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Film Junkie Anyone?

dwhitney — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:48:04 +0000

I found these amusing videos over at SlashFilm which were created by Scott Vincent, (who I believe was the director of many “Chappelle’s Show” episodes) for this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

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More ESPN Cinema

dwhitney — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:17:01 +0000

I had mentioned before how ESPN is going full force into the feature film game, one of the only markets they have yet to conquer. This has included both an upcomming Spike Lee doc on Kobe Bryant and involvement in the Tribeca Film Festival. The trend continues this weekend when you can see the national premiere of director Richard Linklater’s “Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach” on ESPN’s airwaves. The film follows the Texas Longhorn baseball team during the 06-07 season and especially their famed coach Augie Garrido. Linklater, widely known for his direction of films like “A Scanner Darkly” and “Dazed and Confused”, is no slouch in baseball either, having directed Billy Bob Thornton in the “Bad News Bears” remake. IMDB lists the film as:

“An intimate look inside the world of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history in any sport. He is the winner of five National Championships (3 at Cal State Fullerton and 2 at UT) and the only coach to win National Championships in four different decades and at two different schools. The film examines this remarkable coach’s career and unique approach to teaching the game with unprecedented access to his team meetings, practices, and conversations with players during games. “

“Inning by Inning” will be shown on ESPN2 (The Duece!) and ESPN2 HD!!!!!!!! on Sunday, June 15.
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Watch the Tribeca trailers

dwhitney — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:58:48 +0000

This is definitely not a complete list, but you can view 70 trailers from films showing at this years Tribeca Film Festival Here. It would take a while to watch them all, and it may be hard to get to excited unless you plan on seeing some of these at the festival, but it does give you a look at true independent film. Some of these movies are obviously shot on sub par digital cameras, others look horrendously boring or pretentious, and there are a few that just scream wow that looks powerful.

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ESPN EVERYTHING

dwhitney — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:15:00 +0000

ESPN started in 1979 with one cable television station. Today, the media conglomerate has over 15 television stations in addition to radio stations, websites, a large circulation magazine, a prime time awards show, and a chain of restaurants. The obviously glaring omission here is a film production company, and that is not to say they does not have one. ESPN Films has been around for seven years, mostly under the name ESPN Original Entertainment, but has yet to do something worthwhile. At least not until now.

ESPN Films has produced such unmemorable made for TV movies as the Bobby Knight biopic “A Season on the Brink”, Pete Roses’ “Hustle”, and Texas A&M football flick “The Junction Boys”. These moves obviously required very little effort and featured absolutely no talent. Wait, I take that back. “Home Improvement’s” Zachary Ty Bryan (AKA Brad) starred in the Army football scandal movie “Code Breakers”.

I said at least not until now because ESPN has already signed up with Robert Redford to produce a Jackie Robinson biopic, a revolutionary move I have already talked about as breaking the baseball film color barrier. ESPN has also joined forces with indie cinema in creating the 2nd annual Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, with all eleven featured films appearing in New York back to back Sunday, April 27 and Saturday, May 3. ESPN Classic (channel 9,876 on most home sets) will also be airing festival coverage and related sports movies on May 15. But ESPN’s best move yet is teaming up with Spike Lee to produce a new documentary on Kobe Bryant.

Inspired by “Zidane: A 21st-Century Portrait” which followed the French soccer star during every second of a game, Lee wanted to do something similar with Kobe. On the second to last game of this season, Lee positioned 18 cameras around the Staples Center following the Laker’s star pre, during, and post-game.

So finally ESPN secured some talent in Lee and Redford, and put some effort into this film festival thing. And while I am by no means rooting for ESPN to monopolize anything else, I am excited about better sports films and the prospect of watching them for free through my cable service. The Spike Lee Kobe joint will be aired sometime next year on either ESPN or its sister station ABC. That is going to look great in HD.

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