Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and co-director Lynn Novick go deep with an extra inning chapter to their earlier work about the sport. This installment brings the national pastime’s recent history up-to-date, covering the years 1994-2009. [...]
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This year’s Fall Classic promises one thing – there will be a new champion. The Giants have never won since moving to San Francisco and Texas has never been to the World Series. [...] How was it that a pudgy 20-year-old, Mexican, left-handed pitcher from a remote village in the Sonoran desert, unable to speak a word of English, could sell out stadiums across America and become a rock star overnight? [...] From their early days as a new expansion team in the early 60s under tempermental hall of fame quarterback-turned-coach Norm Van Brocklin and the glory days under Bud Grant with led by their Purple People Eaters on defense to some of the most brilliant offense in NFL history with Fran Tarkenton, Chuck Foreman, Randy Moss and Brett Favre with Adrian Peterson, Viking fans have enjoyed an exciting half-century of pro football in the Twin Cities including several Super Bowl appearances. [...] In a sport that had its prime a long time ago, horse racing’s success in Hollywood, after producing about 200 titles, has yielded few winners. Yet there are a handful that have bucked the odds of being ranked in the “also-ran” category and have captured an essence of the sport and continue to attract filmmakers. Usually there are two reasons behind that interest. One is that, like boxing, horse racing has traditionally been associated with crooked characters who are driven by the temptation of sudden success but more often than not teeter on ruin. The second is that the camera loves these most photogenic of animals. [...] The horse that won a rare Triple Crown in 1973 is the backdrop of a motion picture that Disney releases nationwide later in the week. Just as “The Blind Side” is a story more about the personal values of a strong-willed woman than football, “Secretariat” is more a character study of the lady behind the record-breaking horse. Diane Lane (“Unfaithful”) stars as Penny Tweedy, a housewife and mother of four who broke some barriers of her own crashing through the male-dominated racehorse ownership world to take Secretariat great success. [...] |
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