This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal … Continue reading
The movie followed three photo/journalists in far flung parts of the world as they went about their work. The fact that they were all located in dangerous regions made it more fascinating, and that they all happened to be women added a certain frisson to the documentary Mariella Fuller is a Swiss/Lebanese photo/journalist who originally went to … Continue reading
Diana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers … Continue reading
Once a year a group of manically creative theatre ‘luvvies’ set themselves the seemingly impossible task of creating and performing four brand new 15 minute musicals in a mere 24 hours. And all the name of Charity. This deliciously wonderful new documentary was the result of fly-on-the-wall camerawork that filmed the whole harrowing process. Completely … Continue reading
When Igor Savitsky was working as an artist recording all the ‘finds’ in the Archaeological Excavations in the desert region of Uzbekistan in the 1950’s he used all his spare time to paint. However when his work was quickly dismissed as rubbish by a leading artist back in Moscow he gave up trying to create … Continue reading