2016
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La La Land
The wonderful astonishing opening sequence of a full scale choreographed musical number on a flyover in the middle of an L.A. traffic jam sets the pace for what is clearly one of the most exhilarating movie musicals for years. La La Land is only the third film helmed by 31 year old Damien Chazelle (he…
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Nocturnal Animals
Ex fashion guru Tom Ford may start his new movie in the vacuous and pretentious wealthy L.A. art world where everyone is obsessed with appearances, but the other two strands of this multi-layered story take them, and us way out of our comfort zone. After her latest rather outrageous Opening featuring obese naked middle-aged female…
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On Christopher Street : Transgender Stories
For the past two years New York award-winning celebrity photographer Mark Seliger has been taking photographs that tell the stories of transgender people who live in his West Village neighborhood. Seliger said he would approach people he met on the street with a very simple pitch: “I’m working on a body of work and a…
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20th Century Women
Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie. It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus…
