WRIGLEY FIELD: Beyond the Ivy
by David Levenson
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Actor: Narrator: William PetersenDirector: David Levenson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 137 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bougainville Productions
DVD Reviews of WRIGLEY FIELD: Beyond the Ivy
DVD Review: I love Wrigley Field, but this documentary is just bad...
Summary: 1 Stars
I was really looking forward to popping this into my DVD player and witnessing an in-depth look at Wrigley Field and the fans that make it tick. Unfortunately, we don't get to see much of the inner-workings of Wrigley, and the obssessive fans that we do see leave a lot to be desired. I don't argue with the inclusion of any of the fans in the documentary, as they are all interesting and are what make up an integral part of Wrigley Field and Cubdom. However, the few fans and people that are included are milked for every minute of screentime and dialogue that they can give, and that comes off as extremely boring. The director should have cut down the extraneous bits, gotten to the point, and included more people and more interesting people. I would have loved to have seen a little bit about the locker rooms, and the people who make them run, or the field maintenance crew, or something about clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano. Instead, we are left with an extra hour of unnecessary and boring video footage, several borderline-exploitative interviews of fans at the end of their wits, and poorly produced and scripted "dramatized" scenes by undramatized people. As well, the documentary seems to have very little to do with the teams that have actually played at the ballpark, presumably because the producers didn't have any official licensing from the MLBPA or the NFL (yes, the Bears did also play at Wrigley Field). There seems to be no cohesive theme to glue and tie the documentary together. It just meanders around, seemingly endlessly, as a bunch of video some guy took and decided to throw together to make a "film".
Another big beef I have with this DVD is the super amateurish production values. The budget for this production was extremely low, and it is painfully obvious and not cleverly hidden. Handheld cameras, excessive usage of strange and unappealing camera angles, very poor audio processing, terrible video editing, and cornball scripting and acted scenes left a very bad taste in my mouth. It was hard for me to sit through this DVD. I did sit through it because I love the Cubs and I love Wrigley Field. But at the end of the documentary I felt extremely let down. I'm still looking for a great documentary about the Cubs and/or Wrigley Field with high productions values like NFL Films knows how to put out.
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