biography
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Regarding Susan Sontag
The writer/philosopher/political activist/filmmaker Susan Sontag gained both a reputation and a notoriety for her controversial work very early on in her career which stuck with her until her untimely death just aged 71. This new HBO documentary by Nancy Kates seems to deliberately set out to be a tribute to someone the director is clearly…
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Advanced Style
Five years ago Ari Seth Cohen took to the streets of Manhattan armed with his camera looking for old ladies. Not just any elderly dears but photographing fashionable women in their ’70’s, ’80s and beyond having being inspired by his own grandmother who made him appreciate senior style icons who life live to the fullest.…
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SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK
Swiss Oscar-Nominated Director Christian Frei’s new documentary is his well-meaning attempt to investigate the power of love and how to survive once you lose it. With the involvement of Dr Helen Fisher PhD a Biological Anthropologist and Professor at Rutgers (and the author of 5 books on ‘romantic love’) Frei follows three love-lorn people as they…
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Vincent : A Life In Color
If you have been on one of the many daily Chicago River cruises that takes you through the heart of the city at any time during the past 14 years the chances are that you have seen Vincent P. Falk. From the start of summer season on Memorial Day until way into October he is…
