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TOPIC: Baseball Movies with Noah Gittell

"The one constant through all the years has been baseball" the late, great James Earl Jones said in Field of Dreams. "America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. It's a part of our past. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

Movies have featured baseball for over a century, with Babe Ruth starring in Babe Comes Home. The Pride of the Yankees turned Lou Gehrig from an all-time great into a national icon. Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Damn Yankees turned baseball into a musical. In the 1970s Bang the Drum Slowly made audiences cry, and The Bad News Bears made them laugh. The 80s and 90s became the golden age for baseball movies, with Field of Dreams and The Natural playing up the mythic qualities, Bull Durham and Major League having fun with baseball tropes, Eight Men Out examining the sport's ugly side, and A League of Their Own showing baseball as a force for change. More recently, Moneyball, Sugar and 42 took a harder look at the sport.

What have baseball movies had to say about our national pastime, and how has that changed over the years? How do baseball movies reflect the sport's role in American life and values?

We are thrilled to be joined by Noah Gittell, author of Baseball the Movie. Noah was born in 1980, but he came alive in 1986 when the Mets won the World Series. A lifelong fan of baseball and movies, he has since channeled his passions into articles for The New York Times, The Ringer, The Guardian, LA Review of Books, Slate, Defector, Elle, Esquire, GQ, Wired, UPROXX, Decider, and more. He has been a regular critic at Washington City Paper and The Rye Record for over a decade and is a regular on-camera contributor to BBC’s flagship film program “Talking Movies.”

Please RSVP to atspector@hotmail.com and you'll get the Zoom link 1-2 days before the discussion.

The Cinema Lounge, a film discussion group, meets the third Monday of every month (unless otherwise noted) at 8:00pm online via Zoom. You do not need to be a member of the Washington DC Film Society to attend. Cinema Lounge is moderated by Adam Spector, author of the DC Film Society's Adam's Rib column.