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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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WEST OF MEMPHIS
Amy Berg’s new documentary is the fourth film to be made about an outrageous miscarriage of justice imposed on three teenage boys known as the ‘West Memphis Three’. Ms Berg had the added bonus that her predecessors lacked with the fact that her movie was produced by Sir Peter Jackson (the Oscar winning director ‘The…
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Casting By
For any cinephile this wonderful new documentary about the workings of casting directors is an absolute must. It is however not a detailed study on how they do their jobs, but more of a paean to Marion Dougherty, one of the first ever casting experts and a legendary icon in the industry. Prior to…
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STOKER
On the way home to celebrate India Stoker’s 18th Birthday her father is in a fatal car crash, and so the movie opens with a funeral and a wake. They are somber affairs not because of the death itself but the frigid atmosphere between the eccentric India and her aloof cold-fish of a mother. Stuck…
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Bambi
Jean-Pierre Provut was born in 1935 in a tiny village in Algeria, and one of his very earliest memories is of sitting on his mother’s lap as she tried in vain to get him to say his own name. It’s not that he couldn’t, but just that he wouldn’t. He was happiest wearing his older…
