June 12th, 2009
Filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden weave this introspective sports drama concerning a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
June 10th, 2009
Genre: Sports Drama Directed by: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Starring: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Helen Higgins Anyone going into Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Sugar expecting just another uplifting sports tale isn't going to find it here...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
June 6th, 2009
Three years ago, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck made Half Nelson, a painfully honest movie, devoid of both triumphalism and self-pity, starring Ryan Gosling as an idealistic teacher fighting an addiction to drugs while transforming the lives of kids in an underprivileged area of Brooklyn...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
June 4th, 2009
Sugar is a revelation, ducking an onrush of cliche to expose the rags-to-riches mantra as a shining lie, says Xan Brooks Sporting dramas are two a penny, while sporting dramas about plucky, talented minority kids are arguably cheaper still...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
June 4th, 2009
The first time we see Miguel 'Sugar' Santos , a speed gun has him in its sights...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
May 14th, 2009
Algeniz Perez Soto plays Domincan baseball player Miguel "Sugar" Santos in Sugar...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
May 12th, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and visual beauty...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
May 7th, 2009
Algeniz Perez Soto, center, stars as a young Dominican baseball player hoping to get a shot at the major leagues in the touching drama Sugar...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
May 7th, 2009
Year Released: 2009 Directed By: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck Starring: Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli Co-writer/directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck shot to prominence with their affecting debut feature, the middle-class drug study Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling ...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 30th, 2009
On its surface, "Sugar" is a baseball film, and a good one. But it's also much more, a richly developed look at what is typically lumped under the title "American Dream," though for those pursuing it from the outside, it is of course a much more complex experience than that...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 23rd, 2009
"Sugar, " with Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Michael Gaston, Jaime Tirelli...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 22nd, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most clichd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting and visual beauty...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 16th, 2009
SUGAR directed and written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, with Algenis Prez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland and Michael Gaston...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 11th, 2009
With Sugar , writing-directing partners Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have pulled off the kind of miraculous trick Darren Aronofsky did last year with The Wrestler ...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 9th, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most cliched genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting and visual beauty...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 9th, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most clichd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and visual beauty...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 3rd, 2009
Sugar , the second film by the young writer-director duo Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, follows a promising baseball pitcher named Miguel - nicknamed Sugar - from his home in the Dominican Republic through a series of minor league teams in the U.S. This isn't The Natural , but rather a naturalistic view of the underside of professional baseball, where .....
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 3rd, 2009
Arriving with the upcoming baseball season is the drama "Sugar," a modest minor league recruitment story that profits from an exceptional perspective on the customs of the game both on and off the field...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
April 1st, 2009
Sugar Directed by Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden Runtime: 120 min. As the mainstreams media crucifies Yankee outfielder Alex Rodriguez, indie filmmakers Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's new film Sugar takes a sympathetic look at the life of a fictional baseball prodigy from the Dominican Republic - and crucifies him with kindness...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
March 31st, 2009
The talented team that brought us Half Nelson , Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are back again with Sugar -- a film about gifted baseball player Miguel , who is recruited from the Dominican Republic to play in America's minor leagues...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
March 18th, 2009
Reviewed by Katey Rich : 2009-03-18 10:00:51 Baseball has been held up for decades, maybe forever, as the embodiment of the American dream, and that idealism lives on today even in the face of steroid scandals and millionaire benchwarmers...
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI
February 16th, 2009
Half Nelson directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck find poetry in an immigrant baseball player's evolving relationship with the American Dream Is there an audience for gentle any more? Probably not, and more's the .....
Read the Full Article.
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post.
TrackBack URI