Friday, June 5th, 2009
Fri 5 – Thu 18 June
Dirs: Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck USA ’08 2hrs Subtitled Cert 15
As they skilfully avoided classroom and drug abuse clichés in their feature debut Half Nelson, Boden and Fleck similarly subvert the sports movie and immigrant’s tale with a wholly fresh and considered approach. Dominican teen Miguel “Sugar” Santos is a star pitcher who is drafted from his training facility to join the minor league baseball circuit in the United States. With authenticity, wit and intelligence, Sugar observes how the young man’s years of expectation are dampened by culture shock, injury and the machinery of professional sport, following him through his struggle to cast off the huge weight of expectations to realise his individual destiny.
FFI: sonypictures.com/classics/sugar
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Tue 2 June 1800hrs
Dir: Tom Hooper UK ’09 1hr 37mins Cert 15
Football expert and author David Goldblatt gives a special talk on football legend Brian Clough, the prolific but unlucky centre-forward, who became the towering manager who steered Nottingham Forest to Cup victories at home and in Europe. Followed by a screening of The Damned United, Tom Hoopers’ darkly humorous study of Clough’s tempestuous six weeks in charge of Leeds United, written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) and based on the controversial novel by David Peace.
FFI: sonypictures.co.uk/movies/thedamnedunited
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Mark Cosgrove, Watershed’s Head of Programme, is joined by football expert and author David Goldblatt to discuss the films showing in June 2009′s film season.
David Goldblatt recently published book ‘The Ball is Round’, a global history of Soccer, was described by the Guardian newspaper as having more food for thought in the few pages of the conclusion than in a hundred ghostwritten biographies of rich twentysomethings. Quite simply, ‘The Ball Is Round’ takes football history to a new level.
David has been working with Watershed over the past few years developing the programming around sport and culture and will be introducing some of the June 2009 screenings.
Visit watershed.co.uk/podcast/ to listen to the podcast.
Tags: Relays at Watershed
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
In anticipation of the greatest festival of sport – the Olympic Games in 2012 – Let the Games Begin reflects on sport’s cultural and social significance. Whilst sport and culture might not seem the most natural of companions, there is an incredible richness created when the two worlds come together as this season of films, talks and games demonstrates.
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