Is there any worldwide event more compelling than the Olympics? We doubt it. Maybe that's why so many films have been made about the trials and triumphs of athletes competing in the summer and winter Games. Usually based on the lives of real people with extraordinary skills and discipline, Olympic movies of all varieties are nearly impossible to resist. Join us as we run the gamut of Olympic cinema with recommendations that include documentaries, Academy Award-winning feature films, and deliciously watchable made-for-tv movies. Next stop, Sochi in 2014! Nadia (1984) Dir. Alan Cooke Don't let anyone's reputation intimidate you. All it means is that they used to be good; they must prove that they still are. With many excellent made-for-tv movies about Olympic athletes to choose from (Wilma, Breaking the Surface, etc), Nadia, based on the experiences of Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian gymnast who scored seven perfect '10s' at the...
- 8/2/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Irish film maker Alan Cooke has won the NY Emmy for Best Writing for his documentary 'Home' at the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Awards at the weekend. Home' had received an additional two Emmy nominations at the awards for Best Documentary (Producers Dawn Scibilia and Alan Cooke) and Best Photography (Dawn Scibilia). The doc is a reflection on Alan Cookes immigration to New York. Surrounding questions of the concept of home, it features interviews with Liam Neeson, Susan Sarandon, Mike Myers, Alfred Molina, Colin Quinn, Rosie Perez, Pete Hamill, Fran Lebowitz, Frank and Malachy McCourt, Elaine Kaufman, Drew Nieporent, Vinny Vella and Armand Dimele. (Woody Allen appears in TV/Cable version only)...
- 3/31/2009
- IFTN
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