| 4:00 p.m. | Brooklyn Stories Jos de Putter (Netherlands, 2002) |
Just in time for Brooklyn's recent battle for a new sports team, Brooklyn Stories looks back on the borough's last, the immortal Brooklyn Dodgers. A musician, a dock worker, a homeless man: this assortment of yarn-spinning old-timers traipse around modern Brooklyn while recounting their favorite Dodgers tales, whether of Jackie Robinson or a hard-throwing pitcher, a last-minute loss or another last-minute loss. Brooklyn Stories may have sport as its subject, but its true subject is the art, and sport, of storytelling.
—Jason Sanders
• Photographed by Marc Homs. (54 mins, Color, Beta, From Zeppers Film)
Preceded by:
Solo, Law of the Favela
Jos de Putter (The Netherlands, 1994)
1994: the World Cup is playing to an audience of billions, but de Putter heads to the slums of Rio de Janeiro, to follow the children whose only dream, and only escape, is sport. Twelve-year-old best friends Leonardo and Anselmo hope to leave their reality of poverty and violence by playing soccer. When a scout for a professional club appears, their hopes seem answered, until only one is offered a contract. Solo is fascinating for its insights into the hope that sports offer to youth, and how it's taken away.
Photographed by Brian Sewell. (55 mins, In Portuguese with English subtitles, Color, 16mm, From VPRO)
(Total running time: 109 mins)
