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Film Category: Thematic
Welcome to the saddle-busting, bone-breaking world of bull riding, where only the toughest cowboys can make it through a season to the final competition and…
MORE ›Paul Newman stars as Reggie Dunlop, the aging player-coach of a minor-league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs. In the wake of local mill closings and a…
MORE ›With 382 career wins, Bobby Bowden is one of the winningest coaches in college football. Since 1976, when he became coach at Florida State, hundreds…
MORE ›This Sporting Life, Lindsay Anderson’s feature film debut following years of documentary work, centers on down-and-out coal miner Frank Machin, masterfully portrayed by a young…
MORE ›Ninety minutes, seventeen cameras, one global icon—Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait is as hard to categorize as its enigmatic subject. Part experimental film, part subversive…
MORE ›What would make a seven-year-old knowingly risk his life? Why would anyone yearn to become a bullfighter? And why, in particular, would the filmmaker’s father…
MORE ›Academy Award-winner Barbara Kopple completed her portrait of one of the most controversial figures in boxing history in 1993, just after he was convicted of…
MORE ›Based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, Sewing Woman paints a bittersweet portrait of…
MORE ›Reminiscent of La Buena Vista Social Club, but even more sensuous. Here the rhythm of a country—a place—is refracted through the sights and sounds of…
MORE ›The melancholy world of Chechnya, divided into three rooms, each an elegiac portrayal of a land without spirit. In the first room we are introduced…
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