"The Lost Season" review and spew

[Telekóptero]

What a fantastic film. 3.5 stars of 4. Only in murphy's stuff do i see some sicko throw a huge whippy lincoln off a 40(?) at squaw or a kid taking off switch over a big table, and minutes later, he's talking (not just a 5 second blurb) about the other best shit i love about skiing besides speed and air: the friendships we come to find in it. This mang's a maggot for sure. He gets it.

A quality film. A different film. cinematography ain't the quality of Bill Heath (a ridiculously high standard, admittedly), but the length's better, the soul's the same, as seen in the stories the characters and pros tell.

the perfect amount of porn/stoke, a good dose of meaning, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Even talked with Josh after the show! [/shameless hero worship]

About promotion of the sport, of his work, and of defining tele identity. Definitely not the perspective i'd come up with, as i feel there is a collective identity out there at least here on the Front Range.

Josh believes the sport can't progress to quite the level he's looking for until the new tele identity has been defined and can be found everywhere. I believe he's probably right, but i what i don't know is how important it is to me that teleheads have a collective identity. there's racer heads who've never touched the BC, dirtbags scouring lines far from civilization, science types into all the avi awareness and "proving oneself" outside the boundaries of the area in they're created super-worst-case-scenario-land (ever seen teletips?) and curious alpiners looking for a new challenge.

He spoke of pockets of this new collective tele identity. Squaw, Boulder/Front Range, and in Burlington but thought that those big spaces in between need some attention. No harm in that, I guess. What would bring that about though.

We also talked about the difference between his vision for ski film versus what's currently being put out. I'm not going to bash the industry too much for a glut of films out these days, and to be clear, Josh didn't either, b/c hell it feels like the first ten or 15 years of snowboarding, when the market was saturated and everything was going gangbusters, awesome enthusiasm, but i will say I agreed with a lot of what he saw. In reaction, he wanted to make a film that had a wider audience than just skiers. One with which others could identify. so, "lost season" came about. and it's no classic like the genius of "Blizzard of Aah's" but it's definitely making a statement about what's important in skiing. It's almost unfair to compare those two, really, on second thought.

anyway, from what i understood, he wanted to make something bigger in meaning than the current film out there which he finds to be largely "skiing music videos". Lots of supeficial identity, the bling and steez factor, etc. Lord knows it's definitely out there at tahoe, (where Unparalleled Productions is based).

well, those are my thoughts. i dug the film. plus there's all this fantastic porn, some medium to tough lines, a couple straightlines, and great cliff lincolns, gap backflips, collins' brothers-like cliffy spinny rodeo 7's (i think), plus a telejibber winning 7th place at a rail jam in a field of 200 alpine jibbers! Impressive. He was there competing right along with CR Johnson and crew.

A good show.

So, thoughts, anyone who's seen it?

[edg]

I haven't, but it sounds impressive. I was a bit disappointed with the trailer, to be honest, but sounds like it's come out quite well. It looked more my kind of film than incognito; might have to give it a try... *Adds another film to his ski-dvds-to-buy-this-year list*

edg

[lemon boy]

couldn't go last night.

Shameless plug for a movie I'm not in:

Don't forget to go see Incognito next Wed (I think wed) at the Boulder Theatre. It is Nat/TGP's new flick and he always puts together a quality tele flick chock full of Colo talent.

Eight whole dollars.

[Telekóptero]

couldn't go last night.

Shameless plug for a movie I'm not in:

Don't forget to go see Incognito next Wed (I think wed) at the Boulder Theatre. It is Nat/TGP's new flick and he always puts together a quality tele flick chock full of Colo talent.

Eight whole dollars.

Lemon, you know there's an EMS show in denver tonight, right? time is on Josh's site, www.upproductions.com, under "tour".

[Telekóptero]

for the rest of you, some stoke below. get out there tonight and see the flick you've been waiting for! it's worth the clams!


At one point at Lost Season, I was gonna get up on stage after the show, pirate the mike for a quick sec and put that public speaking course to use, ask if anyone had change for a nickel. I balked thoughand talked to Josh instead, and that turned out well (obviously).

damn i wanna meet more maggots! and the summit to ootah this year is too early for my tastes. I want to be able to launch 'em, not tiptoe around on less than deep snowpack. geez that need to fly reminds me of last night's show. . .

you know that gut wrenching, tear jerking feeling you get when you touch your first snow of the year (last week on the high scree fields of Mt. Princeton with the possible love of my life!), or when you see your first ski porn! this film boosted my soul, my addiction, everything in my maggot body that says,


"I AM A SKIER".



I think some of you, even though many don't know me in person, know how much i love this sport. "Lost Season" brought me to higher ground. a definite 8ish out of 10.

I can't remember the exact scene but the emotion it brought me was like a combination of (what i imagine) it feels like to crank the throttle on a motocross bike and the sheer, heart-piercing joy at doing something i both believe in and love:

it's that buildingyyyyyyYYAAAAARRRRRR, MATEY!!!! aggropower feeling we got when the world first saw Nobis accelerate out of a big screaming straightline on the cover or Powder. The same turn type you see in Walls of Freedom, when (I think) Scott is asking Robb how skiing made him feel as a kid and Robb says "It made me feel. . .special". A cut to a 70's film reel of (presumably) Robb follow. He's little tyke size in a blue jacket, snowplowing in a sort of little kid tuck to screen's left (am i remembering this all right?). A cut or two later, you see him, now adult, doing a big cranker of a turn, also to screen's left, where its clear he's hauling some serious freight into it's initiation, suddenly his angulation has clearly engaged the outside ski fully, he's on the sweet spot, and he's off like a shot, riding those boards like he was a superbike on a road coarse, accelerating out of the turn!

That's what this scene near the beginning of Josh's film made me feel like. that's the YARR! i'm talking about. it came when a guy's dropping in to an area that looks like the chimney or the palisades, but less narrow and steep. I think he runs 'em pretty straight after a turn or two. . . and as he accelerated to white knuckles, i could barely look at the screen for all the release of pain and longing i felt. Actual tears came to my eyes and my throat tightened as i looked at the theater's ceiling

I felt my heart and power surge. Every physical sensation of arcin' my first ever alaska style turns at berthoud* last spring on my '99(?) zebra Chubbs came back to me. (Never been on true fats before, so addictive! gotta find a way to twintip 'em! Isn't there a thread on here about that)?

*(shout out to my Berthoud bc partner kev - hit by lightning and taking some time off. May we ride again soon, mang).

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i think many of us here must have some sort of feeling like this aggropower/confidence/coming home thing during the year. some bit of inspiration brings it. It doesn't matter whether it's your first gaper speedtuck or your first straightline. You feel like a king and that's all that matters since it's you who feels it, not others who grant it.

I highly recommend getting out and seeing that first '04/'05 flick who's arrival you've been anticipating. Bring a friend, solidify that comraderie among your bros and snowsistahs, and feel that surge of winter come back into your heart again! 04/05 flicks: http://tetongravity.com/forums/showt...highlight=ohfo