The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced today that Steve James, director of one of the most successful documentaries ever, the 1994 epic Hoop Dreams, will curate a sports-themed program at this year’s festival, which runs April 2-5. James’ sidebar will be called This Sporting Life, and will not be limited to documentaries. Instead, the […]
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Hoop Dreams director to curate sports films at Full Frame
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced today that Steve James, director of one of the most successful documentaries ever, the 1994 epic Hoop Dreams, will curate a sports-themed program at this year’s festival, which runs April 2-5. James’ sidebar will be called This Sporting Life, and will not be limited to documentaries. Instead, the […]
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CNN follows suggestion of Indy film review?
In late October, we published a review (by the author of this post) of I.O.U.S.A., Patrick Creadon’s deeply unsettling documentary about America’s unsound finances, particularly the $10 trillion national debt. Among the experts featured in the film were Warren Buffett, patron saint of value investing, and Paul O’Neill, an early, principled casualty of the George […]
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New England Revolution comes to Cary
That’s the New England Revolution, as in the Major League Soccer team that has been to the MLS Cup final six times and is the current holder of the 2008 SuperLiga Championship. The Cary-based Carolina RailHawks of the rival USL-1 professional soccer league announced today that the Revolution will travel here for a preseason friendly […]
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Who pays Butch Davis?
The News & Observer has a story out today that reviews UNC football coach Butch Davis’ salary and attempts to assess whether the school is getting its money’s worth. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in light of this Saturday’s Meineke Car Care bowl game in Charlotte, and with the season-long increased attendance and revenue, they’ve decided that Davis’ […]
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The Reader
The Reader opens locally Jan. 2 For those of us with limited patience for the kinds of exquisitely tasteful literary adaptations that tend to litter theaters in December, The Reader requires, well, patience. Adapted by playwright David Hare (a principal offender in the world of tasteful screenplay adaptations) from a bestselling novel by German author […]
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Frost/Nixon
Frost/ Nixon opens Thursday throughout the Triangle The 1977 televised interviews of the disgraced President Richard M. Nixon, conducted by the British television personality David Frost, is one of those cultural moments that most of us under the age of, say, 38, regard with bafflementif we’ve even ever heard of it. Thanks to Frost/ Nixon, […]
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RailHawks announce second round of tryouts
Last weekend, the RailHawks evaluated about 50 players in an open tryout and invited about 10 of them to training camp. Apparently, new coach Martin Rennie was so encouraged by the quality of the prospects that the team decided to schedule another tryout, for Feb. 14 and 15. The sign-up process appears to be unchanged: […]
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Never mind Kenny Rogers, here’s Morrissey
The Durham Performing Arts Center announced today that Morrissey will play March 11, 2009. Short notice to get your money together, though: Tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m., at the DPAC box office, by telephone, on its Web site and at Ticketmaster outlets. Prices are a reasonable $25-$42. This should sell […]
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Was Martin Eakes targeted for attack?
In an eyebrow-raising column this morning in The N&O, Barry Saunders ventures the suggestion that the startlingly vicious mugging of Martin Eakes, co-founder and CEO of Self-Help Credit Union, was not a garden-variety crime but a targeted attack. Saunders notes that Eakes has certainly made adversaries over the years, and perhaps one of them is […]
