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I don't find the 2 Chucks that funny really, but this looks intriguing.
 
Has there been any advancement upon this film?

I heard about it a long time ago but it seems there has been no significant updates.
 
The film premiered at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and will be shown in London next month. Here's the trailer:

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/128602718" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/128602718">Death of a Gentleman - Official trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/dartmouthfilmltd">Dartmouth Films</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Its about the changing landscape of cricket, the Big Three formation, the scandals and corruption, decline of Test cricket and the rise of T20.

They travel around Australia with Eddie and experience his ups and downs on tour, watch the Australia vs. India Test series, journey to India to take a closer look at the IPL, bug famous cricket people in the UK and look at open corruption in Sri Lanka as they try to piece together a picture for the future of Test cricket. They run into ogres, well-meaning automatons and the feverishly self- obsessed. Everyone passes the buck. As Eddie’s future teeters in the balance, so too does the future of Test cricket.
As a story of deceit, incompetence and greed unfolds; one man is living his dream, while two others are trying to keep theirs from dying.

Death of a Gentleman is not a nostalgic look back at a sport that professionals played against amateurs while stopping for tea. It’s a modern morality tale about a future where sport and money collide, India as a super-power, the curse of the professional administrator and set in a world where fans are better connected to (but more disconnected from) their heroes than ever before.
More than that, it is a final call; not just to cricket fans and administrators, but everyone in a rapidly changing world. If you care about something that’s in danger, then don’t pass the buck, do something about it.

Before it’s too late.
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Film's getting rave reviews. Here's Jarrod Kimber and Sam Collins doing an interview about the film:

https://youtu.be/WgbNanA4cnM

Great line from Kimber - "Cricket is basically saying we want Srinivasan but we don't want one of the greatest stories in cricketing history in Afghanistan."
 
Definitely will check this out . I think it's out tomorrow.
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a release day treat, here's a little taster of Giles Clarke from our off-cuts <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/changecricket?src=hash">#changecricket</a> <a href="http://t.co/Ze2MturEdI">pic.twitter.com/Ze2MturEdI</a></p>— Death of a Gentleman (@DOAGfilm) <a href="https://twitter.com/DOAGfilm/status/629679484875239424">August 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Giles Clarke. Giles bloody Clarke.

What a charmer eh.
 
Watching it next week . Should be good. Probably nothing that we don't already know - the big 3 ruining the game for their own selfish purposes, but needs to be said.
 
Not just death of test cricket is impending. Cricket overall is going to die a slow and painful death
 
Seen it twice - 2nd time was a Q&A where had a brief chat afterwards....in particular about the gaps......


A documentary by cricket bloggers – a handsome Stephen Merchant lookalike Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber lookalike Jarrod Kimber, based upon conversations with players, analysts and administrators focuses on the two key issues facing the "dying gentleman" that is my first love – Test Cricket. Namely, firstly the vast schism between cricket's haves (broadly 1stIndia, 2nd India, 3rd India, somewhere way behind in the distance England and Australia) and the have nots (the remaining 7 Test playing nations not to even mention all the associate members). Secondly how the great longer version of the game is under threat from the relatively new brasher, trashier, vastly inferior, Bollywood inspired crash, bang, wallop thrills provided from its Frankenstein's Monster of a creation – IPL.

However interspersed through this driving theme was perhaps the more engaging story of befriending and following Ed Cowan's career. The highs – scoring a half century on debut versus India at the MCG on Boxing day in front of 70,000 plus people and his only century against South Africa at the GABBA. The lows – being ignored by fans clambering past him to get David Warner's autograph which he takes with typical good humour, but more significantly getting a first baller in an Ashes test at Trent Bridge which together with a failure in the 2nd Innings brought his brief test career to an end. The inevitable fall from hero to zero played out in the cruel modern World of social media allied to an honest self-assessment of not being "good enough" was certainly the most poignant moment suggesting that this story was worthy of being the subject of a film in its own right. Surely the tragic untimely death of Phillip Hughes doing what he loved best will one day be made into a film but for cricket fans or sport fans generally for that matter seeing the hard work and determination that a young boy puts in to fulfil his lifetime ambition and dreams come true must make such ripe pickings for the big screen.

Returning however to the chief premise of the movie, which is that the people who run cricket do so for their own good rather than the benefit of the game or its fans. Greedy, selfish sporting administrators from the big 3 making dodgy deals and pacts in secret meetings to the detriment of poorer cricketing nations. Hard to believe I know! Say whatever you like about Sepp Blatter; and there is much to criticise, but at least he is an avowed expansionist of the game of football – taking power away from its traditional political strongholds of Europe and South America and thereby providing a development infrastructure for the new generations of African footballers that populate the top domestic leagues.

Cricket administrators on the other hand not only want to carve up more of the revenues between themselves but also to further reduce the number of teams in the World Cup. Much of this is probably well known already to most informed cricket lovers but what came as a shock to me was that it was the ICC, not the IOC, that blocked cricket (albeit T20) from being an Olympic sport. The big 3 fearful perhaps that potentially 100m Chinese fans and players may threaten their nice money spinning and political oligarchy. As Gideon Haigh, the respected Australian cricket writer and historian, asks "what other sport is trying to reduce the number of participating countries?"

The film though certainly missed a few pertinent points such as India's stubborn refusal to adopt DRS in complete defiance to the rest of the cricketing world and its symbiotic parasitic relationship with Pakistan. India needs to play Pakistan in the shorter form of the game as it generates revenues like no other sporting fixture apart from ironically perhaps what these contests closely represent - one off big boxing bouts but it is imperative that India wins so not to damage the precious brand. India therefore fails to support Pakistani cricket by not permitting its players in the lucrative IPL or honouring test series – not because of notional security issues but due to TV rights wrangling to name just 2 examples. Yes filthy lucre is at the heart of every decision-making in the game. Giles Clarke, Narayanaswami Srinivasan, Ravi Shastri and KP for instance (just because he is being KP) certainly don't come out of the film looking good. It’s just not cricket!

Nonetheless a decent well intentioned film that unfortunately will probably not appeal to many outside the narrow confines of cricket lovers in this country. Collins and Kimber liken India to 1920s America on speed in its path to modernity. Permit me then to quote from the novel that perhaps captured best the mood of the age - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Even more pertinently “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

Please appreciate Test cricket while it's still alive and don't let this gentleman die.

* Apologies for any inaccuracies in this review as I was distracted by sitting next to Joanna Lumley. Certainly the highlight of the evening for me. The lowlight though was being escorted by security for attempting to invade her personal space.


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Amoeba said:
Seen it twice - 2nd time was a Q&A where had a brief chat afterwards....in particular about the gaps......


A documentary by cricket bloggers – a handsome Stephen Merchant lookalike Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber lookalike Jarrod Kimber, based upon conversations with players, analysts and administrators focuses on the two key issues facing the "dying gentleman" that is my first love – Test Cricket. Namely, firstly the vast schism between cricket's haves (broadly 1stIndia, 2nd India, 3rd India, somewhere way behind in the distance England and Australia) and the have nots (the remaining 7 Test playing nations not to even mention all the associate members). Secondly how the great longer version of the game is under threat from the relatively new brasher, trashier, vastly inferior, Bollywood inspired crash, bang, wallop thrills provided from its Frankenstein's Monster of a creation – IPL.

However interspersed through this driving theme was perhaps the more engaging story of befriending and following Ed Cowan's career. The highs – scoring a half century on debut versus India at the MCG on Boxing day in front of 70,000 plus people and his only century against South Africa at the GABBA. The lows – being ignored by fans clambering past him to get David Warner's autograph which he takes with typical good humour, but more significantly getting a first baller in an Ashes test at Trent Bridge which together with a failure in the 2nd Innings brought his brief test career to an end. The inevitable fall from hero to zero played out in the cruel modern World of social media allied to an honest self-assessment of not being "good enough" was certainly the most poignant moment suggesting that this story was worthy of being the subject of a film in its own right. Surely the tragic untimely death of Phillip Hughes doing what he loved best will one day be made into a film but for cricket fans or sport fans generally for that matter seeing the hard work and determination that a young boy puts in to fulfil his lifetime ambition and dreams come true must make such ripe pickings for the big screen.

Returning however to the chief premise of the movie, which is that the people who run cricket do so for their own good rather than the benefit of the game or its fans. Greedy, selfish sporting administrators from the big 3 making dodgy deals and pacts in secret meetings to the detriment of poorer cricketing nations. Hard to believe I know! Say whatever you like about Sepp Blatter; and there is much to criticise, but at least he is an avowed expansionist of the game of football – taking power away from its traditional political strongholds of Europe and South America and thereby providing a development infrastructure for the new generations of African footballers that populate the top domestic leagues.

Cricket administrators on the other hand not only want to carve up more of the revenues between themselves but also to further reduce the number of teams in the World Cup. Much of this is probably well known already to most informed cricket lovers but what came as a shock to me was that it was the ICC, not the IOC, that blocked cricket (albeit T20) from being an Olympic sport. The big 3 fearful perhaps that potentially 100m Chinese fans and players may threaten their nice money spinning and political oligarchy. As Gideon Haigh, the respected Australian cricket writer and historian, asks "what other sport is trying to reduce the number of participating countries?"

The film though certainly missed a few pertinent points such as India's stubborn refusal to adopt DRS in complete defiance to the rest of the cricketing world and its symbiotic parasitic relationship with Pakistan. India needs to play Pakistan in the shorter form of the game as it generates revenues like no other sporting fixture apart from ironically perhaps what these contests closely represent - one off big boxing bouts but it is imperative that India wins so not to damage the precious brand. India therefore fails to support Pakistani cricket by not permitting its players in the lucrative IPL or honouring test series – not because of notional security issues but due to TV rights wrangling to name just 2 examples. Yes filthy lucre is at the heart of every decision-making in the game. Giles Clarke, Narayanaswami Srinivasan, Ravi Shastri and KP for instance (just because he is being KP) certainly don't come out of the film looking good. It’s just not cricket!

Nonetheless a decent well intentioned film that unfortunately will probably not appeal to many outside the narrow confines of cricket lovers in this country. Collins and Kimber liken India to 1920s America on speed in its path to modernity. Permit me then to quote from the novel that perhaps captured best the mood of the age - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Even more pertinently “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

Please appreciate Test cricket while it's still alive and don't let this gentleman die.

* Apologies for any inaccuracies in this review as I was distracted by sitting next to Joanna Lumley. Certainly the highlight of the evening for me. The lowlight though was being escorted by security for attempting to invade her personal space.


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Thanks for the review. Giles Clarke didn't come away with any credit either - his arrogance is breathtaking !
 
Welcome. Yep....agreed

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Death of a Gentleman

Anyone else watched this documentary? If not, then you should. Shocked to see the arrogance of Giles Clarke.
 
no, where did you watch this? was it on sky sports/bbc i player/itv/channel 4, can you get it on kodi?.

really want to watch this.

wont be surprised about giles clarke - with the amount of money thrs to make, what can you expect, all sports are corrupt, just most are not as corrupt as cricket.
 
Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber did a superb job on this.

Giles Clarke is a bully and a tyrant, when he found out Kimber was involved in a documentary about the ICC he not only removed his press accreditation but even planned on planting a story in the press levelling false racism allegations against him.

Infact Clarke has a history of threatening to ban journalists from the press box with whom he has a grudge with. Thankfully the House of Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport are going to call up Giles Clarke later this year - DOAG is even going to be screened to Commons members ! Tick tock Giles, can't escape accountability anymore.
 
[MENTION=66515]finalfantasy7[/MENTION] , [MENTION=23613]90MPH[/MENTION]
Try googling the words "stream" and "Death of a gentleman". I would recommend that, if you can, download before watching.
 
Markhor said:
Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber did a superb job on this.

Giles Clarke is a bully and a tyrant, when he found out Kimber was involved in a documentary about the ICC he not only removed his press accreditation but even planned on planting a story in the press levelling false racism allegations against him.

Infact Clarke has a history of threatening to ban journalists from the press box with whom he has a grudge with. Thankfully the House of Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport are going to call up Giles Clarke later this year - DOAG is even going to be screened to Commons members ! Tick tock Giles, can't escape accountability anymore.
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You could tell he'd have been perfectly suited to being a a Governor during the Raj lording over the colonised masses. I'm betting that when dictating the terms of the Big3 takeover he was in high heaven when dealing with the representatives of the other (non-white) boards, whilst biting his lips and grinding his teeth having to be subserviant to N. Srinivasan as it would have been bad enough treatng him as an equal.
 
Yossarian said:
Anyone else watched this documentary? If not, then you should. Shocked to see the arrogance of Giles Clarke.
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It's a wonderful movie, isn't it? I downloaded it from iTunes.

Giles Clarke actually crucifies himself in the movie with his arrogance and ignorance. But this is the man who attacked the editor of Wisden at the Wisden dinner!
 
Junaids said:
It's a wonderful movie, isn't it? I downloaded it from iTunes.

Giles Clarke actually crucifies himself in the movie with his arrogance and ignorance. But this is the man who attacked the editor of Wisden at the Wisden dinner!
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I'm looking forward to him being grilled by the House of Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport. I get the feeling that Committee Member Damian Collins MP might be putting a few tough questions to Giles Clarke.
 
Yossarian said:
[MENTION=66515]finalfantasy7[/MENTION] , [MENTION=23613]90MPH[/MENTION]
Try googling the words "stream" and "Death of a gentleman". I would recommend that, if you can, download before watching.
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thanks, watched it twice in a row, brilliant job, hoped that they could have interviewed the Aussie guy.
 
Markhor said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en-gb"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As a release day treat, here's a little taster of Giles Clarke from our off-cuts <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/changecricket?src=hash">#changecricket</a> <a href="http://t.co/Ze2MturEdI">pic.twitter.com/Ze2MturEdI</a></p>— Death of a Gentleman (@DOAGfilm) <a href="https://twitter.com/DOAGfilm/status/629679484875239424">August 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Giles Clarke. Giles bloody Clarke.

What a charmer eh.
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Yeesh lol
 
Finally got my hands on this film and can honestly say it's a film every cricket fan should watch.
 
finalfantasy7 said:
no, where did you watch this? was it on sky sports/bbc i player/itv/channel 4, can you get it on kodi?.

really want to watch this.

wont be surprised about giles clarke - with the amount of money thrs to make, what can you expect, all sports are corrupt, just most are not as corrupt as cricket.
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It's on Netflix. A great watch.
 
There was another movie I watched on cricket. What a great film. Had a very deep and symbolic meaning to it. Something to do with racism. Can't remember the name.
 
the only thing regarding cricket on netflix
 
ExpressPacer said:
There was another movie I watched on cricket. What a great film. Had a very deep and symbolic meaning to it. Something to do with racism. Can't remember the name.
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I've seen this. A westindian moves into a white neighbourhood attracting their suspicion. A neighbour's wife falls for him after he teaches their young son cricket. I don't remember the movie name but the black actor is a hollywood regular i think.
 
Thomaskutty said:
I've seen this. A westindian moves into a white neighbourhood attracting their suspicion. A neighbour's wife falls for him after he teaches their young son cricket. I don't remember the movie name but the black actor is a hollywood regular i think.
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I believe you are referring to Wondrous Oblivion.
 
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