documentary
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Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams’ documentary prompted by the best selling book by Ron Suskind about Owen his autistic son, is probably one of the most inspirational documentaries we will get to see this year. It tells the tale of how Suskind, a Pulitzer Award winning writer with The Wall Street Journal, and his wife Cornelia dealt with…
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Nuts
This is the mostly true story of the larger-than-life J.R. Brinkley who turned out to be one of the country’s biggest and most successful medical charlatans of the last century. Documentarian filmmaker Penny Lane= chose to tell this totally bizarre tale by mainly blending animated visuals with archival footage and using narration by different actors. She starts by…
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Tickled
David Farrier has made a successful career working as a reporter for a small TV Station in New Zealand looking at the weird and bizarre side of life. He thought he found a perfect subject for his program when he came across a website a couple of years ago from Jane O’Brien Media asking for men 18-24…
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Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?
After Saar Maoz an utterly charming 40 year old man served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Army, he was kicked out of the Kibbutz where he had been living with his large extended family for being gay, so he moved to London to begin again and look for the love of his life. Now 18 years…
