Archive for the ‘Soccer Films’ Category
French film legend Gerard Depardieu will play a FIFA president in a French production set to explore the history of the organization and its role in helping to make soccer the most popular sport in the world. No, not Sepp Blatter (though the two are buddies), but FIFA’s third president, …
Via Deadline.com, 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment are in talks to make a film based on the soccer match-fixing scandal perpetrated by Dan Tan and friends. The film would be based on the ESPN the Magazine story All The World Is Staged by Brett Forrest, which appeared in the …
Last month we shared with you eight dramatic minutes from an upcoming documentary by Levy Films on the Seattle Sounders called “American Football.” This month, via Sounder At Heart, we share a full 30 minutes of a rough cut of the film. Levy hopes to have the final version out …
Here are eight minutes of footage for an upcoming Seattle Sounders documentary “American Football” that makes me angry. Mostly because there’s only eight minutes of it. Credit to SF at The Offside Rules, who is the reigning king of finding any film on American soccer that exists on the interwebz. …
Irish movie star Colin Farrell is reportedly working on a film about the Homeless World Cup, the annual street soccer tournament that advances the cause of combating homelessness through the sport. Farrell was directly exposed to the organization four years ago when he narrated the documentary “Kicking It” about the …
Robin Friday’s professional career lasted just three seasons. His drinking, smoking, and drug abuse—vices that befit his rebellious attitude—eventually destroyed his prodigious talent, drove him out of football, and eventually led to his early death. Remembered fondly by both Reading and Cardiff fans, Friday’s story is the fascinating tale of …
…which is two more than Bruce Arena and Steve Sampson COMBINED. Hell, it might be more than Jurgen Klinsmann, although probably not because Klinsmann won championships and stuff as a player. Bradley, currently in the middle of attempting to lead Egypt back to the World Cup while that country struggles …
So this isn’t a soccer film so much as it’s a “romantic comedy featuring a guy with an accent and soccer”, but we share the trailer for “Playing For Keeps” starring Gerard Butler as George Dryer because there’s “footage” of him in there playing for Celtic. Enjoy?
The Four Year Plan, a behind-the-scenes looks at the aftermath of the takeover of Queens Park Rangers by billionaire owners and their four year struggle to lift the club to former glories won this year’s “Golden Whistle” award as the top film of the Kicking & Screening soccer film festival …
We generally lament the lack of big time Hollywood-produced soccer movies around these parts. The KCKRS list of Top Ten Football Films included a preponderance of non-Hollywood films because the big studios don’t do football. It would be nice to see Hollywood give soccer, and not just the AYSO oranges-at-halftime …
We at KCKRS love soccer movies. Yes, there are bad ones. Some really really bad ones, which we still love. And some really good ones, which we love even more. In honor of Jay Demerit’s Rise And Shine getting a theatrical release, we’ve decided to share our top ten favorite …
“Rise And Shine,” the documentary of Vancouver Whitcaps defender Jay Demerit’s rocky-esque rise from amateur soccer and pub leagues to the English Premier League and the World Cup, has been generating buzz for months. Well, now it’s set for a theatrical release.
Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro – Xerxes in 300 – plays Brazilian legend Heleno de Freitas in a new biopic currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. Heleno’s story is a tragic one, because while he was Brazil’s biggest star in the early 1940′s, his life ended at 38 due …
Director Audrey Aubrey Lethridge chronicles the Liberian National Amputee Football team in a new documentary called “One Legged Stars.” As the country recovers from the civil wars that marked much of the last three decades, men who lost limbs in the conflict find joy in the freedom of football. Even …
If you didn’t watch “The Little Team” when we wrote about them originally, you need to watch it now. As in right now. It’s one of the best pieces of football movie-making we’ve seen and just a brilliant tribute to the game. We sat down the creative directors at El …
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