5 min movie guide
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Abacus : Small Enough To Jail
The opening scenes of Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Steve James’s intriguing new film shows an affluent elderly Chinese/American couple watching James Stewart playing the heroic banker George Bailey in the classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life. This evidently is the Sung’s favorite film and is what successful lawyer Thomas Sung claimed inspired him when in 1984 he…
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The Dinner
For his fourth time in the directors chair NY based Israeli filmmaker Oren Moverman has adapted Herman Koch’s best selling novel The Dinner. It’s the story of two couples who get together for dinner somewhat reluctantly at a rid exclusive restaurant, and as the evening unfolds their polite exteriors disappear and by the time the…
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The Student
For his seventh feature film acclaimed Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov has adapted a stage play by the German writer Marius von Mayenburg that takes a hefty swipe at religious fanaticism with this tale of Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) a rebellious newly-devout teenager who is literally determined to make life hell for everyone else who he thinks are sinners.…
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Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is very pushy. And he’s a chancer too who just loves trying to make big financial ‘deals’ that are usually way out of his league, and with high flyers whose P.A.’s even refuse to return his calls. This new movie that charters Norman’s rise and fall throws us into the deep…
