documentary
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ONE NIGHT STAND
Once a year a group of manically creative theatre ‘luvvies’ set themselves the seemingly impossible task of creating and performing four brand new 15 minute musicals in a mere 24 hours. And all the name of Charity. This deliciously wonderful new documentary was the result of fly-on-the-wall camerawork that filmed the whole harrowing process. Completely…
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THE DESERT OF FORBIDDEN ART
When Igor Savitsky was working as an artist recording all the ‘finds’ in the Archaeological Excavations in the desert region of Uzbekistan in the 1950’s he used all his spare time to paint. However when his work was quickly dismissed as rubbish by a leading artist back in Moscow he gave up trying to create…
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CRAZY HORSE
Frederick Wiseman’s stunningly photographed documentary is an up-close look behind the scenes at one of Paris’s most famous nude revues ‘The Crazy Horse’, and also at many of the bare behinds that inhabit the place. His camera rolled freely around the entire Club where uninhibited beautiful European girls seemed to be permanently in a state…
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JEWS AND BASEBALL : AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY
An intriguing documentary that traces how a Jewish presence on the baseball field and in the stadium bleachers evolved over the years. For someone like me who could write what I know about the game on a post-it, and who is hardly an authority of American Judaism it was quite an eye opener …..although there times…
