Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder
Viewers interested in modern Documentary cinema often explore Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder because of its cast, story direction, and audience popularity.
Through softly textured 16mm photography and regional iconography, Silva offers a modernist reflection on two of upstate New York’s most storied 19th century touchstones—the landscape painters of the Hudson River School and the legend of Rip Van Winkle—nodding to a few musical heroes along the way.
