5 min movie guide
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THE DOUBLE
British Comedian turned Filmmaker Richard Ayoade’s sophomore feature ‘The Double’ was not what I expected. After his Sundance debut in 2011 with the delightfully refreshing quirky coming-of-age comedy ‘Submarine’, Ayoade has chosen to go very dark with this existential black comedy/thriller based on Dostoevsky’s novella of the same name. Thanks to Jesse Eisenberg’s energetic performance playing…
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THE NOTORIOUS MR BOUT
According to this new documentary from filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin it would seem that everybody has wildly exaggerated polarizing ideas about who Viktor Anatolyevich Bout really is. None more so than Mr Bout himself who considers himself simply as a devoted family man and a highly successful international entrepreneur, and the D.E.A. who claim that his…
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Elaine Stritch : Shoot Me
In the year approaching her 87th Birthday Broadway Legend Elaine Stritch allowed first time Director Chiemi Karasawa to follow her around and film her warts and all resulting in this compelling new documentary. A brave move for someone battling with diabetes and failing health who is determined to keep performing even though it seems such…
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Finding Vivian Maier
A young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two of them may be useful in his research. However, what John Maloof discovered that day in 2007 was a treasure trove of what is undoubtedly one of the finest collections of…
