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When a West Indian cricket team from Brixton are invited to play a charity game in a small English village, members of both teams have their reservations. Relive the inspiring story of one of Britain’s most memorable Olympic characters, with Taron Egerton as the ski-jumper who made history at the 1988 Winter Olympics. A day in the life of North London non-leaguers Hendon F.C., seen through the eyes of their club mascot, carpet fitter Dave Garner. Drama 2019 67 mins Director: Akin Omotoso.
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worth having if your a norman beaton fan. Fresh off portrayals of Kenneth Williams, Tony Blair and David Frost, in The Damned United Michael Sheen plays another famous Brit in the midst of professional struggle.
A visiting American senator (Stanley Maxted), who at first seems present in the film to act as a ‘way in’ for international viewers, is given a crash course on the rules and terminology of the sport by a fellow Test match spectator, before exiting the film little more illuminated than before. Illustrated booklet containing essays and credits.
Drama 2020 89 mins Director: Bassam Tariq. Playing Away subtly explores and undermines white and black stereotypes and succeeds in linking two familiar but strange cultures through the simple device of a cricket match. We saw this movie many years ago enjoyed it immensley, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2014. Learn more about DVD region specifications, Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2017.
With no irony intended, the villagers of Seddington, led by liberal Marjorie Matthews, invite the Caribbean Brixton Conquistadors to their green and pleasant land for a cricket match to commemorate African Famine Week.
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When a West Indian cricket team from Brixton are invited to play a charity game in a small English village, members of both teams have their reservations.
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And there's one central moment involving three village youths and a visiting female that seems strangely out of dramatic and comedic kilter with the rest of the film. A cheerful mystery-thriller, starring Leslie Banks as a theatrical detective investigating the murder of an amateur footballer during his team’s friendly with league winners Arsenal, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery opens and closes with possibly the other finest depiction of football in all of cinema. The taped crusader: VHS nerds, media scholars and archive enthusiasts will appreciate this documentary about the African-American activist who recorded 30 years of TV news.
Kurosawa’s assured debut film about a young man’s spiritual journey through the study and practice of judo. © 2020 British Film Institute. Drama 1965 180 mins Director: Akira Kurosawa. Crime 1998 111 mins Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. For racing sequences set at a time when F1 carried a real risk of fatality, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle brings an effectively impressionistic sense of peril, but Morgan – who conceived of the film as a low-budget ‘race’ to professional success by his two lead characters, without actual racing – locates the real urgency in the off-track dialogue between Hunt and Lauda. While notable as much for its psychological portrayal as its in-the-ring drama, as a gritty tale of one man’s determination to triumph over adversity it belongs squarely in the tradition of the great sports movie – a genre that’s had its fair share of victories on British soil. Documentary 2020 75 mins Director: Tamara Mariam Dawit. In Paddy Considine’s new film as writer-director, Journeyman, Considine himself stars as Matty Burton, a middleweight boxing champ attempting to piece his life back together after suffering a terrible brain injury. Find out about international touring programmes, BFI Film Academy: opportunities for young creatives, Get funding to progress my creative career, Search the BFI National Archive collections, Read research data and market intelligence, Search for projects funded by National Lottery, Apply for British certification and tax relief, Get help as a new filmmaker and find out about NETWORK, Find out about booking film programmes internationally.
More privileged subjects have had their time in the spotlight, as in Chariots of Fire (1981) or Oxford-Cambridge boat race biopic True Blue (1996), but the stars of British sports movies have – like Journeyman’s Matty – tended to be blue-collar, hardscrabble underdogs.
PLAYING AWAY. In Brixton and his fictional idyllic English village, Trinidad-born Ové presents two distinct countries, one of run-down nightclubs and everyday urban grind, the other of polite local pubs and pretty village greens. Horace Ové ... Latest from the BFI.
Brühl in particular impresses, playing someone who was never eager to please minus any bids for likeability.
“The measure of the vast superiority of cricket over any other game is that it steadfastly refuses to cater to the boorish craving for excitement.”. Selling to the BFI.
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Though it features scenes of rugger directed with astonishing confidence by first-time feature filmmaker Anderson, who makes the game appear both savage and graceful, This Sporting Life is first and foremost a ruthless character study set largely off field, one so uncommercial it helped kill British studios’ appetite for the social realist New Wave for good. The focus then shifts to Sam Palmer (Jack Warner), a legendary cricketer playing his last international game and reckoning with his legacy, after his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) questions the value of a sport whose appeal he finds mystifying. Please try again. Werner Herzog’s moving portrait of a record-breaking ski jumper.
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Even allowing for comic effect the characters are very crudely drawn (village tearaways in cap sleeve T-shirts and permanent snarls, and there's even a crusty upper class colonel-type with a monocle).
For Liddell, sporting glory means glory to a God who bestowed on him an awesome gift, whereas for Abrahams, his success on a world stage would mean combating prejudice, on behalf of himself and the “half-Italian, half-Arab” trainer (Ian Holm) who added crucial yards to his dash.
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Inspired by the London boxing matches he attended at the time, Alfred Hitchcock wrote his one and only original screenplay for The Ring, the second of three features that he had on release in 1927. BFI Reuben Library.
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