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March 2012
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“There’s something special about Dustin. He’s so hungry that we have...”
– Eric Scallan
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Teddy Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
Dustin Poirier goes Zombie Hunting →
UFC interviews Dustin Poirier about his 5/15 fight with the Korean Zombie.
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This movie is really about the American dream. It’s just a little more extreme than the American dream.@TimCredeur
Fightville Filmmaker Came to Pull for UFC fighters
It’s not uncommon in documentary films for a director to remain emotionally attached to a subject long after the cameras stop rolling.
But Michael Tucker, the New York-based filmmaker who co-directed Fightville with Petra Epperlein, admits he has continued to follow the career of professional mixed martial arts fighter and Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight Dustin Poirier with something...
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FIGHTVILLE IN CALGARY ON MARCH 7
PRESENTED BY CALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AND HOT DOCS
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 7PM Director Michael Tucker in attendance! $13.00 Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Road Northwest
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Fighting is a fiction, but that doesn’t make it...
Fighting, if not rage, is a culture, for boys and soldiers and entertaining warriors. They craft their heroic self-images carefully.
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WatchFightville Official Trailer. In Theaters April 20.
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WatchFightville Exclusive Clip:Tim Credeur on Fighting
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A movie may have gotten me into MMA
Well, it’s finally happened. A movie may have gotten me into MMA. It wasn’t Never Back Down or Redbelt, and it certainly wasn’t Randy Couture in The Expendables. I’d seen some of the real matches but the footage captured in the documentary Fightville actually articulated the nuance and grace of the format.
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Making the MMA Sacrifice
A star in the making. A troubled young talent. A charismatic promoter and a wise veteran fighter/manager.
Documentary filmmakers Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein hit the jackpot when they embarked on “Fightville.” They just didn’t know it at first, starting the project almost by accident.
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Fighting is Truth
In the opening moments of the documentary Fightville, a small-time mixed martial arts promoter named Gil (The Thrill) Guillory fishes for the words to explain the sport’s exploding popularity.Finally, he settles on three: “Fighting is truth.”
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Go see this film!
The film sets out to demystify an oft-attacked sport, and this demystification is justified through the eloquence of the subjects, the cohesion of the editing, and the raw beauty of seeing human instinct at its most primal form.
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How extreme fighting captured a generation—and its...
It’s a departure for Tucker and his co-director and wife, Petra Epperlein. Their last four films, including the critically acclaimed Gunner Palace, revolved around Iraq. Tucker says it was the soldiers who turned him on to MMA. And he sees an interesting link between all-too-real combat and what takes place in the octagon. “We live in this very sedate, almost disembodied digital society,” he says....
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THINK: 'Fight Club' meets 'Rocky'
Chuck Palahniuk started a phenomenon when he crafted a disillusioned yuppie who finds his self and worth through underground fight clubs, and ‘Fightville’ makes it legit, looking into Mixed Martial Arts and the men who focus their boiling testosterone in the ring. The film digs into both sides of the equation: the young men who try to find focus with the sport and the efforts of...
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This movie is really about the American dream. It’s just a little more extreme than the American dream. — Tim Credeur
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Fightville is fantastic. It’s not really even about MMA, and it’s definitely not about the fan culture around MMA. What it’s really about is trying to be the ultimate at something you love.
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Fightville may be one of the best things to happen...
It might sound like an exaggeration, but I genuinely believe that Fightville may be one of the best things to happen to the sport in the last couple of years. It sheds a fair and unbiased light at a sport that has so often been vilified (who can forget John McCain’s idiotic “human cockfighting” statement from a couple of years back?). Yes, there is blood and brutality, but what sport doesn’t...
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WatchFIGHTVILLE EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Tim Credeur on Martial Arts
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The Friday Night Lights of Fight Films
Film lovers will surely adore just how gorgeously the film is shot and how it essentially plays as the Friday Night Lights of fight films. The film is full of wit and heart, and thankfully not always at the expense of the participants. It is nice to be reminded that there is a world outside of the big leagues in any sport and there couldn’t be three better characters to look at it with.
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FIGHTVILLE IS A KNOCKOUT
In many ways Fightville is an old-fashioned story – one about dedication, discipline and the value of hard work. It just happens to take place in the context of a very controversial subculture (one that is captured brilliantly with terrific camera work, including some beautifully shot fight scenes). And make no mistake, it is brutal. Guys can get knocked out in a matter of seconds. (Although...
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Every MMA fan must see Fightville
As I’d hoped, Fightville does what all great documentaries do – it burrows deep into its subject to unearth larger, more universal truths. Sure, the film will easily satisfy MMA fans (at least to the point that they’ll be tearing up the seats demanding more), but it should also excite casual viewers who perhaps aren’t interested in fighting or are even turned off by the thought of it. Because...
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SXSW Review
There are a few kinds of people in the world: Those who love mixed martial arts (MMA or “cagefighting” if you must), those who hate it, those who don’t care and those who are interested but end up wincing the entire time whenever they turn it on.
Whichever you are, there is something for you in the excellent documentary “Fightville,” a must-see
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Minor League MMA is a Major League Doc
In some ways these men are living their own version of the American Dream. They learn the value of hard work and the importance of having dreams as they push themselves through adversity to make it happen.
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WatchDustin Poirier Won’t Beat Himself
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...one of the best films of the year
Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s ‘Fightville,’ which examines the unabating mixed martial arts craze, is an exhilarating sports documentary and a levelheaded, piercingly intelligent treatment of a touchy subject. It humanizes and makes sense of a sport that, for all I knew, consisted of putting two men in a cage and setting them loose to beat the crap out of each other...
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FIGHTVILLE AT SXSW
It’s a remarkable thing to watch the attitudes of an audience change from repulsion to exhilaration over the course of a film, which is what happened at last weekend’s premiere screening of mixed-martial-arts documentary Fightville.
