2013
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FRANCES HA
Frances Ha is a mess. The rather charming thing is that she is the only one who doesn’t see that. She’s a 27 year awkward and gangly young woman living in New York whose headset has never moved on from being a college student. She sails through her disparate life without a steady job, or…
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THE EAST
Does the end ever justify the means? If agitprop is acceptable, where do we draw the fine line when it melds into environmental terrorism? This gripping new thriller which pitches us all against the inequities of large industrial conglomerates who are poisoning and polluting both us and our planet raises these questions, although the network of…
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Behind The Candelabra
Steven Soderburgh’s gloriously wonderful biopic would have horrified his subject Mr Showmanship …. if he had still been alive. Liberace was the most flamboyantly outrageous camp superstar pianist ever, who in the 1950’s & 1960’s was the highest paid entertainer in the World, but who had unbelievably spent his entire life in the Closet. He and…
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India Blues
This very edgy film about two gay men exploring their relationship in real time is a bold experiment from Greek filmmaker George Markaris (transplanted to Berlin). With very little dialogue this largely improvised piece is in eight different segments that cover the whole spectrum of these two young men’s experiences together. They cover Pain, Lust,…
