tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post6481434142614640018..comments2024-03-21T00:30:32.509-07:00Comments on From A Left Wing: The "Great Hollywood Soccer Movie"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-36925656281561729132010-06-09T02:43:31.880-07:002010-06-09T02:43:31.880-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.姿思穎穎https://www.blogger.com/profile/16917123199718701072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-7968113925510573152010-06-08T08:05:43.184-07:002010-06-08T08:05:43.184-07:00I would urge everyone to join this blog (and me) a...I would urge everyone to join this blog (and me) and just hope that Hollywood continues to stay out of soccer. Think about how the movie "Crossroads" treated the blues. Devil-worshipping black man is saved by white kid who battles other white kid in a virtuoso musical duel. White kids wins when he incorporates Bach. It could be this bad. <br /><br />To follow up on another post, earlier, I just read (in --Die Zeit--) that FIFA will allow the Iranian women's team to compete in caps that cover the hair but not the body. Covering your neck implies a "political or religious" statement. Crossing yourself is okay by FIFA, though. <br /><br />There are some hard decisions here. The Scottish FA banned crossing yourself because fan reaction threatened the match. There is no such threat posed by a team in a hijab.Murfmenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877154740991965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-89350281375487652542010-06-07T13:46:08.077-07:002010-06-07T13:46:08.077-07:00I missed it at the Newport Beach Film Festival in ...I missed it at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April but Pelada (Brazilian slang for pickup game) sounds dreamy. It's a documentary that follows two Americans as they circle the globe in search of pickup games. From the film's website: "From prisoners in Bolivia to moonshine brewers in Kenya, from freestylers in China to women who play in hijab in Iran, Pelada is the story of the people who play."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-16258750186514749652010-06-07T13:39:13.619-07:002010-06-07T13:39:13.619-07:00Wow! Here’s my take on this – soccer is gaining so...Wow! Here’s my take on this – soccer is gaining some mainstream cache when the LA Times publishing not just this story wondering where is the great Hollywood movie? But also this one: latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-soccer-lit-20100606,0,280644.story discussing soccer books. <br />I mean, as you point out, plenty of bad Hollywood movies, and plenty about sports, how many years has “Hollywood” even been aware of soccer? When they make 100’s of movies about soccer, a couple of them will be great, just like boxing, baseball, puberty, whatever…Jevanwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10256683690477611328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-6794917192558604822010-06-07T08:42:58.541-07:002010-06-07T08:42:58.541-07:00There's a really great Chilean film from the 9...There's a really great Chilean film from the 90s called 'Historias de Futbol' that I would highly recommend. Four short films, stories about the game and how it relates to the lives of people in Chile - an amateur league player offered a bribe to throw a match, a group of poor kids in a small desert town trying to get in to a league match, a student from Santiago traveling in the middle of nowhere and trying to watch Chile v West Germany at the World Cup.<br /><br />It's beautifully made and moving - and I got it from Netflix! Check it out if you've got time.<br /><br />(p.s. Jennifer, did you get my emails...?)Pranjalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976261382711003875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-66962428094698958692010-06-06T22:51:06.454-07:002010-06-06T22:51:06.454-07:00Just learned about another - "The Two Escobar...Just learned about another - "The Two Escobars" - playing at the LA Film Festival! Thank you for all the recommendations, and for the shift in perspective re the very idea of a "soccer movie"!Jennifer Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05004554513454749517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-85400307580307359932010-06-06T19:03:12.048-07:002010-06-06T19:03:12.048-07:00I also know of a brazilian film called Linha de Pa...I also know of a brazilian film called Linha de Passe, which tells the story of 4 brothers, one of which is trying to succeed in pro soccer... Very good film.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03084508769157921331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-8677586803771699312010-06-06T10:19:35.947-07:002010-06-06T10:19:35.947-07:00for some reason soccer movies are pretty new to sp...for some reason soccer movies are pretty new to sports-movies... but not to block busters (music videos and documentaries included) at all.<br />The main question seems to be, if one of the few soccer movies will effect a larger community rather than just soccer fans - will the game transport ‘only’ the beauty of itself or if their is a story based around it.<br /><br />So why John Horn ask for a mainstream movie (Hollywood), as long as FIFA has its own ideas about what a soccer ‘movie’ is?<br />You know those with all goals: FIFA WM 2006<br />Others with the "big moments”: FIFA WM Highlights.<br />One tells a tale: Germany. A Summer’s Tale. 2006<br />At least least the highly official one. The Official Film of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.<br />Each is a documentary, the last one directed by Michael Apted (James Bond - The world is not enough).<br /><br />Vigash Dhorasoo’s 'Substitute' (in the shade of Zidane) (2006)<br />- a experimental movie about himself as substitute player which only was playing for 8 minutes in a five week tournament, is still not accepted from FIFA. <br />(“(Vikash Dhorasoo, Fred Poulet, F 2006). The World Cup 2006 from the perspective of the French national player Vikash Dhorasoo and the writer and musician Fred Poulet. Both shoot with a super-8 camera: the one his everyday experiences as an increasingly frustrated substitute player for the Équipe tricolore; the other everything that happens during his travels throughout Germany and inside the stadium at all the French games. Melancholy instead of euphoria, loneliness instead of "one-for-all-and-all-for-one" rhetoric, a tragic hero instead of a glorious athlete – SUBSTITUTE is the other docu-mentary soccer film.” Arsenal Cinema) Shown at Arsenal Cinema Berlin, Germany - till June 9).<br /><br />What movies they will produce this year?<br /><br />Here are two good examples were soccer is mainstreaming something of its beauty, some peacefully.<br />“Merry Christmas” can tell something more about soccer, based on a true life event in World War I, where the British and German soldiers stopped fighting to play a game of football on christmas eve - they met each other in No Man's Land to conflict peacefully.<br />Though it’s ‘only’ listed as drama and war movie The Christmas Day truce was an inspiration for the England football team's official anthem for Euro 2004. <br /><br />O.k., it's not really a movie, but Sigur Ros award-winning music video 'Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa’ from 2001 shows a nice incorporation into traditional film narrative, sprawned a cinematic and controversial short movie.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZtT4Th9Ys&a=E2ib1TatiZg&playnext_from=ML<br />The band named the song after a quote sarcastically spoken by an Icelandic weatherman during the war in Kosovo: "í dag viðrar vel til loftárása" / "today is good weather for an airstrike / Set in 1950s Iceland, it features a kiss between two young boys.Torsten Lederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14017322513919869544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6165780438929797577.post-54606429570441523452010-06-06T00:31:52.124-07:002010-06-06T00:31:52.124-07:00Not sure how much exposure it got outside the UK, ...Not sure how much exposure it got outside the UK, but Gregory's Girl is an example of a British film with a soccer theme that had mainstream appeal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com