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Sunday Apr 20, 2025
172. North Dallas Forty (1979) & Breaking Away (1979)
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
Sunday Apr 20, 2025
This week, we discuss two American sports films from 1979.
The first is North Dallas Forty (1979), which exposes the gritty underside of professional American football, where painkillers, politics and profit overshadow the game
The second is Breaking Away (1979), which follows a group of working-class friends navigating identity, dreams and class divisions in a college town through the lens of competitive cycling.
Timestamps
What we’ve been watching (00:01:00) – The Last of Us S02E01, Interstellar, Black Mirror season seven, The French Dispatch
North Dallas Forty (00:35:43)
Breaking Away (01:04:15)
Coin toss (01:34:40)
Links
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Justwatch.com – streaming and rental links - https://www.justwatch.com
Limmy - How American sports sound to me - https://youtu.be/Gz2SX5dwO84?feature=shared
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