documentary
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Budrus
In 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and…
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IF A TREE FALLS : A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
One of the most shocking realizations of this new documentary that looks at the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was that the Authorities response to their initial peaceful protests was to beat, club and unmercifully mace them and generally treat them like murderers when the only physical harm they had done…
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ULTRASUEDE : IN SEARCH OF HALSTON
Halston was the US’s first haute couturier to be taken seriously. From milliner to revered iconic fashion designer in a very short this flamboyant and fun-loving man firmly put his sartorial stamp on everything in the Studio 54 era so that his ‘star’ on Fashion’s Walk of Fame in NY rightly proclaims ‘The 70’s Belonged…
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PINA
Encountering the work of the revolutionary dancer choreographer Pina Bausch for the very first time reminded me yet again of the great cultural abyss I live in at times, and if it hadn’t been for watching Wim Wender’s enchanting documentary, I would have missed knowing about her completely. Ms. Bausch once described the human impulse to…
