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Ballroom Rules
I’ve been dancing my socks off this month cinematically speaking. First the subliminal PINA (and I am still doing the ‘4 Seasons’ dance in my head), then DANCEMAKER the documentary on one of the world’s greats contemporary choreographers PAUL TAYLOR. Followed a frenetic look at the manic craziness of kiddies competing in the World Irish Dancing Championships in JIG, and…
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WE HAVE A POPE
At the start of Nanni Moretti’s wonderful rich and glorious new movie the College of Cardinals are shuttered away in the Vatican to go through the traditional ritual of choosing a new Pope in great secrecy now that the last one has shuffled off his mortal coil. As the camera scans down the long line…
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HOSPITALITE aka Kantai
Koji Fukada’s strange odd wee movie teeters between being a droll farce and an absurdist comedy, and it is very intriguing to say the least. Mikio is a meek little man inherited a small printing business from his father and which he runs from a narrow rickety building which is also home for him and…
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SPINNIN'
This exuberant and highly watchable debut film from director/writer/editor Eusebio Pastrana is essentially about a gay couple who struggle to fulfill their dream of having a child, but its actually more a story about his utopian vision of a world in which all couples, whether gay, straight, or in between, can live happily within the…
