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...JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season shows what the passing of 24 years can do to men who must have been something like those in Diner. In 1957, near the time that Diner's heroes talked, fought and married, a group of Scranton, Pa. high school students won the state basketball championship. Each year, four teammates hold a reunion with their former coach and attempt to recreate the hopeful, confident, if also innocent atmosphere of their high school days...
Coaching Failure THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Directed and Written by Jason Miller...
...provided by the interaction of good performers working their way down court, passing some pretty fast and artful dialogue around between them. But in adapting his Pulitzer-prizewinning play about a high school basketball team's 24th reunion with the coach under whom it won the state title, Jason Miller is fouled by the imperatives of the film medium. The intimacy of the tight shot tends to expose the characters' sad life stories, since the big win is a tissue of clichés. Miller's busy direction keeps isolating each player, breaking up the dazzling...
...Stephen C Blacklow '83 of Leverett House. Jonathan Cedarbaum '83 of Currier House. Lawrence M Cohen '83 of Currier House. Gregory A Dumanian '83 of Kirk land House. Peter A. Fleischer '83 of Lowell House. Sung Bin Im '83 of Eliot house. Alan Kent Jones '83 of Quincy House. Jason Dreyfun Kahn '83 of North House. Kenneth C Keeler '83 of Leverett House. Michael J Larsen '83 of Quincy House. Paul Poh-Yen Lin '83 of Mather House. John Scott Martin '83 of Winthrop House. Peter S Nickerson '83 of Dudley House. Laurence Eric Penn '83 of Dunstern House. Jonathan...
...alternatives, he says, "I live my life and I end my life with this project." Throughout the four years spent on the film, a continuous series of problems plagued Herzog's efforts. Once he and his crew were forced to flee camp for their lives; later original actors Jason Robards and Mick Jagger pulled out, the former because of ill health, the latter for other commitments. Herzog had to start from scratch with a new lead, Klaus Kinski, while writing out Jagger's obviously irreplaceable part...