documentary
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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…
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Continental
Malcolm Ingram’s delightful new documentary is ostensibly about New York’s most famous gay Bath House , but is as much the story of Steve Ostrow it’s larger than life founder. Ostrow’s colorful tale is very Runyonesque and makes for fascinating hearing, more so as Ingram seems fit to never challenge any of his more outrageous statements…
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The Final Member : the story of the World’s first ever PENIS MUSEUM
Some 40 years ago someone gave Sigurdur ‘Siggi’ Hjartarson a School Head Teacher in Iceland, a bull’s penis as a joke. It kick-started what turned out to become a lifetime obsession of collecting any mammalian phallus he could lay his hands on ….. it evidently pass the long dark dismal days and nights of Arctic…
