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KOCH
Neil Barksy’s engrossing new documentary is an affectionate look at one of the most infuriating larger-than-life politicians who almost loved his job and his city as much as he adored himself. Ed Koch was a three term Mayor of New York who rescued his city from the throes of bankruptcy in the 1970’s and practically…
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A Place At The Table
This quietly unassuming new documentary is unquestionably one of the most powerful sobering wake-up calls I have sat and watched for a very long time. Without any of the dramatic shock tactics and megaphone shouting of high profile exposes from the likes of filmmakers such as Michael Moore, the movie carefully rolls out a stream of the…
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LITTLE WHITE LIES aka LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS
After visiting one of their best friends in intensive care unit at the hospital after he had a near fatal motorbike accident a despondent tight knit group of friends gather outside. Their big dilemma is do they hang around in Paris waiting for Ludo to be well enough to have visitors or just go on…
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RENT BOYS
For well over the past four decades Berlin’s Zoo Railway Station has been the main stomping ground for the city’s rent boys. Using archive footage from 1965 this fascinating documentary from gay activist filmaker Rosa Van Praunheim paints the scene there as it has evolved until the present day. It is a desperately sad tale…
