2010
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LOOSE CANNONS aka MINE VAGANTI
The Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown up sons Antonio and Tommaso to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part if it as he wants to be a writer and return home to Rome to…
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L'AMOUR FOU
The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has…
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
Martin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in her…
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
One can only imagine the fact that filmmaker Werner Herzog is the auteur that he is, played a crucial part in the French Culture Ministry allowing only him this unprecedented exclusive access to make this extraordinary film. ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ is his documentary on some stunning caves in Southern France only discovered as recently…
