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Why Indians love sports films
In the closing minutes of “Dangal” (“Wrestling Bout”), the protagonist, a doughty 22 year-old female wrestler from rural India, triumphs in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. As she accepts the gold medal on the podium and the national anthem is played, film audiences across India have stood up from their seats in standing ovations. Estimates place the domestic box-office takings at around $60m; the biopic has smashed all box office records to become the highest-grossing movie in the history of Bollywood. Most of the country’s prominent athletes have been immortalised in film. M.S. Dhoni’s “Untold Story” was told last year. Mary Kom, the country’s first female boxer to win a medal, was played by Priyanka Chopra in 2014. In 2012, “Paan Singh Tomar” traced the story of a steeple-chase champion turned bandit. A recurring theme in these films is the state governments’ lack of money for sport due to squeezed budgets or graft; when athletes prevail, they do so thanks to their own unyielding resolve. In “Dangal”, the protagonist and her sister are trained on mattresses and in mud-pits rather than synthetic mats and wrestling arenas. It reflects the lack of national sporting infrastructure. In the 1948 Olympics, India’s football team played barefoot. Deepa Karmakar, a gymnast, honed her craft on rudimentary equipment that included locally-made parallel bars that were uneven and the wrong size. It makes it all the more impressive that she finished fourth at last year’s Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. These films often distract audiences from recent underwhelming performances by hearkening back to a more successful period. Field hockey, once considered India’s national sport, is...Cord-Cutters: How to Live Stream the Super Bowl
Cord-cutting sports fans who can’t fathom missing Super Bowl LI on Sunday can stream the game live via the FoxSportsGo app without having to enter pay TV credentials. The Fox streaming platform supports iOS, Android, Windows, and Amazon tablets as well as connected devices, including Apple TV, Roku, Android TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, and Xbox One. “As part of the buildup to this year’s Super Bowl, we’re committed to creating the best possible experience for fans by dramatically expanding the ways and places in which they can watch the game,” said Fox Sports president Eric Shanks. Links to download the free Fox Sports Go app are available at FoxSports.com....Great sports scenes in film
Most of these are available to view online but for copyright reasons we have included only the official trailers. It is obviously very much a subjective evaluation so please feel free to nominate your own favourites in either category in the comments section. 1. Strangers on a Train Tennis could have been peripheral to the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, deployed solely to define the essential wholesomeness of Farley Granger’s conflicted Guy Haines to contrast with the immoral, manipulative, ultimately psychotic charm of Robert Walker’s Bruno Antony. And yet it plays an integral role in this beguiling thriller’s climax, making Haines’ anxiety infectious to the audience as he scurries desperately to win a tennis match at Forest Hills in time to thwart Antony framing him for the murder of Haines’ wife. Hitchcock combines long shots from Davis Cup matches between USA and Australia with close-ups, alternating between the viewpoints of Haines and his opponent. This is cross-cut with scenes of Antony’s frustrations and delays en route to the murder scene where he intends to plant the incriminating evidence. Trailer – https://goo.gl/zKqWbW 2. Raging Bull If the entire film sometimes feels like an oxymoronic fusion of grace and barbarity, no scene exemplifies it more than the ‘Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre’, the culmination of the sixth fight between Jake La Motta and Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. When the bell signals the start of the 13th round Robert De Niro’s La Motta is subjected to a fearsome onslaught. Johnny Barnes, as Robinson, pulverises his face with savagely quick combinations until exhaustion congeals both men to a standstill. For a few...‘Ruin and Rose’ extreme ski film to premiere at Palace Danbury
“Ruin and Rose,” a feature-length movie that takes extreme skiing to new heights, will be screened at the Palace Danbury. The film is much more than a series of breathtaking maneuvers — it’s also an imaginative tale about a world without snow, which offers a message for the future. Zack Giffin, who lives in Colorado, is among the movie’s all-star cast of skiers. “Every stunt you see is 100 percent real,” he said, referring to sand skiing and snow skiing in no-fall zones, where if you slip up, it’s all over. “When you’re out on a glacier, you don’t have a helicopter right there that can whisk you away to a hospital,” he said. “We try to find the line where you’re right on the verge of catastrophe.” Saturday’s screening will be the Connecticut premiere of “Ruin and Rose.” Giffin said the title refers to the movie’s essence: “a planet ruined, and the spirit of humanity overcoming that, and finding beauty in the ashes.” Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Ben Sturgulewski, the movie was created by Matchstick Productions, a Colorado company known for its incredible ski flicks. They are filmed everywhere, from France and the Swiss Alps to the African deserts of Namibia. Unlike other ski films, “Ruin and Rose” begins not in the snow, but on the edge of an endless desert where a group of children survives on their own. When a young boy unearths an ancient relic, hinting at the lost wonders of winter, he sets off to find the ghosts who once called the mountains their home. “I have lived my life immersed in...