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Turn Back Time : From Rags to Riches to Rags
Filmmaker Marc Levin’s HBO documentary ‘Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags’ which chronicled the fate of New York’s garment district, made for very sad viewing back in 2009 when it was released. Now 7 years later, the area that was once New York’s largest employer is almost totally decimated as all the fashion businesses and its…
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Shared Rooms
Filmmaker Rob Williams who is one of the leading exponents of gay male romantic comedies that could best be described as ‘boy-lite’ fare, is developing quite a penchant for setting his movies in the holiday season. His most successful movie to date was Make The Yuletide Gay in 2009, and now his latest one involves…
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I, Daniel Blake
Now that veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach is 80 years old he keeps threatening that his latest movie will also be his last. We hope not as with I Daniel Blake he is not just back on form, but this is one of his best ever, born out by winning him his second Palme D’Or…
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Dapper Dougie Fields : a true English Eccentric
71 year old conceptual artist Duggie Fields is a quintessential English eccentric who cuts a very dashing figure in London’s creative community. Artist, fashion icon and muse, Comme Des Garcons runway model, queer activist, and designer who has been making his own very definite kind of waves since his first exhibition when he was just…
