5 min movie guide
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306 Hollywood
Visual artist siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarin describe their very personal documentary about their maternal grandmother as ‘magical-realist’. After she dies the pair persuade their mother to delay selling grandmother’s New Jersey house so they can conduct an ‘archaeological dig’ that will serve as an excavation into her life. Anette Ontel the matriarch of their…
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The Wife
Glenn Close is first rate in this second rate movie. Her sublimely nuanced performance in the title role is the only reason to watch this otherwise very pedestrian film. Close stars as Joan Castleman the wife of Joe (Jonathan Pryce) who is just about to be woken in the middle of the night by a phone…
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Tea With The Dames
Made for BBC’s TV august arts program ARENA earlier this year, this piece of sheer cinematic joy has had its name tweaked (for some inexplicable reason) and now courtesy of IFC Films is heading to selected movie US movie theaters this Fall. The new title is a tad misleading as these four of the…
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Three Identical Strangers
Most Americans old enough to remember the 1980’s will be familiar with the story of the triplets separated at birth and adopted by different families who then by sheer fluke found each other when they were 19 years old. However, most of the media coverage at that time and the endless round of TV Chat Shows that…
