Episode 25 - Steve James
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Legendary documentary filmmaker Steve James joins the show to talk with Sam about his extraordinary career, his masterpiece "Hoop Dreams," his film about the late Roger Ebert, his new film, "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," as well as his intimate approach to making films about complex subjects. UCLA's 'Kartemquin Films at 50': https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2016/kartemquin-films-at-50 Music for the by @Vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: http://krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about the show at http://talkeasypod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:09.6 | What do poll dancing, AI Chappots and diet culture all have in common. |
| 0:13.7 | These subjects have a home on Embodied, the award-winning podcast I host from North Carolina |
| 0:17.8 | Public Radio W-U-N-C. |
| 0:20.3 | My name is Anita Rao, and you can consider me your personal guide to taking on the taboo. |
| 0:25.0 | Join me to explore important questions about our bodies and our society, where nothing is off limits. |
| 0:31.0 | So go ahead, listen to Embodied every Friday wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, Welcome to Talk Easy, a weekly podcast of long-form conversations with the people shaping our culture today. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Sam Fregoso. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:05.0 | Off the top, I apologize for both now in the intro and during the podcast itself. |
| 1:11.0 | I am still recovering from the madness that is TIF and I sound |
| 1:17.2 | congested I sound sick and it's because I am and things are getting better and I |
| 1:22.0 | hope by next week this is all a distant |
| 1:24.8 | distant memory. For episode 25 of the show we have the trailblazing |
| 1:29.2 | documentarian Steve James joining us. If that name sounds vaguely familiar, |
| 1:34.0 | it's probably because you've seen a film or two of his. |
| 1:37.0 | In 1994, he released groundbreaking documentary Hoop Dreams |
| 1:42.0 | an intimate nearly three-hour portrait of two inner-city |
| 1:46.3 | Chicago kids who want nothing more in life to play professional basketball. |
| 1:50.7 | The revolutionary doc took nearly seven years to make as James and company combed through hundreds of hours of footage. |
| 1:59.0 | The result is something of a masterpiece that charts the evolution from hopeful teens to inevitable adults. |
| 2:07.0 | James, despite being from Hampton, Virginia, has a tendency to stick to Chicago stories, as does apparently this podcast. |
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