S-now Tomorrow?
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- Published on Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:23
- Written by Matt Robinson
Warren Miller brings his latest storm to Boston
For over 50 years and 350 films, Warren Miller has been bringing the latest and greatest of the leisure and extreme sports worlds to the rest of the world. This month, his 62nd ski film, “Like There’s No Tomorrow” will come to the Boston area with stops in Somerville (November 9 and 10), Boston (November 11 and 12), Beverly (November 13), and Providence (November 16 and 17) as it schusses across the country on a 240-city tour.
Narrated by Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny Moseley, “No Tomorrow” follows a new crew of skiers and snowboarders five continents of on-location madness that takes Miller and his tireless team from the chilly slopes of Chili to the sky-scraping peaks of India.
Though Miller himself is not as hands on as he once was, Director Max Bervy has been making athletic documentaries for over 10 years and has the Miller thing pretty well down. When asked how he got started with Mr. Miller, Bervy responds, “My first job at the company was as the sponsorship director putting programs together with ski resorts, retailers and resorts.”
Quickly becoming involved with the production side of the Miller gang, Bervy also quickly came to the realization that, as he says, “You can teach a skier to be a film maker, but you can’t teach a film maker to be a skier.” Fortunately, he had experience in both realms and understood what his boss. His stars and his audiences wanted.
Though he had some experience in the genre, Bervy says there would be no “action film” without Mr. Miller. “Warren…created the action sports film genre as we know it today,” he suggests. Since that first film in 1949, Miller and his minions have continued to “raise the bar” of what the athlete and the filmmaker can do. Of the athletes he gets to work with, Bervy says, “these are the people who live their lives to the fullest and that is where this [film’s] theme was born from…. [They ski] like there’s no tomorrow.”
When asked what this latest film is about, Bervy responds. “It’s about skiing and living in the present and finding a way to distinguish yourself in whatever it is you do and using it to take you on the ride through life….As much as any team we’ve ever assembled, these athletes dream big, dare to fail and never think twice once the drop in on their run. The athletes embody this sentiment and live life as an example for us all.”
Though the people who watch the films may never actually be able to do what those in them can, all guests at these screenings will receive a free lift ticket to Sugarbush Resort and a discount at Eastern Mountain Sports, so when winter really comes, they will be ready! In the meantime, a Warren Miller film is about as close to the next best thing as you can get- So wax up and go!
