Sentences with phrase «hoop dreams film»

The One is a brilliant mode that gives off a great story, and comes with the ability to make you the star in your own Hoop Dreams film.

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Directed by Steve James, whose «Hoop Dreams» Ebert hailed as the best film of the 1990s, it's the kind of documentary the dying man wanted — honest, humane and inclusive.

While the film never reaches the kind of emotional peaks of James» best work like «Hoop Dreams» or «The Interrupters,» Abacus: Small Enough To Jail is no less compelling.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Timeless sports docu Hoop Dreams was famously one of Roger Ebert's favorite films.

While James» 1994 film Hoop Dreams was almost three hours in length, it never felt long because the story had momentum and a clear goal.

Notable films discovered at the Sundance Festival include sex, lies, and videotape, Blood Simple, American Dream, El Mariachi, Silverlake Life: The View from Here, The Waterdance, Ruby in Paradise, Spanking the Monkey, Hoop Dreams, Crumb, The Brothers McMullen, Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern, Welcome to the Dollhouse, and I Shot Andy Warhol.

In many ways, the film stands as stark counterpoint to the seminal «Hoop Dreams.»

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(James was nominated in 1995 in the film editing category for «Hoop Dreams» while Varda garnered an Honorary Oscar for her body of work in November at the Governors Awards.)

Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994) Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

«If Sundance gave an award for the most emotionally debilitating film of the festival, then Life Itself, a documentary from Hoop Dreams director Steve James about the life of Roger Ebert, would win it anew every screening... it's the movie that's moved and inspired me the most.»

James previously directed the seminal Sundance documentary Hoop Dreams, and with a candid Ebert as his subject this time around, he creates a film that is at once hard to watch and deeply captivating.»

To Tell The Truth will examine the history non-fiction films over the month of November — featuring more than 50 films including: Hoop Dreams, Woodstock, God's Country and more.

Hoop Dreams Year: 1994 Director: Steve James Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

Filmed over a five - year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighborhoods.

The film, which is directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), has been enduring a successful campaign on Indiegogo, where it currently has over 600 backers and is aiming to reach a goal of $ 150,000.

All of these are oft repeated themes in films, especially in sports films from He Got Game to Hoop Dreams to Bull Read More →

James is currently an artist in residence at St. Louis's Webster University, and this week he will present and take part in Q&A s for screenings of some of his films, including Hoop Dreams (April 26).

Documentaries became a box office factor with the rise of such films as «Hoop Dreams» and «Roger & Me.»

In 2004 and 2005, the makers of Hoop Dreams, in collaboration with Criterion, revisited the documentary's principle figures, Arthur Agee and William Gates, along with their families, to see what had been happening in their lives since the film's...

It has to be about Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction and Chungking Express (a film many of us only saw because Quentin Tarantino forced Harvey Weinstein to release it uncut and in its original language, something Weinstein is loathe to do with his Hong Kong properties to this day), not to mention Sátántangó and Ed Wood and Pom Poko and Exotica and The Shawshank Redemption and He's a Woman, She's a Man and Three Colors: Red and Drunken Master II and I Can't Sleep and Hoop Dreams and Clerks and Speed and In the Mouth of Madness and and and.

The ceremony will be hosted, for the third consecutive year, by award - winning nonfiction filmmaker Steve James (The Interrupters, Life Itself, Hoop Dreams), who is a Cinema Eye nominee this year for his latest film, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

Also like «Hoop Dreams,» it's not really a sports film; it's a film that uses sport as a way to see into lives, hopes and fears.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

So you were talking about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these less - well - known films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.

The danger is that the film's political impetus will escape notice: so far the media have treated Hoop Dreams to a pep rally of praise as a human drama, not as criticism of a dubious sports apparatus.

Acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and executive producers Martin Scorsese (The Departed) and Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) present LIFE ITSELF, a documentary film that recounts the inspiring and entertaining life of world - renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert — a story that is by turns personal, funny, painful, and transcendent.

Hoop Dreams was shot on video, which explains its use of the 1.33:1 aspect ratio long after that was replaced as film's standard.

After being snubbed for such widely beloved films as «Hoop Dreams», «Life Itself» and «The Interrupters», he may finally be due for a win on his first nomination.

Even if you don't recognize the name, it's likely you've seen films they've produced — most likely their work with Steve James, including Hoop Dreams and Life Itself.

Fine Line Features, the distributor of «Hoop Dreams,» has spent thousands of dollars to persuade academy members to make the film the first documentary ever nominated for best picture.