Fortunately, TCMFF 2018 did offer
various opportunities to celebrate talented, perhaps less zingy writer - directors such as Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career); James Ivory (Maurice); Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer); Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a salute which makes me happy even though my mind remains boggled that it ever managed to happen);
and Ron Shelton (
Bull Durham), whose gem - laden career
bears an inordinate degree of dedication to making sports movies the way Hollywood doesn't like to make»em — raunchy, unpredictable, often melancholy —
and then proving that audiences would come to see them anyway.
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