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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!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 extrasMore 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/ 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 More Info On The History of Women’s Basketball:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHt8qIGLq68 WNBA TV documentary from 1997https://nma...
