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HYSTERIA
At the end of 19th Century in Victorian England there was no such term as ‘orgasm’, well for women anyway, and probably no need for one because according to this rather absurd comic movie, they weren’t getting them anyway. Many wealthy older women would traipse to Dr Robert Dalrymple’s Consulting Rooms displaying an array of…
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5 BROKEN CAMERAS
Emid Burnat is a Palestinian farmer who works the same land that his family have done for generations in Bil’in on the West Bank and this movie is his firsthand account when the village is threatened by the encroaching Israeli Settlements. This highly personal documentary film bears witness to how the non-violent resistance by the…
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TAKE ME HOME
Thirtysomething Thom is having another bad day. He fails to convince an Agent to give him his first break into photography, his Landlord has evicted him for not paying the rent yet again, and the illegal taxi cab he cheaply bought at an auction won’t start. It does eventually and Thom sets out into the…
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JOSEPHINE BAKER : BLACK DIVA IN A WHITE MAN'S WORLD
Ask anyone today what they know about the great Josephine Baker and they will inevitably trot out the fact that she scandalized tout Paris in the 1920’s by dancing wearing nothing more than a bunch of bananas. In this (far too short) film on her life we learn there was so much more to this…
