documentary
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Killing Patient Zero: the true story behind all the myths.
As a a gay men of a certain age who personally survived the brunt of the AIDS pandemic but lost a husband and far too many friends, Canadian filmmaker Laurie Lynd’s excellent new documentary is way overdue. Like most people we had bought the story that the whole epidemic was started by a promiscuous…
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project: taping the TV News 24/7 for 30 years
Matt Wolf’s take on the oddball story of Marion Stokes has you wavering between the feeling that she was either a chronic compulsive obsessive hoarder, or that maybe her actions were the result of her ability to see the enormous value of recording the present for the future. African/American Stokes who had been born…
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P. David Ebersole & Todd Hughes tell Queerguru why their new film on design legend is so overdue
Husband and husband filmmakers P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes talk with Queerguru on the eve of the US Premiere at @DOC NYC of their new film House of Cardin – Pierre Cardin documentary : a profile of an unsung design legend that is long overdue
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Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer : an excellent telling of a dispiriting tale
Mark Landsman’s excellent documentary makes for depressing viewing . As he details the rise and fall of the scandal rag The National Enquirer he reminds us how the obnoxious self-serving Trump was one of the main instigators of the whole ‘fake news’ syndrome decades before he squirmed his way into The White House. The…
