Hoop Dreams

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy take on 1994's groundbreaking high school basketball documentary Hoop Dreams! They compare the look of the film to slick modern docs, look at the subtle ways director Steve James contrasts his two subjects, and learn what stars Arthur and William are doing today. Plus: how Siskel & Ebert's advocacy for the film unveiled an Oscar scandal. Next week, we begin our discussion of films set in space with A Trip To The Moon, and start the conversation on which films should be part of the series! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1994 and two kids with dreams are about to learn an NBA reality.
0:07.0	The movie, Cook Dreams.
0:10.0	The year is 1994 and two kids with dreams are about to learn an NBA reality.
0:28.0	Hello everyone and welcome to UnSooled.
0:32.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:34.0	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we endeavor to find the hundred best films of all time.
0:39.0	Currently, we are in our True Life Sports mini series series and today is the listener pick.
0:46.0	And I have to say Amy, we talked about this last week.
0:49.0	It's an odd choice because we've been doing scripted films and for the very first time this show is doing a doc.
0:56.0	We are doing hoop dreams and it was very unexpected that this one shot to the top of the list.
1:02.0	Reality baby.
1:04.0	At first I was like, oh man, I was kind of hoping itaunty would pull out or money ball.
1:09.0	And then I thought, actually how genius is this?
1:12.0	Because all we've been talking about this entire series is the interplay between reality and life and making drama out of real life.
1:19.0	And what you have to change in a lot of these movies, what they decided they had to change to make a movie more dramatic.
1:23.0	And now here we just have a straight up doc that is as dramatic, if not perhaps more, than everything we've covered in this film.
1:30.0	What if reality at the end of the day wins over Hollywood?
1:34.0	Yeah, well I think the reason why we are so into sports films in general is because there's a sense that anything can happen in sports, right?
1:45.0	A major comeback, a loss, you know, the underdog can rise.
1:50.0	And I just was watching a Clipper game last night and within the last two minutes they came back from an 11 point deficit.
1:57.0	And it was so exciting to kind of be in that moment.
2:02.0	And I do feel like that is what brings us in in this movie today.
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