documentary
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EXPORTING RAYMOND
This very funny documentary about one man’s quest to hoist the US’s hit tv situation comedy ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ on an unsuspecting Russian audience could be subtitled ‘Lost in Translation’. Written, directed and starring Phil Rosenthal the creator of the TV show, its about the frustrations of adapting the hit series for Russian TV. Neither…
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Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES an extraordinarily wonderful documentary about ultimate bad taste
This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal…
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Beyond Assignment
The movie followed three photo/journalists in far flung parts of the world as they went about their work. The fact that they were all located in dangerous regions made it more fascinating, and that they all happened to be women added a certain frisson to the documentary Mariella Fuller is a Swiss/Lebanese photo/journalist who originally went to…
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Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has To Travel
Diana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers…
