Word: rollers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roller Derby...
...seems at first far too facile and fragile an idea for a full-length movie: the roller derby as a metaphor for America's competition, violence, degradation. Scenes of derby competition worked well in films like Petulia and Medium Cool because they were used as secondary symbols, episodes that were part of a more complex whole. But an entire feature devoted to the derby, its stars and its lifestyles? Director-Cameraman Robert Kaylor confounds all expectations in Derby. He does it by treating the competition not as a symbol but as a sorry fact of life...
...real people re-enact real situations. The results are often stunning. There is a pervasive tone of desperation in Derby, a sense of ironic, backhanded success about O'Connell and a pitiful aimlessness in Snell. As the documentary ends, he gets on a motorcycle and rides out to roller derby school in San Francisco. Snell says he wants to "better" himself, but Derby has made it clear that success will mean no more than living a hollow dream. Jay Cocks
...being a purely optical phenomenon as monolithic sculpture could be expected to get. But its slow, massive ceilings and straightenings are a product of exactly that quality that constructed sculpture reacted against: a steady continuity of line, edge and surface. The eye travels along these convolutions as on a roller coaster, accepting the variations of pace, slow in the curves, fast on the straights...
...game that was closer to Saturday afternoon roller-derby than National championship caliber hockey,. a depressed, tired Harvard team ended its unpredictable season by falling to Denver, 1-0, in the NCAA consolation game in Syracuse...