{"id":2143,"date":"2008-07-28T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2010-11-29T05:16:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:16:30","slug":"interview-philippe-petit-on-man-on-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/07\/28\/interview-philippe-petit-on-man-on-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Philippe Petit on Man on Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/man-on-wire-wtc-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2183\" title=\"Philippe Petit on his wire walk between the Twin Towers in August 1974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/man-on-wire-wtc-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On August 7th 1974\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0677597\/\">Philippe Petit<\/a> gave an incredible high-wire performance by walking between between the Twin Towers of New York&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"World Trade Center\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Trade_Center\">World Trade Center<\/a> eight times in one hour.<\/p>\n<p>It is the subject of a new documentary called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1155592\/\"><strong>Man on Wire<\/strong><\/a> from director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1016428\/\">James Marsh<\/a> (who made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0210389\/\">Wisconsin Death Trip<\/a>) and I recently spoke to Philippe about his historic wire walk and the film.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Philippe_Petit_on_Man_on_Wire.mp3]\n<p>Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer for the film here:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YW1b3G2MN3Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YW1b3G2MN3Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Man on Wire<\/strong> is out at selected UK cinemas this Friday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Philippe_Petit_on_Man_on_Wire.mp3\">Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconmovies.co.uk\/manonwire\/\">Official UK site<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1155592\/\">IMDb entry<\/a> for Man on Wire<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/manonwire\">Reviews of Man on Wire<\/a> at Metacritic<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/21\/garden\/21petit.html?_r=1&amp;oref=login\">NY Times article on Philippe from 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[All images \u00a9 2008 Jean-Louis Blondeau \/ Polaris Images &amp; Magnolia Pictures \/ Icon Film Distribution]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Philippe Petit about the documentary Man on Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19],"tags":[138,374,375],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}