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Maybe my favorite all-time documentary #upintheholler
09 Tuesday Oct 2018
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Maybe my favorite all-time documentary #upintheholler
12 Tuesday Jul 2016
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I have never had a movie make me this emotional, I am bawling like a baby…please everyone watch this documentary tonight or as soon as possible! I really feel it was a bit life changing for me.
30 Sunday Mar 2014
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AAU, African American, basketball, books, culture, documentary, gay, Hoop Dreams, independent film, Isaiah Thomas, LGBT, love, movie reviews, movies, perspective, point of view, racism, Sundance Film Festival
This film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American teenagers who are recruited by a scout from St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominantly white high school with an outstanding basketball program, whose alumni include NBA great Isiah Thomas.
Agee and Gates are both from poor, African-American neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. Gates lived in Cabrini–Green, while Agee and his family reside in West Garfield Park.
Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and having to acclimate to a foreign social environment, Gates and Agee struggle to improve their athletic skills in a job market with heavy competition. Along the way, their families celebrate their successes and support each other during times of economic hardship caused from the school change.
The film raises a number of issues concerning race, class, economic division, education, and values in contemporary America.
This film also lets us see the ugly underbelly of the AAU circuit and their shady recruitment practices. For example, Agee was found and recruited to St. Joseph by a “scout” who found him on a playground in the hood, when he was in the 8th grade. Too bad nobody recruited me, 205 ya heard?
23 Monday Dec 2013
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23 Friday Aug 2013
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Blackfish, cinema, culture, documentary, john jernigan, killer whales, movie reviews, movies, Orlando, Seaworld, Shamu, St. Petersburg
This fantastically troubling and eye-opening documentary will make you never want to go to Seaworld again…
07 Wednesday Aug 2013
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art, Birmingham, culture, documentary, inspirational, Jacksonville, john jernigan, movie reviews, movies, Murder on a Sunday Morning, murder trial, St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen, Oscar award-winning, inspirational, troubling, unsettling
23 Tuesday Apr 2013
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americana, appalachia, boone county, culture, different, documentary, humor, inspirational, jesco white, john jernigan, point of view, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
The roughest, toughest, wildest family in all of West Virginia. Appalachia, rural Americana, a great documentary
02 Tuesday Apr 2013
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cinema, culture, darwin's nightmare, documentary, john jernigan, movie reviews, movies, Nile perch, perspective, point of view, Tanzania
This documentary centers around Tanzania, and the desperate plight of her people. The Nile perch is not a fish indigenous to Africa. It was introduced into Lake Victoria (probably by European tourists) and it flourished, decimating all the local fish. Now there are huge factories that process the perch and send it to Europe for sale, while the Tanzanian people slowly starve. The documentary also reveals that the planes transporting the perch also move other cargo (guns and drugs).