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Via: Rick Telander The Chicago Sun-Times: Via: Rick Telander The Chicago Sun-Times: The documentary Lenny Cooke Movie begins its run Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on Nov. 29 and is, in its way, nearly as powerful as the legendary gemstone Hoop Dreams which the late Roger Ebert called the best movie of the 1990s. To have mentioned both Siskel and Ebert in the same paragraph should let you know that I, at least, feel we have moved into seriously good film territory. ‘‘Lenny Cooke’’ is the anti- The Blind Side the film for which Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for playing the feel-good, hot white mama who took in the young, impoverished Michael Oher and steered him into the Baltimore Ravens starting lineup: suntimes/sports/23867996-419/telander-ugly-basketball-fall-caught-on-film-in-lenny-cooke.html
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:37:11 +0000

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