Frank Scheck “Everybody kept saying, ‘This should be a novel some day,’” he says.The book, which has been reissued under the title of the film, was well received, and one of the readers was an award-winning documentary film writer and director named Mary Mazzio – who also happened to be a former US Olympic rower. *EURweb sat down for an exclusive interview with Arshay Cooper, Marie Mazzio and 7 time NBA All-Star Grant Hill to discuss “A Most Beautiful Thing,” the “must see” documentary of 2020! This is not a “message film” in the conventional dry, hit-you-over-the-head sense of that phrase. It would be unfair to give you too many details of what is, simply put, a great movie. - As Cooper says, “When we were on the water, we were in a place where we could not hear the sound of sirens or bullets. (For those of you unfamiliar with rowing terms, this refers to when an oar is dipped too deep in the water and gets caught, sometimes so forcefully that the rower is ejected from the boat.)
Rather than appearing nationwide across the US in cinemas at the end of July, the film was made available for streaming. Mazzio, who is the film’s writer-producer-director, is an artful filmmaker, adept at the use of archival footage, aware of the need to provide a chillingly honest look at the dangers and death that shadow one of the city’s neighborhoods, surefooted with the time-traveling narrative and persuasive in getting her subjects to open up. The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. Find A Most Beautiful Thing showtimes for local movie theaters. One started a moving business, another became a licensed barber, and Cooper wrote a memoir. While no tickets have been released for sale yet, keep your eyes peeled and remember to wear a mask! 234 W 42nd Street New York, NY 10036. We thought it was powerful for them to see it with their own eyes.”You need to watch the film to see how they fared at the Chicago Sprints in July 2019, but the results actually don’t matter that much. But, hey: Cooper and his Manley High School teammates overcame much bigger setbacks over a 22-year period that begins with the founding of the rowing program and ends with a reunion – and a race that includes four unlikely teammates as members of their eight-man crew: Chicago police officers.“All of these people kind of knew we’d done this when we were younger,” Cooper says of the reunion, “but we wanted to give our families and our kids a chance to see us doing it. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, 'Not much of a break': Crews struggle with deadly wildfires racing through Northern California, wine country, National Coffee Day 2020: Get free drinks and deals Tuesday at Krispy Kreme, Starbucks, Dunkin', Panera and more. There’s history behind this.”Because the pandemic has closed theaters, the film has not gained the exposure that it might have, but A Most Beautiful Thing has achieved a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “How did I not know this?” Mazzio says.
“The message is even stronger,” Arshay Cooper, 38, a member of the rowing team, who hailed from Chicago’s tough West Side, and a focal point of the documentary, tells the Guardian. © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter Production company: 50 Eggs Films Earn 125 points on every ticket you buy. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Documentary.