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Tyler Haas
Our next few movies are a tribute to my favorite thing about spring: baseball (go Giants) and the WNBA (go Valkyries).
I have a very...specific relationship with sports, one rooted more in the ritual and experiential aspects of watching than the wins and losses and yell-at-the-people-on-TV of it all. It's why I love baseball, a sport that's at least 50% vibes-based. And it's why I'm a sucker for sports films, which strip away all the stats and records to find the emotions and melodrama that keep us coming back.
- Weds, May 20 @ 8:00 – Major League (1989) – David S. Ward
This Charlie Sheen-led screwball comedy has been a longtime blind spot for me, so I'm finally watching it. Have the jokes of the time aged like mild? Betting odds say yes! Come and find out in real time along with me.
- Tues, May 26 @ 8:00 – A League of Their Own (1992) – Penny Marshall
There are sadly few films about women in sports and even fewer made by women. Fortunately, we have this film and the next to make up the deficit. Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own is a classic that I've never gotten around to. Featuring an all star 90s cast (remember when Madonna was a movie star?!), it tells the semi-true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during its brief existence in the 1940s. I can't wait to finally see waht I've been missing.
- Fri, May 29 @ 7:00 – Love & Basketball (2000) – Gina Prince-Bythewood
The synopsis is right there in the title, folks. Gina Prince-Bythewood's masterpiece is the story of two people navigating their love for each other and their love for the game of basketball. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps star in this remarkably textured depiction of the joys and sorrows of a life spent striving for excellence at a craft. This is one of Ally's favorite movies and I'm so thankful she introduced me to it a few years back.