This week join Every Rom Com for a woman’s view on the sports romance genre, as we discuss writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s classic film “Love and Basketball.” We’ll explore the careers of Prince-Bythewood and actress Sanaa Lathan; we’ll delve into the history of women’s basketball, we’ll discuss our own relationship to sports, and we’ll ponder whether there’s such a thing as too many montages. As always, stay til the end of the episode to get our double feature recommendations for your next movie night!
0:00-9:54 Intro - What Was Your Relationship to Sports As a Kid?
9:54-19:24 TRAILER, Basic Info, Interesting Facts
More Info On Love And Basketball:
https://people.com/love-and-basketball-director-gina-Prince-Bythewood-admits-she-made-sanaa-lathan-cry-on-set-8750654
https://variety.com/2000/film/news/gina-Prince-Bythewood-1117760982/
https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/29069339/an-oral-history-love-basketball-20-years-later
https://www.essence.com/celebrity/love-and-basketball-15th-anniversary-sanaa-lathan-omar-epps/
https://people.com/sanaa-lathan-on-love-and-basketball-ahead-of-25th-anniversary-exclusive-8700195
Criterion DVD extras
19:24-24:01 General Opinion
24:01-35:12 Cast & Crew In-Depth
More Info On Gina Prince-Bythewood:
https://www.transracialjourneys.org/blog/black-excellence-gina-Prince-Bythewood/
https://communitiesthatcarecoalition.com/black-history-365-gina-Prince-Bythewood/
https://www.vogue.com/article/gina-Prince-Bythewood-profile
https://www.thewrap.com/the-woman-king-director-gina-Prince-Bythewood-interview/
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/14/363793023/director-gina-Prince-Bythewood-its-time-to-obliterate-the-term-black-film
More Info on Sanaa Lathan:
https://www.empireonline.com/people/sanaa-lathan/
35:12-48:49 Opening of the Movie, First Quarter, Monica and Quincy as Children
48:49-58:28 Second Quarter, High School Basketball, Monica and Quincy as Friends
58:28-1:10:42 High School Dance, Monica’s First Time
Link to the Documentary “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”: https://archive.org/details/dmotion-ThisFilmIsNotYetRated/This+Film+Is+Not+Yet+Rated+(1+of+2).mp4
1:10:42-1:19:49 Third Quarter, College Basketball, College Relationship
1:19:49-1:31:57 A Brief History of Women’s Basketball
More Info On The History of Women’s Basketball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHt8qIGLq68 WNBA TV documentary from 1997
https://nma...
