Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: EDGE63D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 820680106393
- Street Date: 02/23/10
- PreBook Date: 01/19/10
- Label: Screen Edge »
- Genre: Cult
- Run Time: 65 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2009
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
Cast & Crew
- Director: MIKE WALLINGTON
- Producer: JOHN BENTHAM
- Producers: JOHN BENTHAM
Product Assets
Outsiders - Champions: The Films Of Mike Wallington
Three intriguing late 70s films on burgeoning social phenomenons: competitive eating, video games and martial arts.
- List Price: $14.95
- Your Price: $14.95
- In Stock: 52
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On the last night bus home before TV made all our lives duller, Mike Wallington made three cinema shorts in the late 70s which are still talked about today but very seldom seen. The most recent internet chat about his work has been a discussion of just what drugs he was using while making the »»?lms... "Champions" (1978) follows Peter Dowdeswell, the legendary eater/drinker, and shows us some of his feats which »»?ll the Gluttony pages of the Guinness Book of Records. "Ice Break" (1979) follows Frank Perry, a masterful martial artist who achieves mind-over-matter by some of the hardest tameshiwari (or breaking techniques) ever captured on »»?lm. "Arcade Attack"(1980) starts off as an ordinary documentary on the pros and cons of video games versus pinball. Then it morphs into an extraordinary mythic battle between back-glass superheroes and anything the virtual world can throw at them. Animation by Phil Austin and Derek Hayes.
Press Quotes
You just have to see it to believe it. I was totally flabbergasted
—IMDB.com RE: 'Arcade Attack'
To see a �lm where a guy carries a brick throughout is to see one of the great mysteries of modern cinema
—Time Out RE: 'Champions'
One of the wildest, wackiest animation moments from the 80s
—Japanese fan site RE: 'Arcade Attack'
