Skiing Magazine: Ahh, the Classics (March/April)
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006
A collection of vintage ski flicks takes you back to the good ol' days Remember when the rippin'est skiers wore fire-engine-red Nordic sweaters and oversized I SKI sunglasses - with no sense of irony? Relive those days - and other innocent ski e ...
Skiing Magazine
Film: Ahh, the Classics
A collection of vintage ski flicks takes you back to the good ol' days
Remember when the rippin'est skiers wore fire-engine-red Nordic sweaters and oversized I SKI sunglasses - with no sense of irony? Relive those days - and other innocent ski eras - with the Classic Ski Films Collection from Topics Entertainment. The $50 box set features nine films on eight DVDs, made long before the term "ski-porn" entered the lexicon. There's John Jay's 1960 Olympic Holiday, about the Winter Games at Squaw Valley, California; Skifully Yours, Otto Lang's 1939 look at the Sun Valley, Idaho, ski scene; and Dick Barrymore's 1971 The Performers, which documents debauchery as practiced by the K2 ski team. Highlights include Barrymore's '67 epic The Last of the Ski Bums, which follows three ordinary Americans through Europe as they schralp the Alps, win big in the casinos of Monte Carlo, and ingest hearty amounts of soft cheese and vino. As a one-piece-wearing character says, "Wine, women and skiing - what could be better?" Maybe the sport hasn't changed so much after all. (topics-ent.com)
By Scott Gornall
