documentary
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Censored Voices
On June 5th 1967 the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were amassed on Israel’s borders threatening to annihilate the country. However six days later, Israel won an historic victory, conquering lands and tripling its size. In the immediate weeks after this several different kibbutzniks got together to discuss and record their feelings. They had no interest in making another victory…
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Seymour : An Introduction
Seymour Bernstein is probably the most talented classical pianist alive today, yet very few people have ever heard of him. He was at dinner party a couple of years ago and seated next to the actor Ethan Hawke who was immediately impressed that this octogenarian musician seemed to understand all his anxieties and self-doubts much…
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Mink Ear Muffs For Everyone (on Liz’s List anyway)
Christmas is a time for giving : especially if it is something from N.Y’s favorite Department Store Bergdorf Goodman which has been a New York institution for the past 111 years. Stretching a whole block of Fifth Avenue between 57th & 58th Streets it is the high temple of fashion’s elite that has the…
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Chemsex
Chemsex is an unidentifiable issue to most people but after watching this excellent but scarily sobering new documentary from filmmakers Max Gogarty and William Fairman of VICE you will see how this fast-growing phenomenon is deeply affecting a certain part of the urban gay community. It’s about gay men ‘slamming’, which is evidently the more…
