documentary
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(A)SEXUAL
I guess the byline of this movie could be ‘Everything You Need To Know About Not Having Sex’ , but unlike Woody Allen’s movie that I paraphrased this from, this documentary is no laughing matter. It focuses on David Jay a very earnest handsome young man in his 20’s who after he ‘came out’ to…
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SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA & AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE
I have always had a bucket list of movies that for some reason or enough I have never got around too yet but am determined to watch before I leave this earth. Swimming to Cambodia has been on that list for far too long, and when I finally saw it tonight with an over-excited Spalding Gray…
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Searching For Sugarman
Back in 1969 an unknown singer-songwriter called Rodriguez was discovered performing in a dive bar in Detroit and was immediately offered a deal to record two albums. His music bore more than a passing resemblance to that of Bob Dylan, but his first album ‘Cold Fact’ received critical acclaim but only zero sales, and when…
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THE FLAT
After Arnon Goldfinger’s 98 year old grandmother Gerda had died, he and his family descended on the Apartment in Tel Aviv where she had lived for over 70 years. Grandmother was a compulsive hoarder so Arnon and his siblings and Hannah their mother had their work cut. When Gerda and Karl her husband had re-located…
