Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody vs On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 1h 5m. Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody is the older of the two (2023 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody
On the Impossibility of an Homage| Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody | On the Impossibility of an Homage | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 0.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 5m | 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | – | Germany |
| Director | Naomi Yang | Xandra Popescu |
| Main cast | Naomi Yang, Sal Bartolo Jr., Mary Ellen Welch, Larry Venezia, Carlo Rotella | Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu |
Synopsis
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody
The film weaves together three stories: colorful boxing coach and ex-drill sergeant Sal Bartolo Jr., son of a renowned 1940s East Boston boxing champ; Naomi Yang herself, learning boxing from trainer Bartolo and reexamining some of her own family’s disturbing history; and schoolteacher Mary Ellen Welch, who in the 1960s mobilized a group of neighborhood women against encroachment from Logan airport, fighting back against an indifferent city…
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.
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