Ski movie Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/ski-movie/ One more mountain line Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:34:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg Ski movie Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/ski-movie/ 32 32 90835253 The Blizzard of Aaahh´s – How the underground rebels saved skiing in the 80´s. https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/03/the-blizzard-of-aaahhs-how-the-underground-rebels-saved-skiing-in-the-80s/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/03/the-blizzard-of-aaahhs-how-the-underground-rebels-saved-skiing-in-the-80s/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:01:06 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1654 It´s a cold winter day in 1988 and our gym teacher has decided that instead of playing outdoor ice hockey we would watch a movie instead. The class is packed with runny-nosed 15-year-old kids watching skeptically as the moustache wearing middle-aged ski coach sets up the VHS system. It takes […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/03/the-blizzard-of-aaahhs-how-the-underground-rebels-saved-skiing-in-the-80s/feed/ 0 1654 Ski bumming to the Oscars: Film director Ruben Östlund´s unusual path to success https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/03/05/from-ski-bum-to-an-oscar-nominated-film-director-ruben-ostlunds-unusual-path-to-success/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/03/05/from-ski-bum-to-an-oscar-nominated-film-director-ruben-ostlunds-unusual-path-to-success/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2019 11:21:40 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1140 Swedish film director Ruben Östlund, 44, grew up with his mother on Styrsö, a small rocky island on the south coast of Sweden with only 1400 inhabitants. He learned to ski in Lapland during regular visits to his grandparents. While Östlund continued windsurfing with his friends in the sea surrounding […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/03/05/from-ski-bum-to-an-oscar-nominated-film-director-ruben-ostlunds-unusual-path-to-success/feed/ 0 1140 From Lapland To The Today Show – The Club A Story https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:08:51 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=922 It´s the summer of 1984 and Barry Levinson, a young college business graduate from Colorado, is driving a rental car in Lapland towards Kemijärvi, a small provincial town in eastern Lapland, less than an hour´s drive from the Soviet border. Van Halen´s Jump is playing on the radio. As the […]

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