Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

This film is an improbable jewel. By intercutting talking heads conversations with 30 of the players from the historic 1968 Harvard-Yale game with footage from the television broadcast, film maker Kevin Rafferty creates a mesmerizing look into the minds of men... Full review

Thrilling football documentary with a serious side....Kevin Rafferty's thrilling documentary Harvard Beats Yale 29-29....great play-by-play film coverage.... ... Full Review

In his bare-bones documentary, director Kevin Rafferty interviews a dozen or so players involved in the game (featured in archival color footage), allowing them ample room to ramble, capturing some offbeat anecdotes - the players drop as many names as they do footballs (the game hinged on a surplus of turnovers). ... Full Review

The absorbing new picture "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" dissects one staggering football matchup-greatest college game ever, say many-and, simply by letting the onetime gridiron stars talk about the game they played and the era it was played in, the capsule cracks open and you're sucked inside and you cannot believe, even if you know the details, how that game turned out the way it did. ... Full Review

For Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 , it took 61 subjects and one inspired director to make a terrific movie. The movie builds with an inexorable, pleasurable pull to the game's final two minutes. ... Full Review

But Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 is better. A mysterious serendipity, even karma, entered the movie's genesis, with roots deep in Rafferty's personal history. might be the perfect idea for a new movie. ... Full Review

Bomb The filmmaker is Kevin Rafferty, who co-directed "The Atomic Cafe." He's a Harvard man, so his sympathies lie on one bench, not the other. ... Full Article

Well, six films in two days for me - not great, but not bad. And I wasn't alone - while I got into every movie I wanted to attend at the Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison, which ends Sunday, theaters... ... Full Article

Copies appeared in the Isthmus paper Thursday. And you can go here for more information. Tickets go on sale Saturday. The festival is being held in Madison April 2 through 5. ... Full Article

"Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" (**) relives the storied 1968 matchup between the two Ivy League schools. Interviews with key players are interspersed with game footage and baby boomer context. ... Full Article

Kevin Rafferty's documentary of a doozie of an Ivy League football faceoff in November 1968 keeps it simple; aside from a few vintage photos, there's nothing to interrupt the contemporary reminiscences of the participants except fixed-camera footage of the game... ... Full Article

Practically everything that happened in 1968, from assassinations to Grant Park to Nixon making a cameo on "Laugh-In," can be made (in the right documentarian's hands) to symbolize the churn and drama of that bloody, momentous year. ... Full Article