Dust to Glory (Ws Sub Ac3 Dol)

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   本作『Dust to Glory』は、ワイルドなレーシング・ドキュメンタリー。見ているうちに、ノドの奥がチクチク、パサパサしてきても不思議ではない。ブロックタイヤの巻き上げる砂や泥の感触が生々しく伝わってくる作品なのだ。何台ものマシンが、バハ半島の端から端へと突き進んでいく。デイナ・ブラウン監督は、さまざまな形式のカメラ90台を駆使して、弱肉強食のレースが巻き起こす危機また危機をとらえている。
   1967年、カリフォルニアのスリル大好き人間数名が、開拓心旺盛なカリフォルニア魂を発揮して、広大な土地で手づくりのレーシング・カーを爆走させた。ほんの数時間の出来事だった。それ以来、この「バハ1000」はパーティー気分にあふれた催しとなっている。「インディ500」よりも「バーニングマン」に近いノリなのだ。人呼んで“世界最長のノンストップ・レース”。参加者は、メキシコ砂漠の真っ只中で、ティファナからラ・パスまでの1000マイル（約160万キロ）をポイント・ツー・ポイントで競う（つまり、バハ半島をほぼ縦断することになる）。
   デイナ・ブラウン監督は、1966年の映画『エンドレス・サマー』で知られるブルース・ブラウン監督の息子。『エンドレス・サマー』はサーフィン・ブームの火付け役となった作品であり、サーファーの実存的ライフスタイルに捧げられた賛歌として今なお称賛されている。一方、この『Dust to Glory』は決して深みのある作品ではなく、ウォーレン・ミラー監督ばりのスリルを売り物にした演出が目に付く（ミラー監督は毎年のように過激なスキー映画を量産している人物）。カメラはヘリコプターから被写体に迫り、泥の中を疾走し、マシンが猛スピードで駆け抜けるトラックの中に突入する。そんな大興奮の映像にもかかわらず、本作が最終的に重視するのは、このレースの高次の意義について人々がどう考えているかという点だ。あるベテランの完走者はこんな風に説明する――「人生のピンチ10,000回ぶんを1日で体験するようなものだ。普通の生活がスローモーションみたいに感じられるよ」。（Ted Fry, Amazon.com）

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Don't be surprised if you feel a dry, tickling sensation in the back of your throat after watching the slam-bang racing documentary Dust to Glory. It's probably from the lingering sand and silt spewed from the knobby wheels of an array of machines that skitter from one end of the Baja Peninsula to the other. Using 90 cameras in a variety of formats, director Dana Brown captures the giddy danger of the race with truly visceral force. In 1967, a few California thrill-seekers had the Eureka spirit to take their homemade race cars for some whooping-up in the wide-open land just a few hours away. Since then, the Baja 1000 has turned into a party-fueled happening that's more akin to Burning Man than the Indy 500. It's billed as the world's longest nonstop race, running point-to-point for 1,000 miles through the Mexican desert from Tijuana to La Paz--pretty much the entire length of Baja.
Dana Brown is the son of Bruce Brown, whose 1966 film The Endless Summer sparked a surfing craze, and still holds up as an incomparable ode to the existential surfing lifestyle. Dust to Glory is by no means so profound and uses more of a Warren Miller thrill-marketing style (he of the annual throwaway extreme-skiing films). Cameras swoop down from helicopters, careen through silt, and are put into tracks over which vehicles pass at extreme speeds. In spite of the adrenaline rush, Dust to Glory is ultimately more about what people think about the higher implications of the competition.

From the creators of Step Into Liquid comes this absolutely exhilarating film about the most notorious and dangerous race in the world: the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000. Showcasing Mario Andretti, Robby Gordon, Johnny Campbell and J.N. Roberts, and packed with awesome helicopter footage, in-your-face POV shots and stories of raw courage, Dust to Glory follows a wild assortment of motorcycles, dune buggies, ATV quads and tricked-out trucks in a 32-hour dash across 1,000 miles of unforgiving terrain and delivers such pulse-pounding thrills that you feel like you've been there .

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Don't be surprised if you feel a dry, tickling sensation in the back of your throat after watching the slam-bang racing documentary Dust to Glory. It's probably from the lingering sand and silt spewed from the knobby wheels of an array of machines that skitter from one end of the Baja Peninsula to the other. Using 90 cameras in a variety of formats, director Dana Brown captures the giddy danger of the race with truly visceral force. In 1967, a few California thrill-seekers had the Eureka spirit to take their homemade race cars for some whooping-up in the wide-open land just a few hours away. Since then, the Baja 1000 has turned into a party-fueled happening that's more akin to Burning Man than the Indy 500. It's billed as the world's longest nonstop race, running point-to-point for 1,000 miles through the Mexican desert from Tijuana to La Paz--pretty much the entire length of Baja.

Dana Brown is the son of Bruce Brown, whose 1966 film The Endless Summer sparked a surfing craze, and still holds up as an incomparable ode to the existential surfing lifestyle. Dust to Glory is by no means so profound and uses more of a Warren Miller thrill-marketing style (he of the annual throwaway extreme-skiing films). Cameras swoop down from helicopters, careen through silt, and are put into tracks over which vehicles pass at extreme speeds. In spite of the adrenaline rush, Dust to Glory is ultimately more about what people think about the higher implications of the competition. One veteran finisher describes it this way: "It's like having all 10,000 close calls of your life in one day. It makes regular life feel like slow-motion." --Ted Fry