documentary
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Undressing Israel : Gay Men In The Promised Land
Gay porn mogul Michael Lucas and his co-director Yariv Moser start their documentary in dismissing some of the widely held misconceptions that people around the world have about Israel. That everyone rides around on camels, and secondly that the country is always at war. But in the next 45 minutes they quickly replace them with…
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HERB & DOROTHY 50 X 50
Herb & Dorothy Vogel were seemingly a very ordinary New York couple. He was a Postal Inspector, and she was a Librarian and they married in 1962, the year after they met and they lived frugally surrounded by cats in a tiny one bed apartment in Manhattan. What makes them extraordinary is since they met…
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HAVA NAGILA : THE MOVIE
Who would a guess that such an inane and somewhat annoying song such as Hava Nagila would have such a wealth of history, and more face lifts than Joan Rivers? Well filmmaker Roberta Grossman, and in her amusing and fascinating documentary she traces how this staple of Barmitzvahs and Weddings went from Ukraine to YouTube…
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SPINNING PLATES
For his new documentary Joseph Levy chose to profile three wildly different restaurants/eating establishments whose proprietors and chefs had one thing in common : sheer passion that could also be perceived as lunacy too. At the top end of the scale was Alinea in Chicago that had just been voted as one of the ten…
