documentary
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INTERIOR LEATHER BAR
Director William Friedkin claims that he had to take his notorious movie ‘Cruising’ about the gay S&M sub-culture to the Ratings Board on 50 occasions before they would give him a R. Whether that is totally true or not is part of the myth around the over-rated but little seen psychological thriller released in 1980 to…
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VALENTINE ROAD
On February 12th 2008 in E.O High School in Oxnard, a sleepy Californian beach town, one very troubled teenager took his anger out on one of his classmates and shot him in the back of the head twice at point blank. It was the middle of the day and the class were all together in…
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Cutie And The Boxer
Ushio Shinohara was a leading light in the avant garde art scene in post war Japan who in 1969 headed out to New York in 1969 to seek his (international) fame and fortune. He quickly established himself in the burgeoning artist colony in Sotho for both his art and his limitless capacity to drink. Three…
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Blood Brother
This is one of those real life stories that you come across now and again that re-affirm your faith in the goodness of (some) human beings. Rocky Braat’s story is especially moving and relates how one very ordinary and regular young American man, who is exceptionally unselfish and wonderfully generous, made a real difference to the…
