Scribbles and Ramblings

My past Movie World Cups were about finding films from the different countries taking part in the Soccer World Cup. The films themselves we...

 Take the Ball, Pass the Ball (2018, Spain, Duncan McMath)   Based on Graham Hunter’s book, Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the Wo...

All 32 nations have qualified for the 2014 World Cup. Therefore, it is time to officially start the 2014 Movie World Cup, a soccer related ...

Jacques Tati's last directed work was a football film! Tati directed Forza Bastia , a 26 minute documentary, in 1978 but the film only...

The Damned United (2009, UK/USA, Tom Hooper): 9/10 Just a few of the things a modern soccer manager has to satisfy: And even if all t...

Rudo y Cursi (2009, Mexico/USA, Carlos Cuarón) Ah. The beautiful game. It unites and can equally divide. Two brothers, one a goal ke...

17 cameras fixed on Zidane for the entire 90 minutes capturing his every movement. When I first heard about the idea for Douglas Gordon ...

I had been meaning to do a cinematic spotlight on Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden for a while now. I didn't have any prede...

Since I have been busy programming movies for other film festivals this year, it was appropriate that my birthday gift was a personal film f...