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Saturday, March 31, 2007

"Unstrung" to debut at Tribeca Film Festival

UPDATE: The dates, times, theaters and admission charge for "Unstrung":
[UNSTR] Discovery
2007, 95 mins

  • Thu, Apr 26, 7:15pm
    AMC 34th Street Theater 12
    | $18
  • Sat, Apr 28, 2:30pm
    Regal Cinemas Theater 5
    | $18
  • Sun, Apr 29, 10:30am
    Tribeca Cinemas Theater 1
    | $18
  • Thu, May 3, 6:30pm
    AMC Kips Bay Theater 13
    | $18
  • Sat, May 5, 3:00pm
    AMC Kips Bay Theater 11
    | $18

    We're back in Kalamazoo after our usual game of hide-and-seek the airlines seem to want to play with our luggage every time we fly.

    One of my minor objectives during the week I spent around the Media Center at the Sony Ericsson was to find out if any of the New York-based tennis journalists there knew anything about the junior tennis documentary Unstrung that I'd heard about on a non-tennis sports blog. No one did, and I was mystified, until Lynn Berenbaum at Off The Baseline posted this link.

    Once I saw Rob Klug's name as the director (and the photo of Clancy Shields), I knew that "The Zoo" had undergone a name change, and this is the long-awaited Mike Tollin-Jim Courier production filmed in 2005.

    I won't be able to go to New York for the premiere, but if any one in that area can, I'd love to post your impressions of the documentary on this site.



  • 10 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Are movies that are played in this film festival usually released on dvd or tape. Or do you think this will play in local movie theaters? Does anyone know who the junior players are that are featured in this movie?

    Colette Lewis said...

    It was originally slated to be a movie theatre release.
    Sam Querrey, Jesse Levine, Clancy Shields, Nikita Kryvonos, Holden Seguso, Tim Neilly, Alex Clayton, Donald Young, Greg Hirshman and Malcolm Harrison.

    Anonymous said...

    Colette or anyone else who knows the deal, I just now realized James Wan is nowhere to be found. What's the deal with him, anyone?

    Colette Lewis said...

    I asked John Whitlinger about James Wan at the Team Indoor and he told me he was still not 100% from the broken wrist he suffered last May at the NCAAs.

    Anonymous said...

    Y'know, I was meaning to email you about this but I got OBE. I also figured that you were on top of it, as you usually are. :)

    Glad you got the info, though I'm distressed that no one else knew about it in Miami. ((grrrrr))

    Anyway, I've been looking forward to seeing it but can't get up to NYC for the fest. Here's hoping it's released on DVD!

    lynn

    Anonymous said...

    $18 is that what they charge these days for movies in NYC? I'll wait to rent the DVD.

    Anonymous said...

    $10.00 is the standard NY price for movies -- New Yorkers will not pay $18 for a tennis movie. Courier was a terrifc tennis player -- doesn't have a clue about marketing movies!!!

    Anonymous said...

    2 years of hype for the movie "The Zoo" and it turns out to be a dud.

    Anonymous said...

    What a blunder, pricing thr tickets at $18, that and titleing the movie, "Unstrung" rather the the provocative, "The Nats at the Zoo."

    Anonymous said...

    Stringman
    only a miniscule (non-existant) percentage of the population knows about the "The Nats at the Zoo" most of the population would think it was a movie about bugs at a Zoo and for $18, unless it starred Beonce, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, etc. the chance of any one seeing the movie is zero.