documentary
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The First Monday in May
The annual Met Gala mounted by the Costume Department of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the real social highlights for all the most famous faces in fashion and culture. It is an extravagent and outrageous event that because of its crazy excesses, is the hottest ticket in town for fashion designers,…
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Our Last Tango
The Argentinean couple who are acknowledged as the finest exponents of tango, and who managed over their 40 years of dancing together from the streets of Buenos Aires to the Broadway stage, share two major passions. The first is for the dance that they literally ate, slept and breathed every moment of the day, and…
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M.O.B. Wives of Richmond
This rather muddled and affectionate profile tells part of the story of group of outrageous outsized African/American middle-aged women in Richmond Virginia who have adopted the personas of Drag Queens. Centered around Anelica O. Mark-Harris their large-than-life queen bee, these women bedeck themselves out in flamboyant camp dresses and top their look off with a wig…
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City of Gold
Filmmaker Laura Gabbert’s very affectionate portrait of the L.A. Times celebrated food critic Jonathan Gold is as upbeat and sunny as this Pulitzer winner’s own writing. The movie’s focus is very much on how this native Los Angeleno has an inexhaustible passion for rooting out unlikely culinary delights and then singing their praises, and we…
