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Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.

Manhattan as a prison and Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken; Carpenter's dystopia of 1997.

No words, Philip Glass and time-lapse cities; life out of balance.

Reggio and Glass leave the industrial world for Brazil, Nepal and India; it opens on the Serra Pelada gold mine.

Life as war, assembled almost entirely from digitally processed stock footage, with Yo-Yo Ma on cello over the Glass score.

Three hours of penny-stock excess, played as farce.

Two South Africans hunt for Rodriguez, a Detroit singer they think is dead.

Fred Rogers and the radical kindness of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.