Reply With QuoteThe Arsenal Stadium Mystery. Charlie Bubbles.
In an attempt to draw the World Cup fever into the movie genre I wondered which films feature football either as the main subject matter or as a side plotline.
British movies Bend It Like Beckham, Gregory's Girl, When Saturday Comes, Fever Pitch and Escape to Victory immediately come to mind along with the more recent Incendiary starring Ewan McGregor and The Damned United.
I'm sure there are hundreds but which can you remember and what are your favourites?
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery. Charlie Bubbles.
I've just seen an ad with Ray Winstone which reminded me of There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2001), a great movie which I need to get on DVD.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre: Another Sunday and Sweet F.A (1972) (1972)
Written by Jack Rosenthal
Mr. Armistead (David Swift) is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Steve
The Goal! trilogy was a joint UK/USA venture (and a better one than the recent World Cup fixture) about a young Spaniard called Santiago who dreams of playing professional football but ends up playing for Newcastle instead. Well, you can't win them all.
The final scene where Santiago scores to win the game against Liverpool F.C. is the actual goal scored by Laurent Robert in real life. It is noticeable that Santiago, a right footed player throughout the movie, shoots with his left foot in this scene.
There was a *ground-breaking* movie of the 1966 World Cup called 'Goal'. It covered the whole tournament, not just the ubiquitous Final. It was ground-breaking because it was in colour and featured loads of close-ups and *thump/bump* sound effects as you watched boot on leather etc.name='GoggleboxUK' date='14 June 2010 - 09:07 PM' timestamp='1276546076' post='440067']The Goal! trilogy was a joint UK/USA venture (and a better one than the recent World Cup fixture) about a young Spaniard called Santiago who dreams of playing professional football but ends up playing for Newcastle instead. Well, you can't win them all.
I watched it on TV once and it was pretty tedious stuff, but I daresay the proper cinematic effect might have been better.
PS... it's here..... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goal-Officia.../dp/B00004CJ4V
Yesterday's Hero(1979)
Ian McShane, Adam Faith & Suzanne Somers in a Jackie Collins adaptation.
A Shot at Glory (2000)
Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton and Ally McCoist in small time Scottish League team rags to riches story. I'm in the crowd scenes as a lot were filmed at my beloved Palmerston, Home of Queen of The South.
BBC Play on One: THE GIFT (BBC Scotland, 1989) dir. Stanley Johnson
Cast includes Tommy Docherty as 'McIntyre', Jim Baxter (who died in 2001) as himself,
Clive Russell and Del Henney.
BFI database:
Play about two young footballers who are given a week's trial with the Glasgow City Football Team.
It is their first taste of professional football, but both the game and the city upset their expectations.
PS. I'm still looking for a copy.
THE SHOUTING MEN (2010) dir. Steve Kelly
'Latest Cinema Releases' (13/04/10)
Released on DVD after attracting only 477 viewers in 16 cinemas
Cup Fever (1965)
Those Glory Glory Days (1983)
Screen Two: The Firm (1989)
Historias de fútbol (1997)
The Match (1999)
Steve
Mike Bassett England Manager(2001) still makes me laugh at times....
And the sublime Brian Glover as the bullying PE teacher on the Barnsley school football pitch in Kes(1969) is one of my all time favourite scenes from any Brit Movie.
Can we include TV broadcasts? I'm sure my friend bruiser15 will recall the wonderful James Bolam in a very amusing little TV play called (I think) Eleven Men Against Eleven - from the 1990s IIRC, centring around the creeping rot of corruption seeping into the game even at local level - and one of the old school (Bolam's character) trapped in an impossibly nostalgic past. Quite brilliant, I would dearly love to see it again.
I.D.
Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to root out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between `job' and `yob' becomes more unclear as time passes.
Reece Dinsdale shows off some excellent acting skills as John, an undercover policeman getting involved in the world of football hooliganism.
Uncompromising, shocking and often violent, this is one of my favourite football movies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3cayRMnVb8
And its the Fair Haired Slightly Balding Charlton to Kick off.......
There was one of Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns - http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0686862/
Nick
"When Saturday Comes" 1996, Sean Bean is skilled amateur footballer who plays for his local pub team and then gets a trial game for Sheffield United, he gets totally wasted the night before the game at his local pub and consequently plays rubbish on the day. Moral of the story seems to be alcohol and football don't mix though Im sure there are many pro footballers who would contest that theory!
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Sean Connery narrating the beginning to end of "G'ole" (that's with a mark on the e which i can't find on the new Britmovie
The 1982 World Cup brought to the screens of the Classic Shaftesbury Avenue and Oxford Street-in those days-by Drummond Challis and Micheal Samuelson. Have got the adverts and reviews to post if anyone is seriously interested, but they're thumbnail size originally and don't have a scanner at present. (Box Brownie in the meantime)
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There was one of Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns - http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0686862/
Nick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGzcH5Nfd6w
There's was a film about 2 Geordie lads who stole Alan Shearer's car, can't remember the name of it though.
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