5 min movie guide
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QUEEN OF THE SUN: WHAT ARE THE BEES TELLING US?
So Harold Camping got it wrong (again) and the world didn’t end on May 21st, and we all laughed at the joke. Now I’ve seen this movie, which contained an equally sounding preposterous prediction from Rudolf Steiner, the eminent philosopher and social innovator, who in 1932 predicted that within 80-100 years all the honeybees…
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THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER
There’s nothing like a good old religious Civil War to get the juices flowing in any period costume drama. In this case it’s in France in 1564 and the Protestants are fighting the Catholics (yet again) on whose God is better etc. Also the source of another battle at the same time is the hand…
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SUPER
So this is Frank’s sad story. He has a pretty wretched life, which has only had two high spots to date. Marrying Sarah (a stripper and former junkie) and pointing a policeman in the right direction of a fleeing suspect. However after just a couple of months Sarah leaves him to move in with Jacques,…
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
Martin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in her…
