The documentary Lenny Cooke is a hoop nightmare.
by Ben Sachs
For their first nonfiction feature, New York-based indie filmmakers Joshua and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) tell the story of a onetime pro-basketball hopeful who lapsed into obscurity after failing to make the NBA draft in 2002. The movie communicates a sense of righteous anger about wheeling and dealing in professional sports (which one interviewee compares to the slave trade) and about American celebrity culture in general.…[ Read more ]