documentary
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WISHFUL DRINKING
This is Carrie Fisher’s take on own her life to date: highly edited and mined deeply to extort as many laughs as she can from stories that must have seemed anything but funny when it actually happened. The daughter of movie star Debbie Reynolds and hit crooner Eddie Fisher whose traumatic marriage, divorce and re-marriages…
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GAINSBOURG : AN HEROIC LIFE
Some 10 years after his death in his native France singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is evidently still considered a legend and an icon. This startling new movie based on first time director Joann Starr’s own graphic novel traces Gainsbourg roots when he was then just Lucien Ginsberg a young mischievous Russian Jewish boy growing…
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SENNA
One cold January evening K & I are two of just five people waiting in line at Sundance Film Festival for a Press Screening for ‘Pariah’, whilst the line next to us is heaving and bustling with far more people than the Cinema will hold. We check our schedules to see if we have made…
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LIMELIGHT (Documentary)
I was really drawn to this movie cos I wanted to see what I had missed out on way back then when I should have been one of the Party People. In the early ‘80’s as a Brit living in London when I did visit NY I did get to enter a very scary meatpacking…
