Think "sports documentaries," and you think of elegiac baseball histories or NFL Films mythologizing that game into a patriotic religion. Certainly ESPN hasn't done much to change this perspective, but maybe that's changing...

2009

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THE BIG DAY: NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! By Diane Werts

And no one expects Monty Python's Flying Circus to be 40 years old. But Britain's seminal silly surreality first hit the air that long ago today, with all its dead parrots and fish-slapping dances. Wait two more weeks, and IFC commemmorates the event...

2009

Oct

FLICK PICKS: LON CHANEY'S GONNA GET YOU IF YOU DON'T WATCH OUT By Diane Werts

He's been dead for 80 years, but he's still a singular star. Lon Chaney again takes the spotlight for Turner Classic Movies this October, being Hollywood's creepiest continuing presence...

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