documentary
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Harold and Lillian : A Hollywood Love Story
The real-life story of Hollywood back-room couple Harold and Lillian Michelson is the sort of stuff that movies used to be made of. It’s a good old-fashioned true romance made more appealing by the fact that there were such a couple of really such likable people. They were both happy enough being together and just…
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Very Semi-Serious
After watching Leah Wolchok’s fascinating look behind the scenes of The New Yorker’s celebrated Cartoon Department and having this mini crash course into its workings, it makes you have a great deal of respect to all the rather eccentric men (and a few women) whose lives are solely all about getting their ‘funnies’ published in this…
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In The Basement
If you have ever had the slightest impression that generally Austrians can be rather a dour lot, particularly the older generations, then you won’t be at all shocked to meet the ones that filmmaker Ulrich Seidl persuaded to show what they get up to in their own basements. We never really learn if he went out…
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Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words
Triple Oscar Winning actress Ingrid Bergman was an extraordinary iconic movie star who defied both the Hollywood studio system and a rather puritanical press and society to lead the life that she wanted, regardless of the consequences. This new highly intimate look at Sweden’s most famous actress (after Garbo), based on Bergman’s own diaries, home…
