“Without Bias”: A hoop dream dies
November 4th, 2009
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Len BiasSome quick thoughts on the latest “30 for 30″ documentary coming right up…
In a way, these “30 for 30″ films are almost idiot-proof. The stories that have been chosen have, so far, been so inherently interesting that it almost doesn’t matter how the filmmakers have chosen to tell them. I didn’t really love Mike Tollin’s take on the USFL, but then a lot of you commented that you were just happy to see all that footage.
Kirk Fraser’s “Without Bias” feels like another example of that phenomenon. Fraser tries to stuff at least two hours of movie into a 50-minute bag, the end result being a film that jumps around too much among too many sub-stories, and that has to be guided by too many talking heads… Read more…
