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  • NOT HERE TO BE LOVED aka Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé

    I so relate to the title of this movie, as it is something I would probably scream out at the top of my voice in a temper tantrum before everybody, me included, would burst out laughing.  It was what first made me notice this movie in the Netflix catalogue, but the reason I then sat…

  • CRAZY HORSE

    Frederick Wiseman’s stunningly photographed documentary is an up-close look behind the scenes at one of Paris’s most famous nude revues ‘The Crazy Horse’, and also at many of the bare behinds that inhabit the place. His camera rolled freely around the entire Club where uninhibited beautiful European girls seemed to be permanently in a state…

  • JEWS AND BASEBALL : AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY

    An intriguing documentary that traces how a Jewish presence on the baseball field and in the stadium bleachers evolved over the years. For someone like me who could write what I know about the game on a post-it,  and who is hardly an authority of American Judaism it was quite an eye opener …..although there times…

  • THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN

    Gregoire Canvel has two major passions in his life:  producing art-house movies and his family.  Right from the opening scenes of this movie we can see that he his in trouble … the financial kind.  The Production House that he owns has enormous debts and Gregoire with one hand permanently holding a cellphone to his…