Ken Cooke
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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)
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Ken Cooke
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More Dust To Glory pics...
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wow, who's that blonde with the "bolt-onz"??!!
hot!!!...........
the movie seen in a theatre was tops (saw phx premier thx to BUFEO!!) , but it will rock in my dedicated home theatre on a 100" screen and DTS 6 ch.
packing 1200 watts.
Ken, any idea how they actually faired box office wise before going for the rental/sales bucks? my guess is with a reduced audience due to its
specialization it didn't break even on box office alone. But, hell of a film!
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Ken Cooke any idea how I could get a copy of that? do you know who will be selling the DVD?
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capt. mike
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Bruce, i could bring one down for you next trip.
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Ken Cooke
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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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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
Ken Cooke any idea how I could get a copy of that? do you know who will be selling the DVD? |
All of the major retailers will have it for sale here in the U.S. You could probably order it in Mexico...I would think...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
Bruce, i could bring one down for you next trip. |
please do I would love it . I have been waiting a long time to see that video. Ill bye the beer and we can watch the show.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
...do you know who will be selling the DVD? |
You can order/pre-order your copy through this site now via our
current arrangement with Amazon.com. I am not familiar with what, if any, arrangement Amazon has for deliveries in Mexico.
http://tienda.bajanomad.com/cgi-bin/tienda.cgi?item_id=B0009...
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Amazon delivers to Mexico I see many pks in the Post Office here in La Paz from Amazon.
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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cool Doug! i just ordered one!!
Bruce, do the same, have it shipped to me and i'll bring it down, ok? pm me and i'll give you the super secret address to where i hold court!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
cool Doug! i just ordered one!!
Bruce, do the same, have it shipped to me and i'll bring it down, ok? pm me and i'll give you the super secret address to where i hold court!!
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u2u me your shipping address and phone #
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
wow, who's that blonde with the "bolt-onz"??!!
hot!!!........... |
Ease off, Cap'n
That's Mouse's girlfriend.
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Mexray
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Thanks Ken & Doug...just ordered a couple!
...Amazon is quoting an August 27th ship date, and if you select their 'super saver shipping' (5-9 days) there's no freight added on - saved me about
$4 to Northern Calif!
[Edited on 8-12-2005 by Mexray]
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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MEX....are you bringing one down for Richard's Movie Nite!!!!!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bruce R Leech
| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
cool Doug! i just ordered one!!
Bruce, do the same, have it shipped to me and i'll bring it down, ok? pm me and i'll give you the super secret address to where i hold court!!
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u2u me your shipping address and phone # |
it is on its way I ordered it this morning cant wait to see that
video.
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