documentary
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Joan Rivers : A Piece of Work
The opening shots of “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” are of an extreme close up of Joan’s face, without makeup first thing in the morning. This so succinctly sets the tone for this exhilarating bare-all movie that documents a roller-coaster year in the life of this comedic tour-de-force. Joan allowed the filmmakers complete access…
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8 : THE MORMON PROPOSITION
On November 4th 2008 the joyous news of Barack Obama’s historic victory being elected the 44th President of the US was tinged with great sadness for most gay men and women as on that same day as Californians, by a small majority, voted to overturn their State Supreme Court ruling that had permitted same sex…
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THE WINNEBAGO MAN
In 1989 the Winnebago Company set out to make a series of informational films about their famous RV’s, and hired Jack Rebney a respected broadcast journalist, to write and present them. By the second day of filming the crew realizing how volatile Mr. Rebney was as every time the filming broke down or Rebney called…
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WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
This powerful new documentary by Davis Guggenheim (Oscar Winner for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’) contends that the American educational service is failing, and failing badly. Something we have heard many times before but usually from rabid aspiring politicians bandying around their own distorted dogma whilst seeking to get one over their opponents. However Mr. Guggenheim is…
