5 min movie guide
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PORFIRIO
In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act. What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the…
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LA PROMESSE
With the Belgian film auteur Dardenne brothers latest movie ‘The Kid on The Bike’ opening in NY to near rave reviews, it seemed like a good time to hone up on some of their earlier successes that are playing in a Retrospective at the Miami Beach Cinematheque this month. With five films in their resume…
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DETATCHMENT
Billed as a drama, this new movie on the hellish experiences of a substitute teacher in a public high school from infrequent Brit filmmaker Tony Kaye is nothing short of a horror story. It makes his 1998 hit movie ‘American History X’ seem like a walk in the park by comparison, and that, if you recall,…
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THE CONQUEST
This is the story of how Francois Sarkozy actually landed the job of the President of France, and it isn’t always a pretty tale. There is a bold announcement at the beginning of this feature film that states that this is BASED on events that happened as opposed to it being a factual account, and…
