I often draw and take notes while I am watching a movie, even in the theater.
If you can decipher my writing you will see watching Stevie back in March provided a great deal of insight on how to cut the Nelson footage.
But it was still not enough to get me going.
Today, 50 hours of video sits untouched on my kitchen counter in a 4×6″ detachable hard drive atop a pile of detached spiral paper: messy sketches of ideas that I won’t throw away or look at.
Today, Nelson is a paper weight that someday might be something else.
Matt rated Stevie 5 out of 5 Stars. · Add to Your Queue
Plot Summary: “When director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) attended Southern Illinois University, he became Stevie Fielding‘s Advocate Big Brother. When James relocated to Chicago to begin a film career in 1985, he ended his formal duties to Stevie. Ten years later, James again visits Stevie (now in his mid-twenties) and part way through filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime. What was to be a modest profile of Stevie, turns into an intimate four and a half year chronicle of a dysfunctional family’s struggle to heal. Not a pretty story.”
Update: Later in the day, I was reading Ebert’s blog and saw this entry on the 15 year anniversary of Hoop Dreams, Steve James first documentary.
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