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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Andy Minsker and the boys of the Mt. Scott Boxing Club shot by Bruce Weber is the living version of the rare book of the same name - Broken Noses. Charming and beautifully shot. Photography as you would expect of a high quality from Bruce Weber. A pre-cursor to the Abercrombie and Fitch montages that we have now grown so used to.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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How much love, how much fight necessary to pass from a young boy state to a young man state ? The young man coaching the young boys. And the elder man having coached or educated the young man. Or filming it. How much beauty giving sense to life ? How something of the male state passes through generations ? By the fighting, the movement together, the grasping of the bodies, the words, the beauty of the skins, the soft material of the boxing dress, the softness of the roses in the garden, the rose cheeks of a laughing young man, the smell of sweat in the locker-room. And the manificence of jazz music. The images, alternatively coloured or black and white, following the rythm and words of the music. A real poem. Of those which give strength and desire to the baby man to become a young man. A young man reading : the movements of his lips as the movements of his arms when he is boxing. Really wonderful
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Cool, violent, honest and embarrassing. Good-looking.
23 Jun 1999
Boxing as aestethics is unquestionably high value entertainment. Broken Noses is violent and graphic, as well as embarrassing and painstakingly honest in this no-holds-barred documentary of prizefighter Andy Minskner. The cool jazz-music of Chet Baker balances the hot tempered rage in the ring, making the experience of Weber's film both appalling and appealing at the same time. You definitely don't have to be a boxing fan to enjoy this (and most fight fans probably won't, because of the undisputable homoeroticism through the lens of Weber, perhaps understood as a weak perception of a hard game), and the bluntness of it's main character who frankly relieves his unhappy childhood with a violent stepfather. This may be Broken Noses' most touching moment.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
A minor gem: sweet, likeable, touching and erotic.
23 Aug 1998
This is a film about a young boxing champ who, for reasons one discovers as the film progresses, did not make the 'big-time'. In compensation, he has taken under his wing a group of young boys to teach them his art, and philosophy of life. He coaches them, runs them, and is in their corner for their bouts. He comforts them as they take their first punches, which really do hurt. Like all of Bruce Weber's work, there is an underlying hint of eroticism which may spice the film nicely for those inclined to perceive it. Andy Minsker, the boxer, is roughly handsome (Mr. Weber admires Chet Baker), with a broken nose and a sleek young body which he loves to show off. Andy has an infectious laugh, discusses girls with his young charges, teasingthem and encouraging them. His work is something of an antidote for the lack of support in his own youth. His father was also a boxer who didn't make it. Andy looked to him for guidance and support which wasn't there. They have a reconciliation of sorts on screen, and one can see Andy wants that. With its beautiful, battered protagonist and his stable of would-be stallions, this film is sweet, likeable, touching, and erotic. A minor gem, and Bruce Weber at his best.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Bruce Weber's video of Andy Minsker - a Must See!
19 Sep 2000
As a fan of Bruce Weber and someone familiar with his shots of boxer, Andy Minsker, I finally purchased 'Broken Noses'. It is very Bruce Weber for those of you familiar with the photographer. The film shows Andy and follows him around his small Oregon home town as he plays coach and friend to his young group of boxers in training. Bruce shows all sides to Andy's life, even attending a family get together where he interviews different family members about Andy. The film is about a 50/50 mix of black and white and color, and intertwined is a great music score that is also very much Bruce Weber. If my memory serves me correctly, I do beleive that Bruce won some International film awards for this film.
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