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An oral history of Hoop Dreams, 20 years after its premiere
In January 1994, a group of filmmakers from Chicago went to the Sundance Film Festival to accomplish the impossible, by selling a three-hour documentary about two inner-city teens hoping to get to the NBA. By the time they left, their lives had changed, and so had the way non-fiction filmmaking is perceived.
In January 1994, a group of filmmakers from Chicago went to the Sundance Film Festival to accomplish the impossible, by selling a three-hour documentary about two inner-city teens hoping to get to the NBA. By the time they left, their lives had changed, and so had the way non-fiction filmmaking is perceived.
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That was a fun read. Great movie. If any Swampers haven't seen Hoop Dreams, they should immediately rectify that.kranepool wrote:An oral history of Hoop Dreams, 20 years after its premiere
In January 1994, a group of filmmakers from Chicago went to the Sundance Film Festival to accomplish the impossible, by selling a three-hour documentary about two inner-city teens hoping to get to the NBA. By the time they left, their lives had changed, and so had the way non-fiction filmmaking is perceived.
Totally Kafkaesque
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As huge a basketball fan as I am, I can't believe I've never seen it.
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Oddly, neither have I.Giff wrote:As huge a basketball fan as I am, I can't believe I've never seen it.
[changed] the way non-fiction filmmaking is perceived.
It what?
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It did launch a renaissance for the feature-length documentary. It was arguably an almost dead art form at that point. Sure you had Errol Morris and a few other folks doing their thing, but it really came back gangbusters after Hoop Dreams.Scottie wrote:Oddly, neither have I.Giff wrote:As huge a basketball fan as I am, I can't believe I've never seen it.
[changed] the way non-fiction filmmaking is perceived.
It what?
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No, I singled out that sentence because it is completely meaningless. Read it carefully; it's absurd.
Feature-length documentary filmmaking was never near death. It may have been suffering from a lack of well-made films in America, or more accurately "profitable" films in America, but it was doing just fine in the rest of the world, thankyouverymuch. "Dead art form"? Not remotely.
Feature-length documentary filmmaking was never near death. It may have been suffering from a lack of well-made films in America, or more accurately "profitable" films in America, but it was doing just fine in the rest of the world, thankyouverymuch. "Dead art form"? Not remotely.
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I agree the sentence was poorly worded/inaccurate. And dead art form was strong, but it certainly engendered a resurgence in documentaries and that's hard to argue.Scottie wrote:No, I singled out that sentence because it is completely meaningless. Read it carefully; it's absurd.
Feature-length documentary filmmaking was never near death. It may have been suffering from a lack of well-made films in America, or more accurately "profitable" films in America, but it was doing just fine in the rest of the world, thankyouverymuch. "Dead art form"? Not remotely.
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It's Scottie...ain't nothing too hard to argue. Insert smiley.brian wrote:I agree the sentence was poorly worded/inaccurate. And dead art form was strong, but it certainly engendered a resurgence in documentaries and that's hard to argue.Scottie wrote:No, I singled out that sentence because it is completely meaningless. Read it carefully; it's absurd.
Feature-length documentary filmmaking was never near death. It may have been suffering from a lack of well-made films in America, or more accurately "profitable" films in America, but it was doing just fine in the rest of the world, thankyouverymuch. "Dead art form"? Not remotely.
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I know y'all might find this hard to believe, but:
FSU, Tallahassee police committed grave errors in Jameis Winston rape investigation
FSU, Tallahassee police committed grave errors in Jameis Winston rape investigation
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That's really disturbing. But, not too surprising.brian wrote:I know y'all might find this hard to believe, but:
FSU, Tallahassee police committed grave errors in Jameis Winston rape investigation
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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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The so called White War was a series of hellish battles during World War One fought between Italians and Austro-Hungarians.
Five years ago, I hiked through some of the more accessible battle sites and visited the museum up in the hills.
It is really hard to imagine anything worse than what these soldiers went through.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ns-history
Five years ago, I hiked through some of the more accessible battle sites and visited the museum up in the hills.
It is really hard to imagine anything worse than what these soldiers went through.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ns-history
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Pruitt wrote:The so called White War was a series of hellish battles during World War One fought between Italians and Austro-Hungarians.
Five years ago, I hiked through some of the more accessible battle sites and visited the museum up in the hills.
It is really hard to imagine anything worse than what these soldiers went through.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ns-history
that's the inspiration for A Farewell to Arms.
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I'm nearly halfway through the 8 hour, 4 part Hardcore History podcast titled, "Blueprint for Armageddon". No mention of the White War yet.AB_skin_test wrote:Pruitt wrote:The so called White War was a series of hellish battles during World War One fought between Italians and Austro-Hungarians.
Five years ago, I hiked through some of the more accessible battle sites and visited the museum up in the hills.
It is really hard to imagine anything worse than what these soldiers went through.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... ns-history
that's the inspiration for A Farewell to Arms.
I highly recommend Hardcore History.
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I like Fallows, but I have not been able to muscle up to read this. Let me know if he says anything drastic that we don't already know to be so.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
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The Man Who Broke the Music Business
Fascinating read on probably the single biggest pirate/bootlegger.
Fascinating read on probably the single biggest pirate/bootlegger.
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Ahh, right down the street in ol' Braddock.
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Wright Thompson's story about Claudia Williams and her relationship with her very famous father is worth the time.
For whatever reason, I found this very difficult to read.
For whatever reason, I found this very difficult to read.
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I love me some Wright Thompson, but there's not really anything particularly revelatory that wasn't in Williams' biography (The Kid).
ETA: Though to be clear, I agree it's still worth a read.
ETA: Though to be clear, I agree it's still worth a read.
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Even though I never saw him play (I'm not that old) Williams was as big a hero to me as possible for a celebrity/someone I did not actually know in real life. Bigger than Willie Mays in my teenaged estimation. His standard, sanitized (pre-Ball Four) autobiography, My Turn at Bat I read a half dozen times; I memorized The Science of Hitting (and had my one truly successful season as a baseball player, maxed out at 15yo all stars.)
Over the years, and since his death, my childhood hero has been as thoroughly demolished as possible. Hard to imagine anything that could shock me now about Teddy Ballgame[*]. But, I'll give it a shot.
*I mean, how do you top that he was half-Mexican?
(I keed, I keed my Mexican hermanos on Cinco de Mayo.)
Over the years, and since his death, my childhood hero has been as thoroughly demolished as possible. Hard to imagine anything that could shock me now about Teddy Ballgame[*]. But, I'll give it a shot.
*I mean, how do you top that he was half-Mexican?
(I keed, I keed my Mexican hermanos on Cinco de Mayo.)
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
Those days are gone forever
Over a long time ago
Oh yeah…
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This was really, really good.P.D.X. wrote:The Man Who Broke the Music Business
Fascinating read on probably the single biggest pirate/bootlegger.
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This was great. Would make an awesome movie.
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That was one of my first reactions, as well.Giff wrote:This was great. Would make an awesome movie.
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Since the term has returned to prominence lately, here is the article about policing neighborhoods, "Broken Windows".
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That is a nice look back at a 1982 article, on a theory since completely discredited, yet still championed.
Taibbi has at the failed theory: Why Baltimore Blew Up
Taibbi has at the failed theory: Why Baltimore Blew Up
Broken Windows policing, which gained renown in the Nineties thanks to politicians like former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is the mutant offspring of our already infamous race history, a set of high-tech tricks to disguise old-school discriminatory policing as cheery-sounding, yuppie-approved, Malcolm Gladwell-endorsed pop sociology. The ideas grew out of a theory advanced in 1982 by a pair of academics, James Q. Wilson of Harvard and George Kelling of Rutgers. "If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken," the pair wrote in The Atlantic, arguing in "Broken Windows" that disorder and crime were "inextricably linked" and that fixing the former would impact the latter.
Who knows? Maybe, you were kidnapped, tied up, taken away and held for ransom.
Those days are gone forever
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Oh yeah…
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Feather bowling in Detroit.
trust me, the piece is a lot more interesting than you would think. I've been to the place in question many a time. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been anywhere in the world.
trust me, the piece is a lot more interesting than you would think. I've been to the place in question many a time. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been anywhere in the world.
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A few years ago, Anthony Bourdain went there (probably in "No Reservations") and he got drink and tried the feather bowling. Looked like a riot.brian wrote:Feather bowling in Detroit.
trust me, the piece is a lot more interesting than you would think. I've been to the place in question many a time. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been anywhere in the world.
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The Chameleon.
The write-up that led me to click on it:
The write-up that led me to click on it:
But, there's more than that.Frédéric Bourdin was an imposter. His "trail of cons," for which he used five languages and dozens of identities, extended for years across Europe and America.
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I went there first with a Belgian acquaintance in the early '80s. It's the real deal. This is a terrific depiction.brian wrote:Feather bowling in Detroit.
trust me, the piece is a lot more interesting than you would think. I've been to the place in question many a time. It's one of the most interesting places I've ever been anywhere in the world.
Brian, what interested you about this place?
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This is a fascinating read about a pair of identical twins who were accidentally raised as a pair of fraternal twins after a hospital mix-up.
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá
Totally Kafkaesque
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Crazy.Shirley wrote:This is a fascinating read about a pair of identical twins who were accidentally raised as a pair of fraternal twins after a hospital mix-up.
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá
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I want to punch everybody in the opening segment of that article. Probably the rest too but I couldn't make it that far.
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Yeah, I'd probably be interested in reading a story not about a bunch of douchy, entitled New York fratbros and their experiences with Tinder. I think there's a story there waiting to be told that would be interesting, but it wasn't this one.Johnny Carwash wrote:I want to punch everybody in the opening segment of that article. Probably the rest too but I couldn't make it that far.
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