There have been a number
of documentaries related to the events of 9/11 … some good, some bad … even the
bad ones tend to be chilling.
On Sept.
2 (clearly timed for this year’s anniversary of the event), Virgil Films &
Entertainment will deliver to DVD documentary filmmaker’s Danielle Gardner’s Out
of the Clear Blue Sky, a one-of-a-kind story about the events of that
day (and the aftermath) that is like none other.
The bond and equity trading
firm of Cantor Fitzgerald (founded just after World War II) occupied floors 101
through 105 of One World Trade Center.
658 employees were just beginning their workday when American Airlines
Flight 11 plowed into the floors just below them. Trapped, they all died … the company was
devastated in a heartbeat.
Gardner’s film not only
looks at the events of that morning through the eyes of Howard Lutnick, the
C.E.O. of the company — who only escaped the fate of his employees by taking his
young son to his first day of school — but also details the survival and
eventual resurrection of the company.
In other release news
this week from Virgil Films & Entertainment, Sept. 9 will be the DVD and
Blu-ray debut date for documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger’s Korengal,
a follow-up (or expansion of) to his
award-winning Restrepo.
The ARR is 102 days and a
brief showcase run has generated ticket sales of $14,630.
Using footage filmed by photojournalist
Tim Hetherington during 2007 and 2008 (Hetherington was killed while on
assignment in Libya in 2011), Junger shifts the focus of Restrepo from the battles
and life on the line to the experiences and thought of the frontline soldiers
in this remote area of Afghanistan.
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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