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Issue 116: Sports

February 2023

Robert Redford and Gene Hackman in Downhill Racer (1969) | Art by Gary Mills

The Fastest Racer Always Wins

Liz Robau·
Issue 116: Sports
Less parable, more portrait of an athlete as a young man, Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer reminds us that our yearning for a moral arc of sport is just that: a yearning.
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Games Women Must Play: Jafar Panahi’s Offside

Sucheta Chakraborty·
Issue 116: Sports
In Offside, football is both a metaphor for social discrimination and a medium of protest. By the end, it's also a means of a miraculous escape. 
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The Skater’s Guide to Girlhood

Natalie Marlin·
Issue 116: Sports
Skate Kitchen acts as a celebration of all the ways non-normative womanhood seeps into the very nature of skateboarding.
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Ballet as Sport in Billy Elliot

Emma Fergusson·
Issue 116: Sports
Billy Elliot isn’t about a boy becoming a dancer, but rather a boy becoming himself.
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Grandparents Falling Out of the Sky

Kellie Herson·
Issue 116: Sports
Self-reflective and willing to laugh at himself, Tony Hawk is not just iconic but eminently watchable, endearing, and incisive in equal measure.
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Escaping the Judge: The Phenom (2016) 

Catríona Mitchel·
Issue 116: Sports
The Phenom is a sports film for people, like me, who don’t enjoy sports films.
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“Aren’t We Going to Play Anymore?”

Adam Hebert·
Issue 116: Sports
Firmly in his prime at the age of 28, Bobby Jones retired from golf and did what any self-respecting ex-athlete would do: he went to Hollywood.
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Episode #22: Moneyball (2011)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 116: SportsPodcast
On the latest episode of the podcast, we’re joined by ace writer and admitted baseball enthusiast Frank Falisi to run the numbers on Bennett Miller’s Oscar-nominated ode to analytics, Moneyball (2011).
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A Chip and a Chair

Zach D'Amico·
Issue 116: Sports
On three great movies about gamblers: Jacques Demy’s Bay of Angels, Robert Altman’s California Split, and Ryan Fleck’s Mississippi Grind.
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