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August : Osage County
Violet Weston is one acid-tongue angry old lady who misses nothing that goes on in her family and she insures that none of her nearest and dearest escape her unbridled wrath. Well, her husband Beverley and alcoholic and rather melancholic poet does, but his method is quite extreme as he disappears out of the blue,…
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Big Sur
Jack Kerouac wrote his second autobiographical novel Big Sur when he was was trying to escape from all the unwelcome attention that he got after he published his big smash novel ‘On The Road’ a few years earlier (Walter Salles made that into a movie last year). This time its Michael Polish who has undertaken the…
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LE WEEKEND
University lecturer Nick is taking his school-teacher wife Meg on a weekend trip to Paris to celebrate their 30th Wedding Anniversary. They live in a suburb of Birmingham in the Midlands of the UK which is a place of little joy. Nick is hoping this trip will kick-start their neglected sex-life into action again, whereas…
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SPINNING PLATES
For his new documentary Joseph Levy chose to profile three wildly different restaurants/eating establishments whose proprietors and chefs had one thing in common : sheer passion that could also be perceived as lunacy too. At the top end of the scale was Alinea in Chicago that had just been voted as one of the ten…
