NYFF Opens with Thrilling 'The Walk' in Spectacular IMAX 3D

The lure for Bob Zemeckis to buy the rights ten years ago to Philippe Petit's 2002 memoir "To Reach the Clouds: My Highwire Walk Between the Twin Towers" was achieving that key sequence on the big screen, with all the vertiginous bells and whistles that he could command. He mixed and matched every VFX trick he's learned to date, Zemeckis said at the NYFF press conference. While he appreciated the re-enacted thrills of James Marsh's 2008 Oscar-winning documentary "Man on Wire," "there is no moving picture film of the walk." You can count on the Oscar-winning director of "Forrest Gump," who was also nominated for...

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