DETAILS:
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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