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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…
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Hurricane Bianca
Hurricane Bianca is a contemporary take on a 1950’s screwball comedies and is about Richard a down-on-his-luck NY science school teacher who ends up taking a job in a small town school in the middle of rural Texas. This openly gay man sticks out like a sore thumb, and is soon fired. To keep his…
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Baring All For Art
When a select group of art lovers were invited to a Private View one evening of a Mapplethorpe Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, they didn’t have to worry about the dress code, as there wasn’t one. In fact they were asked to check all their clothes at the door. “When you look at…
