documentary
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The Incomparable Rose Hartman
79 year 0ld Rose Hartman has a reputation as an iconic photographer for her stunning intimate photographs of the famous celebrities and fashion legends that she has been shooting for over the past three decades. She also has a very definite reputation with practically everyone who knows her as being a throughly unpleasant pushy person for reasons…
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The Guy With The Knife
As I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary.…
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Coming Out
Unless you are gay or fit in somewhere along the queer spectrum you will never ever really be able to appreciate the traumas of coming out of the closet about your sexuality in this heteronormative world. There is simply no one way of doing this, and when young filmmaker Alden Peters decided it was…
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The Royal Road
Jenni Olsen’s cinematic essay based around the Camino Real which was once the main route from California to Mexico is a very esoteric nostalgic look at the rapidly changing landscape between San Francisco and Las Angeles. Part history lesson, part tribute to all the Missions that line the route, and part recounting of an impossible…
