The Same River Twice

Director: Robb Moss
Studio: New Video Group
Product Type: DVD

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An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as "piercingly poignant" (The New York Times) and "a [four-star] masterpiece! Powerful, compelling and graceful!" (Chicago Reader). In 1978, award-winning filmmaker Robb Moss and a close-knit group of free-spirited friends and lovers took a month-long trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon; a breathtaking, white-water rafting adventure down the Colorado River. Cutting between footage of their youthful--often naked--live-in-the-moment existences and the complex realities of their adulthood today, the film travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis and the struggle to find one's place in the world. From running rapids to running for mayor, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is an intimate depiction of those baby-boomers who took the Sixties seriously, and then grew up. DVD Features: Audio Commentary with Filmmaker Robb Moss; Filmmaker Interview; Filmmaker Q&A; Theatrical Trailer; Filmmaker and Crew Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

The Same River Twice
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A Time Machine for 40-Something "Waterdogs".....

Naked Narcissists

Big Chill on the River

really good documentary

The Same River Twice
Director: Robb Moss
Manufacturer: New Video Group
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An instant hit at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is a rich and warmly insightful mosaic of change, choices and communal living, highly acclaimed as "piercingly poignant" (The New York Times) and "a [four-star] masterpiece! Powerful, compelling and graceful!" (Chicago Reader). In 1978, award-winning filmmaker Robb Moss and a close-knit group of free-spirited friends and lovers took a month-long trip through the depths of the Grand Canyon; a breathtaking, white-water rafting adventure down the Colorado River. Cutting between footage of their youthful--often naked--live-in-the-moment existences and the complex realities of their adulthood today, the film travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis and the struggle to find one's place in the world. From running rapids to running for mayor, THE SAME RIVER TWICE is an intimate depiction of those baby-boomers who took the Sixties seriously, and then grew up. DVD Features: Audio Commentary with Filmmaker Robb Moss; Filmmaker Interview; Filmmaker Q&A; Theatrical Trailer; Filmmaker and Crew Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

Customer Reviews:

A Time Machine for 40-Something "Waterdogs"............2007-01-07

If you've ever spent any time on a river -- without a motor -- and were a young adult in the 70's...this film is like somebody opening a window in a stuffy room. The sights, sounds, and abundant nudity will wash over you like a icy jade wave....it's a joy to see brother & sisters of the "Royal Order of the Rocket Box" who went there too, fellow veterans of multi-day raft trips with all the attendant psuedo-philosophizing, coitus, group & individual angst, transactional dynamics and joyful dysfunction.

Juxtaposing the archival footage with the "where are they today?" clips was brilliant filmmaking...kind of like Michael Apted's 48-up, but with better scenery and more dramatic hydraulics!

If you've ever stuffed all your worldly possessions in a drybag, hoisted a 200 quart cooler and suffered 3rd degree Teva tan.....you'll love it!

Naked Narcissists.......2006-08-30

Just about what I had expected, a bunch of self-indulgent fools, playing Adam & Eve, then turning gray having learned nothing. I hoped perhaps one of them might just wise up, break with the hippie orthodoxy, maybe join the Marine Corps, open a gun shop in Kingman, Arizona. Anything! But no. They all grew up to be meddling busy-bodies, imposing their Utopian "think globally/ act locally" claptrap as small town mayors and such. It's significant that the guy they all viewed as their guru, is the most vapid and apparently brain-damaged of the bunch.

Perhaps the most striking thing about the movie is how uniformly unlikable these people were, and are. It is a fitting tribute to the 'Woodstock generation'.

Big Chill on the River.......2006-03-29

This is a good documentary of a group of river guides that contrasts footage of the unavailable movie "River Dogs" with their current lives. Some moved on, some stayed where they were and all split up. It would have been more valuable if the original documentary, River Dogs, had also been included because it would have served as a better bridge to the past (it would have also been nice to see more of the Grand Canyon Trip, a truely awe inspiring place). Having said that Robb Moss does a solid job putting everything together, and avoids any pendantic conclusions, but lets the work speak for itself. Definitely worth viewing, it's not just a movie, it's real life.

really good documentary.......2005-07-17

This is a really good documentary about a group of raft guides that spent this one summer back in the 70's rafting naked through the Grand Canyon. The same guy that filmed that trip revisits with some of those people within the last few years and shows what they are doing now. This is definetely worth watching. My wife watched it three times in two days.

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Same River Twice
Starring: Robert Curtis-Brown , John Putch , Shea Farrell , Dwier Brown , and Scott Christopher
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Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
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