When I sit across from Philippe Petit, I look into eyes that have seen what no other eyes have, or will see again. Thirty five years ago, the French artiste sky-walked on a 450-pound cable between Tower 1 and Tower 2 of New York City’s World Trade Center. For almost forty-five minutes, he walked, danced, hopped, knelt and lay down on the wire, as microdots of people watched from below, and as police waited at the edge to arrest him. The word “death-defying” doesn’t do justice to what the Frenchman achieved that day. Imagination-defying is more like it. For the past seven years, the Twin Towers have been framed within the context of their destruction. But Man on Wire, the new documentary by James Marsh, recalls the towers at their birth, and the man who looked at them and saw a stage in the sky.