Word: slamfest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shot in a wandering, often annoying quasi-documentary style that might be called faux verite, the movie sometimes seems its own slamfest of verbal and visual attitudinizing. But Levin is attentive to the rhythms and politics of street and prison life: shootings that disrupt a conversation, animosities expressed in upended food trays. Gradually, the film's earnestness pays dividends in accumulated passion; its colliding moods--dank pessimism and loopy sentimentality--finally embrace. And it's always nice to see an independent film made by people who aren't secretly angling to produce the next season of Caroline in the City...
Leading the slamfest was Asker's Ellington Wilkins, whose 10 field goals included five slam dunks. Wilkins, who graduated from Houston Baptist University, finished the game with 26 points on 10-for-13 from the field, if you want to call one foot above the rim the field...
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