Asked his reaction upon receiving the Emmy news, Nick Rosen, co-director with Peter Mortimer, tells us: "Hot damn! We were delighted. Always an honor to get a Sports Emmy nom and fun to hobnob at ...

Directors Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen follow the climbing exploits of Marc-André Leclerc in a jaw-dropping documentary sure to draw comparisons to 'Free Solo.' By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television ...

Marc-André Leclerc is one of the most extraordinary athletes that you’ve likely never heard of. A 23-year-old mountain climber that prefers to ascend without rope or any other equipment (aka “free ...

Early in The Alpinist, the new movie by Sender Films, climber Marc-André Leclerc is captured free soloing the Stanley Headwall, a 500-foot feature in Canada’s Kootenay National Park heralded as the ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The Alpinist is taking cinemagoers to new heights. The new documentary will bring viewers to some of the highest points the globe has to offer, following a young and free ...

The Alpinist is the best climbing film I’ve ever seen, and watching it is as close to experiencing high-level alpine climbing as anyone will ever get without hearing the whine of rockfall on a big ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The shadow of Free Solo, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's dizzying climbing documentary from 2018, inevitably hangs over this latest contribution to a burgeoning sub-genre. As was the case ...

There is a tone shift midway through “The Alpinist,” subtle and unmistakable. Fellow mountain climbers have been singing the praises of Marc-André Leclerc throughout Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen’s ...

This documentary tries to shed light on the attitude of a Canadian rock climber it describes as “elusive.” By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

Upon hearing of the under-the-radar climber, veteran filmmaker Pete Mortimer (The Dawn Wall) sets out to try to connect with him. He finds Marc living in a tent in the woods with his girlfriend, ...

Some people are driven to climb mountains, simply because they are there, as Sir Edmund Hilary famously said. There is a fascination with mountains and the few who actually scale them, people who ...