documentary
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MAKING THE BOYS
‘Making the Boys’ is a fascinating look at the 1968 groundbreaking play ‘The Boys In The Band’, and a profile on its writer and creator Mart Crowley. The breakthrough play about a Birthday Party full of funny, but self-hating gay men was the very first off-Broadway play written by an openly gay man which was…
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Being Elmo
A look behind the man behind the puppet who is one of the most cherished characters watched by millions of kids every day on Sesame Street. This fascinating story is of how Kevin Clash went from awkward teenager growing up in dilapidated area of Baltimore and ended up as part of Jim Henson’s team…
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DRESSED
This is a documentary about one young man following his dream to become a fashion designer and show his Collection at New York Fashion Week. He’s Nary Manivong who has never even worked in the industry at all, and is totally unqualified, unprepared and ridiculous underfinanced. All he has is the $5000 that he has…
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‘THE TAQWACORES’ & ‘TAQWACORE:THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM’
The intro to my Blog says when it comes to movies my preference is ‘the weirder the better’ and I guess this movie definitely falls into that category. It’s title is an amalgamation of ‘taqwa’ an Islamic word denoting love & fear for Allah, and ‘core’ for hardcore as in punk music i.e. its about…
