The filmmakers behind the 1994 documentary hoop dreamsand one of the subjects of the filmtalked about the impact of the movie at a recent screening. Hoop dreams tells the remarkable true story of two american dreamers plucked from poverty and given the opportunity to attend a suburban prep school and play for a legendary high school basketball. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hoop dreams 2. One of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of all time, hoop dreams is a rich, complex, heartbreaking, and ultimately deeply rewarding film that uses high. Two ordinary innercity kids dare to dream the impossible professional basketball glory in this epic chronicle of hope and faith.
A hoop dreams sequel, written by gun violence the new. Hoop dreams basketball alumni includes boys and girls that have competed at varying levels of ncaa, naia, and junior college basketball. Gates and agee dream of nba stardom, and with the support of their closeknit families, they battle the social and physical. An extraordinary true story this documentary follows two innercity chicago residents, arthur agee and william gates, as they follow their dreams of becoming basketball superstars. Beginning at the start of their high school years, and ending almost 5 years later, as they start college, we watch the boys mature into men, still retaining their hoop. Good basketball sub, nothing to it press j to jump to the feed. Every school day, africanamerican teenagers william gates and arthur agee travel 90 minutes each way from innercity chicago to st.
When the critically acclaimed hoop dreams premiered at the new york film festival last year, william gates was flabbergasted at the outpouring of emotion it elicited from the largely white audience. The film has been called the best sports documentary ever, and consistently is rated in top 20 best ever lists. Hoop dreams 1994 has the form of a sports documentary, but along the way it becomes a revealing and heartbreaking story about life in america. The dissolve oral histories dig up the stories behind the filmmaking scenes by talking to those who were there. Rent hoop dreams 1994 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Find out where hoop dreams is streaming, if hoop dreams is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider.
The films themes of hope, pain and redemption, its creeping sense that the deck is just stacked against some kids those are even more. Hoop dreams is, on one level, a documentary about two africanamerican kids named william gates and arthur agee, from chicagos inner city, who are gifted basketball players and dream of someday starring in the nba. Lives forever changed the costars of hoop dreams didnt make it to the nba, but thats no tragedy by l. And despite being famously snubbed by the oscar committee, it is the most successful and critically acclaimed documentary in american history, roger ebert wrote in 1995 obviously prior to michael moores blockbusters. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A hoop dreams sequel, written by gun violence shawn harrington, who appeared in the 1994 documentary hoop dreams and later became a high school assistant basketball coach, was shot in. Finally, the hoop dreams script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the steve james basketball movie about arthur agee and william gates. Hoop dreams screens in a newly restored digital master.
Jon wertheim leading off a historic benchmark tim isaac is the first to benchpress 800 pounds. It likely would have won had it been nominated, and it ranks right up there among some of the best documentaries of all time. Watch hoop dreams online stream full movie directv. Kaufen sie hoop dreams the criterion collection gunstig ein. Im doing a hoop dreams clothing line, im running the arthur agee role model foundation, i do a hoop dreams curriculum and show the movie across the country to different schools. Arthur agee has called hoop dreams both a blessing and a curse in interviews. Joseph together, both work extremely hard to pay off their tuition, and william, whos family is a little better of than. Desi hoop dreams focuses on south asianonly basketball leagues common in most major u. On another level, it is about much larger subjects. Hoop dreams is a 1994 american documentary film directed and produced by steve james. One of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of all time, hoop dreams is a rich, complex, heartbreaking, and ultimately deeply rewarding film that uses high school hoops as a jumpingoff point to explore issues of race, class, and education in modern america.
It is one of the highest grossing nonmusical documentaries in united states. If you work hard enough, you can do anything, no matter who you are, or where you come from. Deutsch espanol francais bahasa indonesia italiano. It follows the story of two africanamerican high school students in chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball players. Hoop dreams made a big splash when it was released in 1994, and there was a big controversy around academy award time when it was deemed ineligible in the best documentary category. Storyline genres documentary short details release date. With william gates, arthur agee, emma gates, curtis gates. In 1995, director steve james of hoop dreams returned to rural southern illinois to reconnect with stevie fielding, a troubled young boy to whom. To provide quality basketball instructions for boys and girls of all ages and abilities by inspiring them to pursue their dreams of becoming basketball players. Roger ebert and gene siskel both named hoop dreams as their best film of 1994. Our mission is teaching children how to live a healthy lifestyle through recreation, while learning how to be leaders, growing emotionally and socially through peer interaction. Im referring to the 1994 critically acclaimed documentary, titled hoop dreams. Hoop dreams is now available in bluray and dvd special editions from the criterion collection. Hoop dreams is a 1994 american documentary film directed and produced by steve james, frederick marx, and peter gilbert, with kartemquin films.
Heres the opening for the 1995 vhs of hoop dreams and heres the order. Hoop dreams in our writers favourite films series, christian bennett explains why the story of two teenagers aiming to make it big in basketball is a. Have questions about an upcoming youth basketball training program in lexington. With the 20th anniversary of the film, its not like one of us is in jailit turned out great for me. When the filmmakers began, they planned to make a 30minute film about eighthgraders being recruited from innercity playgrounds to play for suburban schools. Hoop dreams is 20 years old this year, but its eternal. With james brown, arthur agee, william gates, peter gilbert. First exhibited at the 1994 sundance film festival, where it won the audience award for best documentary, kartemquins hoop dreams is the remarkable true story of two american dreamers. Long before our televisions got filled with reality shows, and even a little before film documentaries were a popular option on home video and in theaters around the world, there was hoop dreams a look at the lives of two upandcoming high school kids with hopes of making it all the way to the nba. He has since then become one of the most acclaimed documentary makers of his generation, with noted works being stevie, the new americans, the war tapes, at the death house door, the interrupters, life itself, and most.
However, it was not even nominated for an academy award. An oral history of hoop dreams, 20 years after its premiere twenty years after the film premiered at sundance and was awarded the festivals audience award, its grown into an iconic work. Hoop dreams has been running basketball events in the north jersey area since 1994. Over 15 years ago a wonderful sports movie debuted. Qualifizierte bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections. Hoop dreams provides a highquality, playerfocused approach to youth basketball training, coaching and fundamental development. Filmed over a fiveyear period, hoop dreams follows young arthur agee and william gates as they navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while striving to overcome the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their chicago. It picks up everything happening in the gym, in the stands and even outside. Rent hoop dreams 1994 starring william gates and arthur agee on dvd and bluray. In its unflinching portrait of innercity life, hoop dreams is as much a social commentary on class privilege and race division as it is a film about basketball and presents the audience with a lasting deconstruction of the american dream. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of hoop dreams. Watching some of the intense personal moments captured in hoop dreams, im always aware that there must be a camera in the room, and i ask myself how all the participants agreed to be filmed in such circumstances. It comes up frequently in conversation with other documentary filmmakers.
Our passion is to see our players thrive and develop both on and off the court. There ought to be some information here about the making of the film. Hoop dreams ist ein dokumentarfilm des usamerikanischen regisseurs steve james. In 1994, the iconic film became a benchmark for documentary filmmaking and the godfather of the sports doc genre. Arthur agee 22 and william gates 23 from the award winning documentary film hoop dreams, shared a common goal of aspiring to play professional basketball in the nba.
He was named a chicago tribune artist of the year for 1994, a 1995 guggenheim fellow, and a recipient of a robert f. Release dates 2 also known as aka 3 release dates usa 15 november 1995. Also known as aka original title hoop dreams reunion. Various hoop dreams original motion picture soundtrack. Hoop dreams script transcript from the screenplay andor.
Founded by entrepreneur mike scott, a devoted and experienced basketball enthusiast, hoop dreams offers various programs focused on. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Frederick marx achieved international fame for a film he cowrote hoop dreams with steve james the director of the film. A film following the lives of two innercity chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball.
Hoop dreams the best youth basketball training programs. An oral history of hoop dreams, 20 years after its. Due to the outcry when hoop dreams failed to receive a nomination for best documentary from the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in 1995, the academy changed the procedures by which such films would be nominated in the future. Joseph high school in westchester, illinois, a predominately white suburban school wellknown for the excellence of its basketball program. Steve james affiliation with kartemquin began in 1987 with the start of production of hoop dreams, for which he served as director, producer, and coeditor. Coach mike stone is the director and all basketball events are coordinated by an experienced and enthusiastic team of teachers and coaches.
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