5 min movie guide
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC ; THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
This is a feature length documentary on MARINA ABRAMOVIC the celebrated Performance Artist as as she prepared for her major retrospective as Museum Of Modern Art in N.Y. in 2010. Premiered at SUNDANCE 2012 this is reprinted from my Festival Blog. It is a major event for any living artist to be given a retrospective…
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ROMANTIC’S ANONYMOUS
One of the things I really liked about this quirky Gallic love story was that it was not about a flawlessly perfect beautiful young couple but rather about a painfully shy somewhat ordinary pair in their early/mid forties. It’s the sweet (literally) tale of Angelique a talented chocolatier who is so introvert that any small…
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
This movie was unquestionably the biggest breakout hit of SUNDANCE 2012. I will fess up that it hadn’t even entered my radar until everyone (that I respected) at the Festival was raving about it, and so much so that the Organizers thankfully scheduled an extra P + I Screening so i could join a…
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS
The original idea behind this latest movie version (the 17th) of this much beloved romantic 19th Century novel was to give it a glam Hollywood treatment with stars like Natalie Portman and Michael Fassbinder attached to play the leads, but the moment that Brit director Andrea Arnold came on board it was inevitable that this…
