Warren Miller inspired a lot of skiers. Every time I went to one of the movies while I was growing up, I learned to have a better time on the slopes. In my mind, the thing that made the movies so compelling wasn't pushing the edges of skiing in a badass way, it was pushing the edges of skiing in a fun/silly way. For example: https://youtu.be/zD5RhNBmc_U My brother and I used to have spinning competitions down hills.…
His films always had silly stuff, but my favorite pieces of his films were the 'slice of life' looks into various people's lives surrounding the ski industry, for example following ski patrol's day-to-day, or even going to foreign countries to document ski culture in, say, Almaty, Kazakstan. I particularly loved this scene from Snowriders II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq7Meb_pmMM Important to recall that this w…
Re: Warren Miller, Ski Bum Turned Filmmaker, Dies at 93
#31I saw a film at the Banff Mountain Film Festival last year that was about skiing in Iran. It was fascinating to see how people get out of town and let their hair down, so to speak.