a sparkling new Criterion DVD. Featuring some of the most innovative sports photography for its day and remarkable performances from Gene Hackman and Robert ...
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2 Responses to “Downhill Racer | Review”. Jennifer Perkins Says: November 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am. After reading this I'm glad you watched it after I went to bed, tough seeing Dabney with a full head of hair might have been fun. ...
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downhill racer. 'I just hope you don't end up asking yourself a question some folks ask me: 'What's he do it for?' ' 'Well, I'll be famous. I'll be a champion.' 'The world's full of 'em.' More here. Stills: here and here. ...
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