Sam Pollard

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Leonard Maltin

Comedy, Jessie, Leonard, On, Tv & Film, Maltin, Movies

4.2 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The League is the latest documentary directed by Sam Pollard, and like most of his other work it is first-rate: a fascinating history of the Negro League and its often-overlooked contribution to baseball in America. Pollard has won almost every prize imaginable in his field and edited six features with his friend and contemporary Spike Lee. As Leonard and Jessie learned, he is also a major cinephile whose influences are wide-ranging. The League opens in selected theaters on July 7 and heads to VOD one week later, July 14. You don’t have to be a baseball fan to appreciate this slice of Americana: it is not to be missed.

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0:33.5	Hi everybody, I'm Leonard Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:38.3	You're listening to Malton on movies, and today we're going to talk to a man who makes
0:41.8	really good ones and has been doing so for a long time.
0:46.3	Sam Pollard is a master documentarian, master editor, master director, And his latest film is called The League.
0:57.0	And we're going to talk primarily about that, but also about his whole career.
1:02.0	Yeah.
1:03.0	And we're in...
1:04.0	I have to tell you, Sam, that when we got the email asking if we'd interview you,
1:10.0	I don't know the last time I saw my dad jump that quickly.
1:14.7	And he just went nuts and was so excited.
1:18.0	And he came to me and he said, oh my gosh, we get to interview Sam Pot.
1:20.4	He is a huge fan and has made me a huge fan of yours.
1:25.0	And very, very excited we get to speak to you today.
1:27.5	Thank you, Jesse. Thank you very much.
1:29.5	It's true.
1:31.7	Now, the league is about the, I want to say it right, the Negro National League, the National League,
1:40.6	the National League. It's really about the Negro Baseball League. There were many configurations of it.
1:45.0	You know, there was a National League,
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