MARGIN CALL

In less than 24 hours a major Wall Street Investment Firm (that seemed awfully like Lehman Brothers) jolts from success to near death in a story that would have been inconceivable before this current financial free fall started in 2008  … or maybe not. The meltdown starts when in the midst of a round of … Continue reading

Marguerite

Very few people have ever heard of the wealthy American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who was an amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her dreadful singing voice that was so bad that it actually made her famous in the 1930’s & 1940’s, for all the wrong reasons. Now there is not one, but two movies … Continue reading

Maria by Callas

  The sheer beauty of Tom Volf‘s enthralling documentary on the legendary diva Maria Callas is that he puts such an emphasis on the music and her magnificent voice.  By using only her words from interviews, letters and videos whilst Volf touches on Callas’s life that was more tumultuous off-stage, he never lets that override this … Continue reading

Mariachi Gringo

When Edward was a young boy growing up in rural Kansas he dreamed of running away to join a band.  However, he’s now about to have his 30th birthday and he’s still living at home with his parents, and still taking the mind-numbing drugs his pediatrician had prescribed, and he’s about to lose his dead end job. The … Continue reading

Marianne Breslauer’s 1930’s gender-bending women

Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938.  Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved … Continue reading

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