dramatized real-life
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The Broken Tower
An obscure and difficult to watch movie about an obscure and difficult to read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was mere 33 years old. In his short career…
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KAWA
This is an old fashioned coming-out story in which a 40 year old married man and father of two finally accepts his sexuality but by trying so hard to please everyone, no-one ends up happy at all. Based on an autobiographical novel by acclaimed New Zealand novelist Witi Ihumaera (‘The Whale Rider’) that the author held back from…
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Fantabulosa
The late great Kenneth Williams could easily be described as Britain’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Both men were celebrated classical trained actors who worked with all the major stars of their day, but they actually found their own fame with their outrageously camp and genius comic humor which made them both much loved national treasures. They were also…
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Mississippi Damned
This rather harrowing narrative about an extended black family in the 8os’ & 90’s in semi rural Mississippi was an inspired choice for the opening movie of ‘O’ Cinema, Miami’s newest edgy Art House Theater. A deeply disturbing debut film from writer/director Tina Mabry, which is even more disturbing on reflection when I discovered after…
