Cinema:
A PORTRAIT WITH FLUIDITY
Feb 07: Given the paucity of
festival appearances stateside for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait—which
premiered at Cannes in 2006—and as yet unformed plans for distribution,
group screenings in the U.S. will have to be undertaken with the heinous
benefit of DVD conversion software.
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Books:
HE'S IN THE PINK.)
Women:
LUZ Y VERDAD.)
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Cinema:
POOCH ON PITCH IN THIMPHU or of Kramer
interview .).)
Cinema:
GRASS CEILING.).).).).)
Women:
BENDING IT IN THE U.K..) or
Spanish versions.) 
Awards:
THE CULTURE CUP | COPPING AWARDS FOR PURPLE PROSE, ICELANDIC CHIC AND FISH GRAPHICS
Jul 06: Most of the technical awards have already been issued, so we turn to
the major categories in recognizing the best of World Cup coverage:
one of the top prizes, naturally, goes for the best musical homage
to a tonsured French footballer, aged 30 or over.
Cinema:
ONE WORLD CUP, OODLES OF WORLD CUP FILMS
Jun 06: Saving us from a lifetime of futile searching
on the Internet Movie Database, author Carlos Marañón has
provided lovers of football and cinema the essential resource: Fútbol y
cine, a glossy, scrupulously researched 340-page compilation that
surveys a trove of soccer films, some good, some pretty rubbish.
Islands:
BRIAN CHING, OAHU AND HOW HAWAI‘I GAINED
A SPOT AT THE WORLD CUP
Jun 06: U.S. international
Brian Ching has become the first from the 50th state
to make a World Cup roster. He describes his childhood in a North Shore
Oahu town as "amphibious," suggesting that he did not have
much time for another indigeneous sport, lava sledding (he‘e
holua). (Click for PDF file .)
TIME STOPS TICKING ON CLOCK END
May 06: The 93-year run of what many
consider the greatest stadium in England's Premiership ends on 7 May with
a 4–2 victory over Wigan Athletic. With the win, Arsenal Football Club pip Spurs to a final Champions League spot. In advance of the Champions League final with Barcelona, we share images from a January visit to north London, where we want to try the dressing-room urinals, but we do not dare. (Broadband connection required. 7MB download.)
London
diaries, part 2 | The sweet embrace
of the crowd |
Part 1 |
Looking for football and not finding it |
WWC
diaries, day 5 | What remains after the
boxed suppers areDay 4 |
Riding Marta to the final | Day 3 |
Paper chase | Day 2 |
A river runs through it | Day 1 |
Isabel's cleaning work, on the side | N.B.: All back issues in Adobe PDF format.
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