Dust To Glory DVD

The Dust To Glory DVD goes on sale August 23rd. It features Nomad 'BAJA XPLORER' in a scene with Coco and lots of great aireal cinematography of the peninsula during the Baja 1000 of 2003.

Here's a good review if you're thinking about purchasing this fine addition to any Baja-addicts collection:
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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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------When I took my wife to see this movie, I was excited to see what looked like an exciting movie about motorcycles racing through Baja. She was excited about an evening together, and thought she'd suffer through the movie for the sake of the relationship.

Turns out, she enjoyed it as much as me! This isn't just a movie about gearheads driving through the desert, it's the story of the hundreds of people and families involved in the race, how it affects them, the challenges they face, and overcoming obstacles. You'll laugh with the racers as they joke around, hide sniffles as Malcom works with the orphans, share frustration with The Weatherman, and white-knuckle whatever's handy as the trucks and bikes race through crowds of people or along the cliffs, and get entirely caught up in the intensity of the race action across the beautifully dangerous Baja landscape.

This movie documents the triumph of the human spirit in the harshest of conditions. Definitely worth seeing, many times.
- Michael T. Saldivar (Castro Valley, CA USA)

More Dust To Glory pics...

Released in US April 1, 2005 (Limited)

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend: $15,757
(2 theaters, $7,878 average)
% of Total Gross: 2.5%

Widest Release: 80 theaters

Close Date: June 23, 2005

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MPAA Rating PG for racing action and peril, and for some language.
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Domestic Total Gross: $640,013
Distributor: IFC
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Running Time: 1 hrs. 37 min.
Production Budget: N/A
MPAA Rating: PG
Est. Marketing Costs: N/A
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[Legend]
Date Rank Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count/Change Average Gross-to-Date Week #

Apr 1?3 69 $15,757 - 2 - $7,878 $15,757 1

Apr 8?10 34 $106,000 +573% 32 +30 $3,312 $128,646 2

Apr 15?17 30 $117,963 +11.3% 50 +18 $2,359 $285,937 3

Apr 22?24 34 $118,640 +0.6% 80 +30 $1,483 $445,054 4

Apr 29?May 1 46 $56,554 -52.3% 60 -20 $942 $542,811 5

May 6?8 49 $29,160 -48.4% 39 -21 $747 $600,470 6

May 13?15 68 $12,360 -57.6% 25 -14 $494 $623,264 7

May 20?22 97 $3,337 -73.0% 13 -12 $256 $630,521 8

May 27?29 102 $1,019 -69.5% 5 -8 $203 $634,222 9

May 27?30 114 $1,411 -57.7% 5 -8 $282 $634,614 9

Jun 3?5 97 $1,857 +82.2% 11 +6 $168 $636,965 10

Jun 10?12 126 $596 -67.9% 2 -9 $298 $639,361 11

Jun 17?19 134 $219 -63.3% 2 - $109 $639,990 12

[Edited on 8-11-2005 by Ken Cooke]

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Thanks Ken & Doug...just ordered a couple!

MEX....are you bringing one down for Richard's Movie Nite!!!!!

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it is on its way I ordered it this morning cant wait to see that video.