Review of The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) by Gary Arnold for Washington Post — 14 May 2004
Moses has staged one totally abstract, contemplative sequence of Erving practicing by himself on a playground court at night. The succession of slow-motion, overlapping dissolves of Erving gliding and dunking in solitary grandeur is a rather pretty abstraction, but it seems to stylize his prowess in a misleading way.
The transcendant thing about Erving is that he's capable of performing feats in competition and in real time that the rest of us only dream of doing while playing one-on-none.
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This review of The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) was written by Gary Arnold and published by Washington Post on 14 May 2004.
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh has generally received mixed reviews.
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