Kicking off across the nation comes a movie about a charismatic, highly talented yet tragic soccer star, Brazilian footballer, Heleno de Freitas. The striker spent most of his career with Botafogo, scoring over 200 goals for the club from 1939 through 1948. [...]
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In 2008 I read an article about a handful American basketball players who signed up to play for teams in Iran. At that time we were high at war in Iraq and it looked like Iran would be next — just as it does again today… Since we don’t have diplomatic relations with Iran I was immediately intrigued by the possibilities of “diplomacy through sports” that these athletes could potentially provide. [...] Award-winning filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) returns to China for another documentary on that country’s ever-changing economic landscape—this time through the lens of sports. [...] Sebastian Coe, two-time Olympic champion and chairman of the London Olympic Organizing Committee sums up his guiding philosophy in the seven years planning for these 2012 Games – “At the end of the Games, I want every athlete to look me in the eye and say ‘My performance was not impeded by anything you guys failed to do’. I want them all to succeed. All to reach their potential.” [...] Not all tracks for the British Open are alike. Oh there’s the shared dangerous pot bunkers, ravaging rough and potential for nasty weather conditions, but Royal Lytham & St Annes is the only one begins with a par-3 and the only Open course to have three par-3s on the front nine. [...] Two intense female rivals, Hyun Jung-Hwa (Ha Ji-Won) the top player in South Korean and her North Korean counterpart Lee Boon-Hee (Bae Doo-Na), must overcome their personal and cultural differences as they attempt to end the Chinese domination of the sport by joining forces for the first time as a “united team” at the 1991 World Championships in Chiba, Japan. [...] The Pulitzer Prize winning reporter, a long-time journalist for The New York Times, delivers a funny, insightful gem about a season NOT on the brink, as he recounts how former NBA player-turned-veteran coach Bob Weiss is hired by a wealthy Chinese steel magnate to improve the fortunes his Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of that nation’s worst teams. [...] ‘Seeing Sylvester Stallone in Rocky when we were kids actually was the reason for us to start boxing in the first place,’ said Wladimir, ‘We are very excited to support this theatrical project.’ [...] There has never been anyone like them in the history of boxing. Ukrainians Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are six-foot-six brothers in arms (big arms) and both heavyweight champions of the world. Their intense and complex interpersonal relationship is at the core of this film by German director Sebastian Dehnhart (“Stalingrad”, “Miracle at Bern”). [...] The stats are impressive – 8,000 filmmaking professionals from 70 nations involving over 400 films with more than $800 million in deals to be sealed over the next eight days. And they are all converging right in my backyard – Santa Monica, California. That averages out to about 30 new films every two hours – the majority of them world or U.S. premieres. It is the American Film Market, one of the biggest annual business gatherings of the independent motion picture production and distribution industry. [...] |
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