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Year: 2008
Director: Gonzalo Arijon
Plot: The events that followed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1974 are, by now, notorious. The survivors, members of a rugby team left to fend for themselves in the Andes, ultimately resorted to cannibalism for the sake of survival, devouring the flesh of their dead companions. As a result, 16 men (of the initial 45) managed to stay alive on a frozen glacier for an incredible ten weeks. The story prompted a bestselling nonfiction tome by Piers Paul Read, a 1993 feature dramatization directed by Spielberg collaborator Frank Marshall, and this documentary, which recounts the harrowing story via firsthand accounts with those involved. Director Gonzalo Arijon accompanies survivors and their children back to the location, cameras-in-tow, and has the men relay the details of the story; he intercuts this footage with clips of the press conference that greeted the men on their return, and recently-recovered archival photographs. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:34:29 GMTStranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains2008Gonzalo ArijonThe events that followed the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1974 are, by now, notorious. The survivors, members of a rugby team left to fend for themselves in the Andes, ultimately resorted to cannibalism for the sake of survival, devouring the flesh of their dead companions. As a result, 16 men (of the initial 45) managed to stay alive on a frozen glacier for an incredible ten weeks. The story prompted a bestselling nonfiction tome by Piers Paul Read, a 1993 feature dramatization directed by Spielberg collaborator <a href="http://www.spout.com/players/P___101400/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Frank Marshall</a>, and this documentary, which recounts the harrowing story via firsthand accounts with those involved. Director Gonzalo Arijon accompanies survivors and their children back to the location, cameras-in-tow, and has the men relay the details of the story; he intercuts this footage with clips of the press conference that greeted the men on their return, and recently-recovered archival photographs. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide3Slightly Tagged (1-5)654http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s358673.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Stranded_I_ve_Come_From_a_Plane_That_Crashed_on_the_Mountains/358673/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/cinemarian/archive/2009/4/6/41461.aspx Post By: CinemaRian
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Body: Note: It’s impossible to discuss the movie without giving away spoilers. Pretty much everyone going into this probably knows what happened, but if you don’t you’ve been warned. I walked into Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains wondering if I could make it through the picture without becoming disgusted, and I found that the what everyone remembers about the story- cannibalism-is not the main focus. It’s more about in an insane situation, and it’s own way is kind of life affirming. The story has been previously told in Frank Marshall’s 1993 fiction film Alive (which I have not seen), and well known in the annals of airline disasters. In 1972, a plane flying from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the mountains of Argentina. The passengers consisted almost entirely of members of a Uruguayan college rugby team, their friends, girlfriends and family. Seventeen of the forty-five people on board died within twenty four hours of the crash. The remaining twenty-eight would have to find some way to survive in the cold with very little food for seventy two days. The governments of Uruguay, Chile and Argentina tried a rescue but the bad weather meant that the plane could only be visible for one hour a day, and it was white against white snow, and no one knew where the plane was when it went down, and eventually the passengers realized that they would have to in some way be in the instruments of their own rescue. Director Gonzolo Arijon avoids what could have very easily become an Oprah – type inspiration story. Instead, he focuses on the sociological aspects of what happened- how a new world with new rules was formed immediately after the crash. Death was always close at hand, the survivors deal with it as best they can. Some lose their fear of death or the desire to live, or both, others fight until they end so they can return. Nearly all of them become very spiritual, and this how the film becomes a positive statement. It is not so much their will to live or their endurance that is moving (though it is to a degree) then it is there the attitude towards the event afterwards. Many of the survivors return to the crash site and there are tears but one man says “I’m glad I came here.” This event has haunted these men for thirty years, but it has not broken them. They bring their children with them, and they celebrate and thank the dead. One says that he feels the dead “Gave their muscles so we might live” and that’s how the men seem to feel. Many equate what they did to a kind of Holy Communion, where the dead gave their body for the life of others. The movie ends with footage of the men as they play soccer game. They all still live in the same small town. They did what they needed to do to live, and in watching this film, I learned that living is to a degree in end unto itself. Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains(2008)
]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:28:43 GMTCinemaRianCinemaRian Blog4/6/2009 12:28:43 AMNote: It&rsquo;s impossible to discuss the movie without giving away spoilers. Pretty much everyone going into this probably knows what happened, but if you don&rsquo;t you&rsquo;ve been warned. I walked into Stranded: I&rsquo;ve Come From a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains wondering if I could make it through the picture without becoming disgusted, and I found that the what everyone remembers about the story- cannibalism-is not the main focus. It&rsquo;s more about in an insane situation, and it&rsquo;s own way is kind of life affirming. The story has been previously told in Frank Marshall&rsquo;s 1993 fiction film Alive (which I have not seen), and well known in the annals of airline disasters. In 1972, a plane flying from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the mountains of Argentina. The passengers consisted almost entirely of members of a Uruguayan college rugby team, their friends, girlfriends and family. Seventeen of the forty-five people on board died within twenty four hours of the crash. The remaining twenty-eight would have to find some way to survive in the cold with very little food for seventy two days. The governments of Uruguay, Chile and Argentina tried a rescue but the bad weather meant that the plane could only be visible for one hour a day, and it was white against white snow, and no one knew where the plane was when it went down, and eventually the passengers realized that they would have to in some way be in the instruments of their own rescue. Director Gonzolo Arijon avoids what could have very easily become an Oprah &ndash; type inspiration story. Instead, he focuses on the sociological aspects of what happened- how a new world with new rules was formed immediately after the crash. Death was always close at hand, the survivors deal with it as best they can. Some lose their fear of death or the desire to live, or both, others fight until they end so they can return. Nearly all of them become very spiritual, and this how the film becomes a positive statement. It is not so much their will to live or their endurance that is moving (though it is to a degree) then it is there the attitude towards the event afterwards. Many of the survivors return to the crash site and there are tears but one man says &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad I came here.&rdquo; This event has haunted these men for thirty years, but it has not broken them. They bring their children with them, and they celebrate and thank the dead. One says that he feels the dead &ldquo;Gave their muscles so we might live&rdquo; and that&rsquo;s how the men seem to feel. Many equate what they did to a kind of Holy Communion, where the dead gave their body for the life of others. The movie ends with footage of the men as they play soccer game. They all still live in the same small town. They did what they needed to do to live, and in watching this film, I learned that living is to a degree in end unto itself. Stranded: I've Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains(2008) http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/10/28/36735.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 10/28/2008 4:02:09 PM
Body: The International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their annual awards today. The five features to get the nod are Kassim the Dream, Stranded, Man on Wire, Young @ Heart, and Waltz With Bashir. It’s an interesting batch of nominees, for sure. For one thing, it excludes some the year’s most seen American documentaries. Though Young @ Heart and Man on Wire made multiple millions and are thus considered nonfiction hits, both of the religion twins, Religulous and Expelled (currently the #2 and #3 highest grossing nonfiction films of the year, respectively, behind U23D) were excluded from the honors. Also interesting is the nod for the mostly animated Waltz with Bashir, which Sony chose to keep in the New York Film Festival rather than pull for a qualifying run. IDA also announced today that in addition to the career award that they’d previously planned to give to Werner Herzog, the December 5 ceremony will also honor Rob Epstein with the Pioneer Award, and Stefan Forbes, director of my favorite political doc of the year thus far, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, will get the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award. indieWIRE has the full list of honorees. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:02:09 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog10/28/2008 4:02:09 PMThe International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their annual awards today. The five features to get the nod are Kassim the Dream, Stranded, Man on Wire, Young @ Heart, and Waltz With Bashir. It’s an interesting batch of nominees, for sure. For one thing, it excludes some the year’s most seen American documentaries. Though Young @ Heart and Man on Wire made multiple millions and are thus considered nonfiction hits, both of the religion twins, Religulous and Expelled (currently the #2 and #3 highest grossing nonfiction films of the year, respectively, behind U23D) were excluded from the honors. Also interesting is the nod for the mostly animated Waltz with Bashir, which Sony chose to keep in the New York Film Festival rather than pull for a qualifying run. IDA also announced today that in addition to the career award that they’d previously planned to give to Werner Herzog, the December 5 ceremony will also honor Rob Epstein with the Pioneer Award, and Stefan Forbes, director of my favorite political doc of the year thus far, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, will get the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award. indieWIRE has the full list of honorees. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/28/36734.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 10/28/2008 4:01:58 PM
Body: The International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their annual awards today. The five features to get the nod are Kassim the Dream, Stranded, Man on Wire, Young @ Heart, and Waltz With Bashir. It’s an interesting batch of nominees, for sure. For one thing, it excludes some the year’s most seen American documentaries. Though Young @ Heart and Man on Wire made multiple millions and are thus considered nonfiction hits, both of the religion twins, Religulous and Expelled (currently the #2 and #3 highest grossing nonfiction films of the year, respectively, behind U23D) were excluded from the honors. Also interesting is the nod for the mostly animated Waltz with Bashir, which Sony chose to keep in the New York Film Festival rather than pull for a qualifying run. IDA also announced today that in addition to the career award that they’d previously planned to give to Werner Herzog, the December 5 ceremony will also honor Rob Epstein with the Pioneer Award, and Stefan Forbes, director of my favorite political doc of the year thus far, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, will get the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award. indieWIRE has the full list of honorees. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:01:58 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/28/2008 4:01:58 PMThe International Documentary Association announced their nominees for their annual awards today. The five features to get the nod are Kassim the Dream, Stranded, Man on Wire, Young @ Heart, and Waltz With Bashir. It’s an interesting batch of nominees, for sure. For one thing, it excludes some the year’s most seen American documentaries. Though Young @ Heart and Man on Wire made multiple millions and are thus considered nonfiction hits, both of the religion twins, Religulous and Expelled (currently the #2 and #3 highest grossing nonfiction films of the year, respectively, behind U23D) were excluded from the honors. Also interesting is the nod for the mostly animated Waltz with Bashir, which Sony chose to keep in the New York Film Festival rather than pull for a qualifying run. IDA also announced today that in addition to the career award that they’d previously planned to give to Werner Herzog, the December 5 ceremony will also honor Rob Epstein with the Pioneer Award, and Stefan Forbes, director of my favorite political doc of the year thus far, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, will get the Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award. indieWIRE has the full list of honorees. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/1/20/24112.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 1/20/2008 3:01:14 PM
Body: Note: I’ve seen four notable documentaries over the past two days, all of which are competing here for jury prizes: The Order of Myths, The Recruit, Bigger Stronger Faster, and Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains. In the interest of time and brevity, I’m going to file short posts on each today, but I may revisit a least one or two of these after more thought and possibly additional viewings. ?? Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Dubbed by festival shorthand “the cannibal plane crash doc,” it’s a 113-minute oral history of the infamous crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was previously dramatized in the 1993 Ethan Hawke film, Alive. The surviving survivors give incredibly articulate, revealing, and comprehensive testimony on their ten weeks on that mountain, some (all?) from the site of the crash, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a film about hearing (and, more affectingly, watching) people explain what it felt like to save their own lives by eating their friends. Filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon understands this maybe too well, and the film’s length??????excessive by all accounts??????could be reduced somewhat if he were to let go of some of the survivors’ verbal attempts at justification. And yet, there are breathtaking moments padded around the somewhat redundant justifications, often when the camera holds on a subject’s face after a recollection. They stare straight ahead, frozen, dazed, as if shocked at their own memories.?? There’s nothing about this story or the way it’s told that would make any viewer feel anything but sympathy for their ordeal, and certainly, this is a case where asking us to take a second to contemplate the image of someone saying “I didn’t want to do it, but I had to” has far greater impact than the words themselves. Those shots, of an eye twitching almost imperceptibly while a survivor recovers from an admission, tell us everything we need to know. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:01:14 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog1/20/2008 3:01:14 PM Note: I’ve seen four notable documentaries over the past two days, all of which are competing here for jury prizes: The Order of Myths, The Recruit, Bigger Stronger Faster, and Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains. In the interest of time and brevity, I’m going to file short posts on each today, but I may revisit a least one or two of these after more thought and possibly additional viewings. ?? Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Dubbed by festival shorthand “the cannibal plane crash doc,” it’s a 113-minute oral history of the infamous crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was previously dramatized in the 1993 Ethan Hawke film, Alive. The surviving survivors give incredibly articulate, revealing, and comprehensive testimony on their ten weeks on that mountain, some (all?) from the site of the crash, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a film about hearing (and, more affectingly, watching) people explain what it felt like to save their own lives by eating their friends. Filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon understands this maybe too well, and the film’s length??????excessive by all accounts??????could be reduced somewhat if he were to let go of some of the survivors’ verbal attempts at justification. And yet, there are breathtaking moments padded around the somewhat redundant justifications, often when the camera holds on a subject’s face after a recollection. They stare straight ahead, frozen, dazed, as if shocked at their own memories.?? There’s nothing about this story or the way it’s told that would make any viewer feel anything but sympathy for their ordeal, and certainly, this is a case where asking us to take a second to contemplate the image of someone saying “I didn’t want to do it, but I had to” has far greater impact than the words themselves. Those shots, of an eye twitching almost imperceptibly while a survivor recovers from an admission, tell us everything we need to know. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/1/20/24111.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 1/20/2008 3:01:05 PM
Body: Note: I’ve seen four notable documentaries over the past two days, all of which are competing here for jury prizes: The Order of Myths, The Recruit, Bigger Stronger Faster, and Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains. In the interest of time and brevity, I’m going to file short posts on each today, but I may revisit a least one or two of these after more thought and possibly additional viewings. ?? Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Dubbed by festival shorthand “the cannibal plane crash doc,” it’s a 113-minute oral history of the infamous crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was previously dramatized in the 1993 Ethan Hawke film, Alive. The surviving survivors give incredibly articulate, revealing, and comprehensive testimony on their ten weeks on that mountain, some (all?) from the site of the crash, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a film about hearing (and, more affectingly, watching) people explain what it felt like to save their own lives by eating their friends. Filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon understands this maybe too well, and the film’s length??????excessive by all accounts??????could be reduced somewhat if he were to let go of some of the survivors’ verbal attempts at justification. And yet, there are breathtaking moments padded around the somewhat redundant justifications, often when the camera holds on a subject’s face after a recollection. They stare straight ahead, frozen, dazed, as if shocked at their own memories.?? There’s nothing about this story or the way it’s told that would make any viewer feel anything but sympathy for their ordeal, and certainly, this is a case where asking us to take a second to contemplate the image of someone saying “I didn’t want to do it, but I had to” has far greater impact than the words themselves. Those shots, of an eye twitching almost imperceptibly while a survivor recovers from an admission, tell us everything we need to know. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:01:05 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com1/20/2008 3:01:05 PM Note: I’ve seen four notable documentaries over the past two days, all of which are competing here for jury prizes: The Order of Myths, The Recruit, Bigger Stronger Faster, and Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains. In the interest of time and brevity, I’m going to file short posts on each today, but I may revisit a least one or two of these after more thought and possibly additional viewings. ?? Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Dubbed by festival shorthand “the cannibal plane crash doc,” it’s a 113-minute oral history of the infamous crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was previously dramatized in the 1993 Ethan Hawke film, Alive. The surviving survivors give incredibly articulate, revealing, and comprehensive testimony on their ten weeks on that mountain, some (all?) from the site of the crash, but let’s not kid ourselves: this is a film about hearing (and, more affectingly, watching) people explain what it felt like to save their own lives by eating their friends. Filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon understands this maybe too well, and the film’s length??????excessive by all accounts??????could be reduced somewhat if he were to let go of some of the survivors’ verbal attempts at justification. And yet, there are breathtaking moments padded around the somewhat redundant justifications, often when the camera holds on a subject’s face after a recollection. They stare straight ahead, frozen, dazed, as if shocked at their own memories.?? There’s nothing about this story or the way it’s told that would make any viewer feel anything but sympathy for their ordeal, and certainly, this is a case where asking us to take a second to contemplate the image of someone saying “I didn’t want to do it, but I had to” has far greater impact than the words themselves. Those shots, of an eye twitching almost imperceptibly while a survivor recovers from an admission, tell us everything we need to know. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/documentary/MemberTagFilms.aspxdocumentary
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