Surprised ESPN docs where in NYFF as they are a sponsor of Tribeca and show most of their films there. Not looking forward to CATCHING HELL re Cubs which premiered in Tribeca .
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:41 PM, <ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hi All > > It's a weirdly rainy Tuesday here, and I'm listless...so I thought I'd > share an amusing (for me)flash of cinematic illumination I had recently. > > I've been a juror for the New York Film Festival for the past 10 or 12 > years. Up until the last few years, I was just a name on the masthead > (not wanting to shell out for a trip to NY each Fall). Recently, however, > the judging has gone online...a really fun thing to do. Somehow I got > slotted in a strange mishmash jury category: ads, PSAs, tourism and > industrial promos, industrial films, and the odd doc. > > Here's where the illumination comes in: The group I've judged over the > past few years has included a number of ESPN documentaries. Now I gotta > tell you: you could search high and low, far and wide on this planet and > not find anyone LESS interested in or informed about sports than I. (I've > been at UCB for close to 34 years and have never attended a game and I > just learned recently that the San Jose Sharks are a hockey team)...does > that tell you something?) Nonetheless, I watched. > > Well, I was blown away. Some of these films were made by big names: > "Muhammad and Larry" by Al Maysles; "The Band That Wouldn't Die", by > Barry Levinson; "Kings Ransom:, by Peter Berg; "The Lost Son of Havana" by > the Farrelly Brothers; "No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson", by > Steve James. Others made by folks I haven't heard of. In all cases, I > was absolutely enthralled by the high drama and skillful > storytelling...really amazing stuff. Which just goes to show that in > competent hands, almost anything that goes on in the world can be revealed > to be worth filming and watching. > > The good news is that I just discovered that most of the stuff I watched > (and more) is available on home video DVD: ESPN Films: 30 for 30. > > Check it out. > > > gary > > Gary Handman > Director > Media Resources Center > Moffitt Library > UC Berkeley > > 510-643-8566 > ghand...@library.berkeley.edu > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > > "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." > --Francois Truffaut > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. > -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) jessicapros...@gmail.com
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
