Swing and a miss. Striking out. Fair or foul. Rounding the bases. Touching them all.
Baseball is back. The latest opening day in history is upon us but nonetheless it’s still opening day.
Baseball is as much a part of America as mom, apple pie, the flag – and the movies.
No sport has been romanticized on the silver screen as often as baseball. Hollywood has been betting on baseball for decades and it still delivers a winning performance. Diamonds Are Forever isn’t just a James Bond film. It perfectly describes the relationship between the Silver Screen and the American Pastime.
Grab your peanuts and Cracker Jack, because you’re about to get caught in a run down of the greatest baseball films ever made.
42 (2013)
A biopic of when Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier while wearing No. 42 for the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, hence the title. The film earned $27.3 million during its opening weekend.
Baseball is back. The latest opening day in history is upon us but nonetheless it’s still opening day.
Baseball is as much a part of America as mom, apple pie, the flag – and the movies.
No sport has been romanticized on the silver screen as often as baseball. Hollywood has been betting on baseball for decades and it still delivers a winning performance. Diamonds Are Forever isn’t just a James Bond film. It perfectly describes the relationship between the Silver Screen and the American Pastime.
Grab your peanuts and Cracker Jack, because you’re about to get caught in a run down of the greatest baseball films ever made.
42 (2013)
A biopic of when Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier while wearing No. 42 for the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, hence the title. The film earned $27.3 million during its opening weekend.
- 10/8/2020
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
If anyone in Hollywood knows what it takes to get through epidemics, it’s Norman Lloyd. This protean actor was 3 in New York when the Spanish flu erupted in February 1918 and infected some 500 million people, about one-third of the world’s population. It came in four waves, and finally subsided in April 1920.
Norman has no particular memories of that plague, as he was kept indoors by his parents. And indoors he remains now, at the cozy, quiet, tree-enshrouded house on the far west side of Los Angeles that he’s owned since 1948. His wife Peggy died in 2011, but he has no shortage of friends (his annual November birthday party attracts up to 100 people) and keeps to a regular schedule under the supervision of a nurse and assistant who look after his daily needs. And, no, he isn’t working anymore; the last film he acted in was Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck five years ago.
Norman has no particular memories of that plague, as he was kept indoors by his parents. And indoors he remains now, at the cozy, quiet, tree-enshrouded house on the far west side of Los Angeles that he’s owned since 1948. His wife Peggy died in 2011, but he has no shortage of friends (his annual November birthday party attracts up to 100 people) and keeps to a regular schedule under the supervision of a nurse and assistant who look after his daily needs. And, no, he isn’t working anymore; the last film he acted in was Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck five years ago.
- 7/21/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most unexpected Oscar nominations this year came for a German film in the thick of the foreign-language race that managed to score love elsewhere: Caleb Deschanel’s cinematography notice for Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s “Never Look Away,” a three-hour epic inspired by the life of artist Gerhard Richter.
For Deschanel, a beloved industry veteran with six nominations dating back to 1983’s “The Right Stuff,” it was as much a shock to him as it was to the awards season chattering class.
“You sort of figure, ‘No chance; not enough people have seen the movie,'” Deschanel says, calling from London where he’s in the middle of production on Jon Favreau’s effects-driven remake of “The Lion King,” due out in July. “But I had so many calls from people who loved this movie.”
It’s easy to see why Deschanel’s colleagues in the cinematography branch,...
For Deschanel, a beloved industry veteran with six nominations dating back to 1983’s “The Right Stuff,” it was as much a shock to him as it was to the awards season chattering class.
“You sort of figure, ‘No chance; not enough people have seen the movie,'” Deschanel says, calling from London where he’s in the middle of production on Jon Favreau’s effects-driven remake of “The Lion King,” due out in July. “But I had so many calls from people who loved this movie.”
It’s easy to see why Deschanel’s colleagues in the cinematography branch,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
In the midst of March Madness and with the Kentucky Derby around the corner, the first pitch of baseball season is almost here.
A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”
To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.
The Bad News Bears
Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”
Who are we to argue with greatness?
After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...
A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”
To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.
The Bad News Bears
Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”
Who are we to argue with greatness?
After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...
- 4/4/2016
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
'The Fixer' movie with Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm (background) 'The Fixer' movie review: 1968 anti-Semitism drama wrecked by cast, direction, and writing In 1969, director John Frankenheimer declared that he felt "better about The Fixer than anything I've ever done in my life." Considering Frankenheimer's previous output – Seven Days in May, the much admired The Manchurian Candidate – it is hard to believe that the director was being anything but a good P.R. man for his latest release. Adapted from Bernard Malamud's National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (itself based on the real story of Jewish brick-factory worker Menahem Mendel Beilis), The Fixer is an overlong, overblown, and overwrought contrivance that, albeit well meaning, carelessly misuses most of the talent involved while sadistically abusing the patience – and at times the intelligence – of its viewers. John Frankenheimer overindulges in 1960s kitsch John Frankenheimer...
- 5/13/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Is this heaven? Nope, it’s Opening Week.
Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.
Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”
It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.
To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.
The Rookie
One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...
Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.
Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”
It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.
To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.
The Rookie
One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...
- 4/6/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A quarter-century ago, Kevin Costner hit a double-play, following up "Bull Durham" with "Field of Dreams" and becoming king of the sports movie. Twenty-five years later, as "Field of Dreams" marks its 25th anniversary (it was released on April 21, 1989), Costner is back with "Draft Day." The movie's about football, not baseball, and Costner's character plays in the executive suite, not on the field, but his mere presence still offers a reminder of great sports movies past.
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
- 4/20/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
First Law
Mads Mikkelsen ("Hannibal," "Casino Royale") is set to star in Diego Rafecas' drama "First Law". Set in the jungles of Argentina, Armand Assante and Adriana Barraza co-star.
Based on a true story, the plot centers on two brothers — one under the wing of a shaman, the other working for a corrupt corporation — who must choose where their loyalties lie when their ancestral home faces destruction. [Source: Deadline]
The Fixer
Melissa Leo will join James Franco in Ian Olds' "The Fixer", a film based on the novel by Bernard Malamud. Filming takes place in California and Morocco this Summer.
Franco plays a war journalist who has been in Afghanistan but suddenly finds himself doing crime reporting in Northern California. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Sylvie's Love
Larenz Tate ("Rescue Me") will star in and produce Eugene J. Ashe's "Sylvie's Love" which is set against New York's jazz scene in the late-50s and early-60s.
Mads Mikkelsen ("Hannibal," "Casino Royale") is set to star in Diego Rafecas' drama "First Law". Set in the jungles of Argentina, Armand Assante and Adriana Barraza co-star.
Based on a true story, the plot centers on two brothers — one under the wing of a shaman, the other working for a corrupt corporation — who must choose where their loyalties lie when their ancestral home faces destruction. [Source: Deadline]
The Fixer
Melissa Leo will join James Franco in Ian Olds' "The Fixer", a film based on the novel by Bernard Malamud. Filming takes place in California and Morocco this Summer.
Franco plays a war journalist who has been in Afghanistan but suddenly finds himself doing crime reporting in Northern California. [Source: Showbiz 411]
Sylvie's Love
Larenz Tate ("Rescue Me") will star in and produce Eugene J. Ashe's "Sylvie's Love" which is set against New York's jazz scene in the late-50s and early-60s.
- 2/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
What do Beethoven, Capote and Auden have in common? Seb Emina discovers the strange daily rituals of our artistic heroes
During the late 1940s, John Cheever worked to an unconventional routine. In the morning he would put on his business suit, leave his apartment, and catch the lift downstairs with any commuters. Then, when they reached the ground floor, he would keep going, down to the basement, where he'd walk to his favourite storage room, strip down to his boxer shorts and spend the morning writing. At noon he put his suit back on and headed back upstairs. Lunch followed, then a leisurely afternoon.
It worked for him. Or rather, it worked for his work. Despite their drudging reputation, fixed routines have proved an indispensable tool to artists of all kinds, from George Sand (who wrote through the night supported by chocolate and tobacco) to David Lynch (who no longer...
During the late 1940s, John Cheever worked to an unconventional routine. In the morning he would put on his business suit, leave his apartment, and catch the lift downstairs with any commuters. Then, when they reached the ground floor, he would keep going, down to the basement, where he'd walk to his favourite storage room, strip down to his boxer shorts and spend the morning writing. At noon he put his suit back on and headed back upstairs. Lunch followed, then a leisurely afternoon.
It worked for him. Or rather, it worked for his work. Despite their drudging reputation, fixed routines have proved an indispensable tool to artists of all kinds, from George Sand (who wrote through the night supported by chocolate and tobacco) to David Lynch (who no longer...
- 10/8/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
We’ve noticed something special about Rose Byrne. Well, actually Hollywood noticed it first and we’re just observing it now: The Aussie beauty is really good at playing poised, brainy ladies. And though the actress told VH1 News that “It’d be easier to learn Chinese” than to do the kind of tech stuff her Google exec character does in The Internship (out this week), we really believe her in the role. Look back at some of her other smart characters in the gallery below, but then check out a clip of something completely different after the jump.
Yes, that is Ms. Byrne playing Irene, Snoop Dogg/Lion’s Jewish girlfriend who steps out on him with Dylan McDermott, while all three of them squat in an awful abandoned building in order to write Very Important things, in 2005′s The Tenants. Based on a 1971 novel by Bernard Malamud, it...
Yes, that is Ms. Byrne playing Irene, Snoop Dogg/Lion’s Jewish girlfriend who steps out on him with Dylan McDermott, while all three of them squat in an awful abandoned building in order to write Very Important things, in 2005′s The Tenants. Based on a 1971 novel by Bernard Malamud, it...
- 6/6/2013
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
Special From:
“I work because I want to work,” says Redford, now 76. “Work keeps me going.”
By Barbara Lovenheim
When I interviewed Redford in 1984 for his role in "The Natural," he was defensive about his image as a matinee idol and hesitant to talk with reporters because, he told me, “if you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you’re wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.” Now 76, Redford has no reason to apologize for his appearance or his life; he has endured as a major talent for a very long time; he is still actively making films and starring in them, and he has turned Sundance into an important institute for independent filmmakers. He is now defying age and arthritis by working hard, playing tennis, skiing and riding horseback through miles of rugged country.
“I work because I want to work,” says Redford, now 76. “Work keeps me going.”
By Barbara Lovenheim
When I interviewed Redford in 1984 for his role in "The Natural," he was defensive about his image as a matinee idol and hesitant to talk with reporters because, he told me, “if you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you’re wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.” Now 76, Redford has no reason to apologize for his appearance or his life; he has endured as a major talent for a very long time; he is still actively making films and starring in them, and he has turned Sundance into an important institute for independent filmmakers. He is now defying age and arthritis by working hard, playing tennis, skiing and riding horseback through miles of rugged country.
- 5/15/2013
- Huffington Post
Jonathan Ames recently took New York Magazine on an outing to discuss his new Byliner novella You Were Never Really Here as well as the film adaptation of his canceled HBO show Bored to Death (which he's working on in addition to adaptations of Bernard Malamud's Pictures of Fidelman and Donald Westlake's 361). Problem was, we were discussing them, in typical Amesian fashion, in a steam room — not the usual forum for an in-depth interview. So for a more substantial update, we grabbed some chow (He opted for some bratwurst, sauerkraut, and split pea soup), and wound up with more material than we could even fit in the magazine. Here are those outtakes. Enjoy!Jonathan Ames, the character in Bored to Death, is a soft-boiled detective. Joe, in You Were Never Really Here, is pretty hard-boiled. [He's an ex-fbi agent who rescues women from the sex trade.] A little like...
- 3/1/2013
- by Jennifer Vineyard
- Vulture
Joy was unconfined among fans of cancelled HBO neo-noir sitcom Bored To Death last week when it was revealed that creator Jonathan Ames and star Jason Schwartzman had landed the chance to make a film based on the show. It would seem that that’s not the only project the pair are cooking up as they’re also working to adapt Bernard Malamud’s short story collection Pictures Of Fidelman.Malamud’s stories follow Arthur Fidelman, a hapless art student who heads to Rome sometime in the middle of the 20th century. While there are several tales in the book, the filmmakers are looking at Still Life and Naked Nude in particular, but according to the Hollywood Reporter other entries may end up feeding into the script.It’s early days for the project, which doesn’t yet have any financial backing, but Schwartzman wants to star and Ames wants...
- 1/30/2013
- EmpireOnline
Superfans of canceled series “Bored To Death” thought the news couldn’t get any better when it was announced last week that a movie based on the series is officially in development at HBO -- but it has! Now, THR reports that creator Jonathan Ames and star Jason Schwartzman are collaborating on another separate project, having optioned the rights to Bernard Malamud’s collection of short stories “Pictures of Fidelman,” with plans to co-write an adaptation starring Schwartzman. The script will center on Arthur Fidelman, a hapless art student who travels to Rome in the mid-twentieth century. Sounds about right for Schwartzman, he being the poster-child for privileged melancholia. While Ames is best known for his work as creator and writer of "Bored To Death," which was based on his own short story and used his namesake as its lead, Schwartzman has not often written for the screen. His only...
- 1/29/2013
- by Tess Hofmann
- The Playlist
It was recently announced that HBO has given Bored To Death creator Jonathan Ames the go-ahead to start working on a telefilm screenplay based on his acclaimed-yet-cancelled series, but that's not the only project that he's currently working on with star Jason Schwartzman. The friends have now also picked up the rights to Bernard Malamud's short story collection Pictures of Fidelman and are planning to adapt it as a feature. Described by The Hollywood Reporter as a "1950s Rome-set comedy," the story follows the titular protagonist Arthur Fidelman, who is "a hapless art student" who decides to go on a trip to Italy. Schwartzman and Ames will reportedly focus the film on the stories "Still Life" and "Naked Nude," but the trade doesn't get into any detail regarding what those individual plots are about and mentions that details from other stories could find their way in as well. Schwartzman...
- 1/25/2013
- cinemablend.com
The Hollywood Reporter writes that in addition to the potential Bored to Death feature, Jonathan Ames and Jason Schwartzman will be working together on another project. Together, the two men intend to adapt Bernard Malamud's collection of short stories Pictures of Fidelman into a movie. The collection centers on Arthur Fidelman, a Jewish art student from the Bronx who travels to Italy with hopes of becoming a painter. Schwartzman would play Fidelman. The two are still looking for financing, but come on, rich people — how can you say no to those faces?...
- 1/25/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
A Bored to Death movie isn't the only project on which Jonathan Ames and Jason Schwartzman are collaborating. Ames made Schwartzman the star of his 2009-11 HBO comedy, which might receive a second go-round as a telefilm. Now close friends, the two have optioned Pictures of Fidelman, Bernard Malamud's collection of short stories, and will adapt it as the basis for a movie. The stories detail the adventures of Arthur Fidelman, a hapless art student who travels to Rome in the mid-20th century. The film largely would be drawn from two stories, "Still Life" and "Naked Nude,
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- 1/24/2013
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again.” – Field Of Dreams.
No truer words were ever spoken about America’s Pastime. Baseball began this past Spring with 30 teams vying for the chance to become World Champions and now it’s been decided. The San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers will play ball in the 2012 World Series. Before the final hurrah of nine innings, stats, bases and 3 strikes you’re out, Wamg has compiled a list of the Best Baseball Movies. Did we leave any in the dugout or are there some that should be sent to the showers?...
No truer words were ever spoken about America’s Pastime. Baseball began this past Spring with 30 teams vying for the chance to become World Champions and now it’s been decided. The San Francisco Giants and Detroit Tigers will play ball in the 2012 World Series. Before the final hurrah of nine innings, stats, bases and 3 strikes you’re out, Wamg has compiled a list of the Best Baseball Movies. Did we leave any in the dugout or are there some that should be sent to the showers?...
- 10/23/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The episode title, "At The Codfish Ball," is a Shirley Temple song from the 1936 movie Captain January (video below) about all the different fish "from the herring to the whale" going down to a jamboree, at the bottom of the sea. In their own jamboree, old and new characters come together for multiple gatherings of fish: Megan cooks Dover sole, they eat fish at the Heinz dinner, Stan finished the shrimp in the office, and Sally picks at her fish at the American Cancer Society dinner aka the Codfish Ball. Unlike the intimacy of the past few, this episode zooms out to show us a wider view, bringing in a great crew: my favorite characters Glen and Mona, Peggy's mother (who's great I just like her less), and Megan's communist and sexpot French parents Dr. Emile and Marie Calvet. Let's party.
Megan's parents and Don's kids are staying at the Draper lovenest.
Megan's parents and Don's kids are staying at the Draper lovenest.
- 5/1/2012
- by Samantha Zalaznick
- Aol TV.
The episode title, "At The Codfish Ball," is a Shirley Temple song from the 1936 movie Captain January (video below) about all the different fish "from the herring to the whale" going down to a jamboree, at the bottom of the sea. In their own jamboree, old and new characters come together for multiple gatherings of fish: Megan cooks Dover sole, they eat fish at the Heinz dinner, Stan finished the shrimp in the office, and Sally picks at her fish at the American Cancer Society dinner aka the Codfish Ball. Unlike the intimacy of the past few, this episode zooms out to show us a wider view, bringing in a great crew: my favorite characters Glen and Mona, Peggy's mother (who's great I just like her less), and Megan's communist and sexpot French parents Dr. Emile and Marie Calvet. Let's party.
Megan's parents and Don's kids are staying at the Draper lovenest.
Megan's parents and Don's kids are staying at the Draper lovenest.
- 5/1/2012
- by Samantha Zalaznick
- Aol TV.
On Sunday's (April 29) upcoming episode of "Mad Men" -- titled "At the Codfish Ball" -- Don Draper (Jon Hamm) takes a break from his usual wardrobe of sharp suits to lounge in his pajamas and catch up on some light reading. Meanwhile, new wife Megan Draper (Jessica Paré) is opting to stick close to the TV.
So what does Don read in his spare time? In the picture, he's holding a copy of Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel, "The Fixer." The book -- about "a man who finds himself a stranger in his community and a victim of irrational prejudice as a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria engulfs a town after the murder of a boy" -- won that year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction and The National Book Award.
From the Wikipedia book synopsis: "[The main character] finally finds it in his heart to forgive his former wife, who left him just before the novel began.
So what does Don read in his spare time? In the picture, he's holding a copy of Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel, "The Fixer." The book -- about "a man who finds himself a stranger in his community and a victim of irrational prejudice as a wave of anti-Semitic hysteria engulfs a town after the murder of a boy" -- won that year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction and The National Book Award.
From the Wikipedia book synopsis: "[The main character] finally finds it in his heart to forgive his former wife, who left him just before the novel began.
- 4/27/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
One of the doctors I’ve worked with once asked me “What’s it like to be a writer?”
I guarantee that every single one of the columnists here at ComicMix has been asked that question, or a form of it, quadrillions of times.
The mother of one of my daughter’s friends: “Where do you get your ideas?”
A co-worker at my day job: “So what do you do? They give you the comic and you put the words in those balloons?”
An old boyfriend: “You get paid for that?”
My mother on the phone, back when I was a full-time freelancer: “What do you do all day? How can you sit in your pajamas until 3:00 in the afternoon?
Mom on the phone again: “I’m sorry to bother you. Are you typing?”
The answers:
“What’s it like to be a doctor?” (Cracking wise.)
“I don’t know.
I guarantee that every single one of the columnists here at ComicMix has been asked that question, or a form of it, quadrillions of times.
The mother of one of my daughter’s friends: “Where do you get your ideas?”
A co-worker at my day job: “So what do you do? They give you the comic and you put the words in those balloons?”
An old boyfriend: “You get paid for that?”
My mother on the phone, back when I was a full-time freelancer: “What do you do all day? How can you sit in your pajamas until 3:00 in the afternoon?
Mom on the phone again: “I’m sorry to bother you. Are you typing?”
The answers:
“What’s it like to be a doctor?” (Cracking wise.)
“I don’t know.
- 12/5/2011
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
In honor of Moneyball's success, as well as the stirring 2011 Major League Baseball playoffs, Movie Fanatic has decided to anoint the Top 10 Baseball Movies of all Time. Many times, the drama on the field of the Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series provide drama Hollywood could never recreate, but here still are pieces of celluloid that capture the power and prominence baseball has over our culture.
10. Field of Dreams
Kevin Costner clearly has a passion for baseball given the films he’s made -- Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game and Bull Durham -- but his focus on the past in Field of Dreams is what makes it so endearing. So few times in current society do we pay respect to the past. Field of Dreams isn’t simply a reminder of the greatness of baseball’s past, it reminds us that the lives we...
10. Field of Dreams
Kevin Costner clearly has a passion for baseball given the films he’s made -- Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game and Bull Durham -- but his focus on the past in Field of Dreams is what makes it so endearing. So few times in current society do we pay respect to the past. Field of Dreams isn’t simply a reminder of the greatness of baseball’s past, it reminds us that the lives we...
- 10/10/2011
- by joel.amos@moviefanatic.com (Joel D Amos)
- Reel Movie News
Moneyball is one of the year's most anticipated films and it will be hitting theaters this Friday. Starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who lead a team of castoffs to the American League playoffs back in 2003, the film is based on Michael Lewis' ("The Blind Side") bestselling book of the same name, and has been mentioned for awards season kudos.
The film debuted in Toronto at the beginning of this month where it didn't cement it as the Oscar frontrunner, but it didn't knock it out of contention either. Most of the reviews coming out of the festival were positive to glowing including Brad's take on the film (read that here) when he saw it on the first day of the fest.
Hollywood hasn't made that many baseball movies over the years but the ones they have made have often been terrific. Here,...
The film debuted in Toronto at the beginning of this month where it didn't cement it as the Oscar frontrunner, but it didn't knock it out of contention either. Most of the reviews coming out of the festival were positive to glowing including Brad's take on the film (read that here) when he saw it on the first day of the fest.
Hollywood hasn't made that many baseball movies over the years but the ones they have made have often been terrific. Here,...
- 9/19/2011
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
Is there a more literary game than baseball? Novelist Joseph Finder hails an entertaining new companion to America's favorite pastime.
The writer George Plimpton once proposed what he called the Small Ball Theory of sports writing: the smaller the ball, the better the literature. Football and soccer and basketball have yielded a few decent books, he pointed out, whereas baseball has inspired fine literary work by such authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, David Halberstam, Ring Lardner, Walt Whitman . . .
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
Until the great ping-pong bildungsroman comes along, I'm dubious about Plimpton's theory. Yet there's no doubt that baseball has spawned a greater quantity of books, fiction and nonfiction, than any other sport. The latest of these is The Cambridge Companion to Baseball edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge-which, if you buy only one book for the baseball fan in your life,...
The writer George Plimpton once proposed what he called the Small Ball Theory of sports writing: the smaller the ball, the better the literature. Football and soccer and basketball have yielded a few decent books, he pointed out, whereas baseball has inspired fine literary work by such authors as Philip Roth, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, David Halberstam, Ring Lardner, Walt Whitman . . .
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Beginning of History
Until the great ping-pong bildungsroman comes along, I'm dubious about Plimpton's theory. Yet there's no doubt that baseball has spawned a greater quantity of books, fiction and nonfiction, than any other sport. The latest of these is The Cambridge Companion to Baseball edited by Leonard Cassuto and Stephen Partridge-which, if you buy only one book for the baseball fan in your life,...
- 4/22/2011
- by Joseph Finder
- The Daily Beast
The Fixer (1968) Direction: John Frankenheimer Cast: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm, David Opatoshu, David Warner, Carol White Screenplay: Dalton Trumbo; from Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel Oscar Movies Alan Bates, Ian Holm (background), Dirk Bogarde, The Fixer In 1969, director John Frankenheimer declared that he felt "better about The Fixer than anything I've ever done in my life." Considering Frankenheimer's previous output — Seven Days in May, the much admired The Manchurian Candidate — it is hard to believe that the director was being anything but a good PR man for his latest release. Adapted from Bernard Malamud's National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (which itself was based on the real story of Jewish bricklayer Mendel Beiliss), The Fixer is an overlong, overblown, and overwrought contrivance that, albeit well meaning, carelessly misuses most of the talent involved while sadistically abusing the patience (and at...
- 2/6/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Turtle Shell Productions present The World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning author Bernard Malamud's The Assistant, directed by Elfin Vogel and adapted for the stage by Martin Zuckerman. This new play tells a story of the colorful richness and depth of man's moral struggle through the trials of Morris Bober, a deli owner in 1940's Brooklyn as he humbly and steadfastly lives a loving, virtuous life amidst profound personal and economic challenges.
- 3/31/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Like their counterparts nationwide, the ethnically specific theatres of the San Francisco Bay Area are trying to ride out the economic downturn. But such theatres also face special challenges: to stage work that "serves as a bridge to other cultures," as Traveling Jewish Theatre artistic director Aaron Davidman puts it; to find enough actors of the appropriate ethnicity; and to cultivate diverse audiences. While more-mainstream theatres may grapple with the same issues, for companies dedicated to exploring a particular culture and working largely with artists from that culture, they're ever-present. The culturally and aesthetically diverse Bay Area theatre scene is also well-known for its spirit of cooperation -- fostered in large part by the local service organization Theatre Bay Area -- and some theatres co-produce with other companies regularly, sharing costs, talent, and audiences. The area's growing number of ethnic theatres ranges from midsize companies that produce a full season...
- 3/13/2009
- by Jean Schiffman
- backstage.com
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Jccsf) and Traveling Jewish Theatre (Tjt) are pleased to announce a new mutually beneficial partnership. As a pivotal center for Jewish life and culture in the Bay Area, the Jccsf joins forces with Tjt at a time when this treasured Bay Area arts company most needed support. "The Jccsf is delighted to help Tjt recover from the financial hardship that almost forced closure of the company last spring," stated Carole Zawatsky, Associate Director for Arts, Ideas and Jewish Life at the Jccsf. "We are so pleased that our new partnership has assisted the company in receiving community support, and it will enhance both organizations' public profile, accessibility and reach." As part of the partnership, Jccsf has included a Tjt's production of 2XMalamud: The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel in its' Arts and Ideas program. The production brings Bernard Malamud's most celebrated stories...
- 1/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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