2012
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Ballroom Rules
I’ve been dancing my socks off this month cinematically speaking. First the subliminal PINA (and I am still doing the ‘4 Seasons’ dance in my head), then DANCEMAKER the documentary on one of the world’s greats contemporary choreographers PAUL TAYLOR. Followed a frenetic look at the manic craziness of kiddies competing in the World Irish Dancing Championships in JIG, and…
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Born & Raised
Young Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and…
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Beyond Assignment
The movie followed three photo/journalists in far flung parts of the world as they went about their work. The fact that they were all located in dangerous regions made it more fascinating, and that they all happened to be women added a certain frisson to the documentary Mariella Fuller is a Swiss/Lebanese photo/journalist who originally went to…
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Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has To Travel
Diana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers…
