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The last instruction -- "Open third button" -- summarizes the calculated exhibitionism that drives the whole show, exhibitionism that pervades Ms. Stritch's offstage life, too, if this documentary is accurate.
If this documentary was a study in anything, it was in the grace and resilience with which these two families met the incoming tide and their cheerfulness in the face of impossible odds.
If this documentary is a mile-marker in the continued migration of niche Internet fads into the mainstream consciousness, then it also highlights the seediness that can be found during any boom, online or otherwise.
'Murderball' Directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro 6 p.m. today, Alice Tully Hall; noon tomorrow, Walter Reade Theater If this documentary about the sport of paraplegic rugby were just another profile in courage of athletes who have triumphed over disability, it would still be an inspirational crowd pleaser.
It would have been better if this documentary had been made thirty or forty years ago, when Recy Taylor (who appears and speaks briefly in Buirski's film) was in better health and able to discuss the events at length and in detail, and when Parks and other people involved in the case were alive.
So, if this documentary leads people back to reading the Gospels for themselves, that will have been its greatest value.
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But the effusive basketball player Kevin Sheppard takes to it with informal ease in this documentary, observational and authentic if not always artful.
A better place to start might have been to ask if the BBC would have made this documentary if the book hadn't been a bestseller.
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