documentary
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THE GATEKEEPERS
If this was my One Word Review (as opposed to 5 mins.) then I would unhesitatingly describe this Oscar Nominated Documentary by Dror Morah as ‘maddening’. Morah achieved an extraordinary feat in interviewing the six men who have headed up Israel’s very shadowy counter-terrorism agency Shin Bet. This ultra super-secretive organisation reports directly to the…
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OMA & BELLA
Oma and Bella are two warm and feisty octogenarians who live together in Berlin. Oma was originally from Poland and Bella from Lithuania and they both ended up in Berlin separately where they met each after the end of the World War 2 which had annihilated their entire families. They were as Oma said ‘displaced persons without so…
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L’AMOUR
The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has…
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Bob Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
The acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED…
