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With last week's release of Seabiscuit, the Palm Beach Post's sports writers come up a list of the best sports movies ever made. Not surprisingly, the list skews towards more recent films, but Gothamist was surprised to see how much we agreed with the selections. We were especially glad that Hoop Dreams, one of the best films ever made, period, made the list, thereby not getting the short shrift for being a documentary. The top ten:

It's premiering at Cannes in May, in official competition, and it's website doesn't launch until May 19, 2003, but for now, you can see the trailer for Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark follow-up, Dogville. Starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, von Trier regular Stellan Skarsgaard, James Caan, Ben Gazzara, and Paul Bettany, Dogville is about a woman who ends up in a small Rocky Mountain town, possibly in the 1930s. The trailer, however, is something totally strange. The actors seem to be talking about the film as actors, not as characters in the film. Kind of a meta trailer.