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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…

  • WHERE DO WE GO NOW?

    If we believed Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s wonderfully preposterous concept that if all the villages in the Middle East were run by women there would by no conflicts or war at all.  In this delightful satirical tale she actually has us believe that in one such case, it is more than feasible, it’s actually possible.…

  • DARK HORSE

    In 1998 I was in my hotel room in NY checking out Village Voice when I came across news that some Distributors had disowned Todd Solonz’s new movie ‘Happiness’.  I’m not sure if it was the rape, pedophilia, suicide and murder or the bizarre sexual phone caller that had particularly upset them, but once I read…

  • TOM WOLFE GETS BACK TO BLOOD

    Now in his ‘80’s, the writer and journalist Tom Wolfe is regarded as one of America’s great literary giants. Not just highly-successful but as an ingenious self-promoter quite infamous too.  One whose works are well read and reviewed although not necessary well-regarded by all his literary peers. In the early part of his writing career…