5 min movie guide
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Certified Copy
Much to my disbelief Certified Copy is opening in NY + LA to excellent reviews this weekend. It’s not that I think it’s a bad movie; it’s just that I found it equally pretentious and emotionally flat, so frankly am surprised at its initial reception. Set in a small Tuscan town where James Miller,…
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SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL
This unlikely film is about an unlikely Punk musician who was an eccentric and wild performer and whose music with its bizarre lyrics was an unforgettable presence on the Brit music scene until his untimely death at the age of 57 in 2000. Ian Dury’s childhood polio my have left him physically disabled but it seemed…
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GESHER
Sometimes I sit through excruciatingly painful boring movies so that you don’t have too. To be totally honest I will ‘fess up that I don’t do this deliberately, but it’s just the downside of trying to want to push the envelope with my viewing choices. The blurb from Miami International Film Fest Schedule ‘a portrait…
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IMELDA
Sometimes even obsessed cine-philes let a wee gem slip past them, and this is one from 2004 that I was so thrilled to catch up with. This Sundance award winning doc. about the infamous former First Lady of the Philippines is a sheer delight and shows what a consummate actor Imelda Marcos is. She believed…
