#167: The Hustle Play, Pt, 2 - High Flying Bird

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Like WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP, Steven Soderbergh’s new Netflix digital experiment HIGH FLYING BIRD looks at what it takes for talented basketball players to survive outside of the professional leagues, with a high-stakes corporate heist in place of that film’s street-level hustle. This week, we talk over our reactions to HIGH FLYING BIRD’s story, dialogue, and in particular its iPhone cinematography, before bringing these two films together to look at how they each depict baller life outside the NBA, and how their respective cinematic styles buck sports-movie conventions. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP, HIGH-FLYING BIRD, or anything else in the world of film by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Keith: Dean DeBlois’ HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD • Genevieve: Spike Lee’s PASSING STRANGE • Scott: Christian Petzold’s TRANSIT • Tasha: Christopher Caldwell and Zeke Earl’s PROSPECT and Lee Cronin’s THE HOLE IN THE GROUND Outro Music: Lupe Fiasco & Evidence, “Catch Me I’m Ballin’” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, play bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.2	Sometimes it's not time for some tombole, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the past.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.4	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film on the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:57.1	I'm Scott Tobias here again with...
0:58.8	Genevieve Koski.
0:59.7	Tasha Robinson.
1:00.6	And Keith Phipps.
1:01.6	In our last episode, we discussed Ron Shelton's White Men Can't Jump, a mismatched buddy comedy about two streetball hustlers who make a living outside professional basketball circles.
1:11.9	Today, we'll be discussing High Flying Bird, the latest digital experiment from director
1:16.8	Steven Soderberg, which debuted on Netflix in early February.
1:20.9	High Flying Bird is a moonlight reunion of sorts.
1:23.8	Scripted by Terrell Alvin McCraney, who wrote the play on which Moonlight was based,
1:28.4	the film stars Andre Holland as Ray Burke, an agent who has the number one pick in the draft
1:33.5	as a client, but doesn't have a league for him to play in.
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