documentary
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Take My Nose …. Please!
This thoroughly entertaining documentary goes out of its way to reassure us all that cosmetic surgery really is the way to go especially if we want to hang on to our youth just a tad longer than nature cruelly intends we cannot. The film is by an expert on he topic as it is the…
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They Don’t Just Dance : the Afghan tradition of recruiting young boys for sex
It is not often a narrator of a TV documentary makes no attempt whatsoever to hide his disdain of the subject matter, but this is a very notable exception. It’s a profile of Afghan men who act as predators and recruit boys as young as 12 years old to dress up as girls and…
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David Bowie : a look at ‘The Last 5 Years’
A trailer has just been released of David Bowie: The Last Five Years a stunning new documentary with some never-before-seen footage which looks primarily at Bowie’s recordings and release of his final two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar. Directed and produced by documentarian Francis Whately, who also made David Bowie : Five Years in 2013.…
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In Louboutin’s Shoes
Filmmaker Michael Waldman and his crew trailed the shoe designer Christian Louboutin for a whole year to make this flattering documentary on the man behind the world’s most expensive and highly sought-after shoes. Louboutin’s beginnings may have been humble but from the moment he turned his attention to designing shoes, his life has been anything…
