biography
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The Wolfpack
This is such an unlikely story of seven siblings who were raised in the heart of New York’s Lower East Side by a tyrannical father and subservient mother who only allowed them to venture outside the front door of their apartment once or twice a year throughout their childhood, that it at first seems like…
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Limited Partnership
As the dust settles down on the historic decision of SCOTUS to pave the way for same-sex marriage to be legalised for all Americans in every State some commentators still consider we achieved so much in a short time. That is probably because what is in their mind as the starting point was when the…
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Nan Goldin : I Remember Your Face
The best thing about Sabine Lidl’s captivating documentary on the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin is that she so perfectly captured the brutal honesty of both the woman and her work. Since the 1970’s Goldin has been photographing unfiltered raw shocking images of addiction, desire and sexuality but unlike her peers these were not of models…
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Amy : the story of the late great Amy Winehouse
The great British soul queen Amy Winehouse burned so bright with her extraordinary voice belting out her songs fuelled with so much of her personal anguish and love in an era when most other music was blandly manufactured, and it’s still difficult to take on board that she eventually burned herself out. In Asif Kapadia’s…
