documentary
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ITALY, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT
In 2009 I remembered being totally enamored with an irrepressible young Italian gay couple that documented the struggle of acceptance of gay rights in their Country and being totally horrified about the vitriol and power of the Far Right Political Parties that seem to make the American Evangelistic Conservatives seem like real sweethearts by comparison.…
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC ; THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
This is a feature length documentary on MARINA ABRAMOVIC the celebrated Performance Artist as as she prepared for her major retrospective as Museum Of Modern Art in N.Y. in 2010. Premiered at SUNDANCE 2012 this is reprinted from my Festival Blog. It is a major event for any living artist to be given a retrospective…
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DUCK BEACH TO ETERNITY
Spring Break is a somewhat notorious vacation when college students head to the sun and just party wildly to dawn every day. Its primary aim seems to be one of excess, whether it be alcohol, partying or just sex and cramming as much of all three into one single week. Hard then to imagine what…
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CIRCUS ROSAIRE
Filmmaker Robyn Bailey’s documentary from 2007 plays witness to the sad tale of this ninth generation family of animal trainers as they struggle with the demise of traditional family circuses. British-born wheel-chair bound octogenarian Derek Rosaire Snr presides over his extended family as they scramble to practice their crafts playing any gigs that they can…
