My profound apologies to the producers of the documentary "Football Under Cover," which is about German women's soccer players who go to Tehran to help their Iranian counterparts play the game they love.
It sounds good. But it was the only one of the 12 films in the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival I did not see over the past week.
I am now going to offer mini-reviews of the other 11, most of which can be seen at the AMC 19th Street Saturday. (This is another part of our first anniversary gala, because the third WatchDog post ever included reviews of last year's festival films.)
For ticket availability and screening times, go to the festival's official Web site.
It is difficult to predict when or if these films will make it to a theater or TV screen near you. Several of the movies I saw last year are just coming out now.
None of the 11 (eight of them docus) is bad, or it would not be in the festival at all. But my favorite was "Gotta Dance," a delightful movie about the Nets' senior dance team.
My view might have been colored by the fact I inadvertently sat among the dancers themselves, and that they performed afterward, and that the screening received a standing ovation.
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Speaking of Soccer. Congrats to Chelsea facing Man U in the UEFA Cup.
The Giants shall be rooting for the club that let them practice on their ground for that game in London.
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Interesting that game matched up a Super Bowl Champion and arguably the worst team of the modern era. So where did the Dolphins practice. Man City?
Holy SAMMIE SOSA!!!!!
Corking bats in baseball.......
Is wearing a metal plate under the burhka the "added edge" in Muslim Women's Soccer???
Checkout the perfectly edged Darth Vader Dome on the one in white.
"Checkout the perfectly edged Darth Vader Dome on the one in white."
The one wearing the white UNIFORM.
(The uniform that looks like a recycled plant engineer's garb from the nuclear power plant that doesn't exist 40 miles northwest of Teheran).