2015
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Seymour : An Introduction
Seymour Bernstein is probably the most talented classical pianist alive today, yet very few people have ever heard of him. He was at dinner party a couple of years ago and seated next to the actor Ethan Hawke who was immediately impressed that this octogenarian musician seemed to understand all his anxieties and self-doubts much…
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The Danish Girl
This may be a thoroughly British take on this very real groundbreaking story, but immediately from the first frame the screen is awash with these muted languid tones of Copenhagen in the first half of the last century, that there is no doubt of where this is all taking place. Einar and Gerda Wegener are…
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Joseph Wilson : Drag Is My Ecstasy
A couple of months ago we stumbled upon a extraordinary and wonderfully exhilarating short movie called “Stance” about ‘drag boxing’ which was set in a Working Men’s Club in London. It literally blew our fishnets off. It was made by Joseph Wilson a 27 year-old Brit filmmaker who is one of the leading figures in the…
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Lord of the Fraud
The main thing about large scale fraud ( apart from the greed) is the sheer audacity, and no-one has more of that than convicted felon Lord Edward Davenport. This new short movie by Vice Media tells the true story of his rags to riches story of this high class confidence trickster. Also known as…
