Sundance
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MARINA ABRAMOVIC ; THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
This is a feature length documentary on MARINA ABRAMOVIC the celebrated Performance Artist as as she prepared for her major retrospective as Museum Of Modern Art in N.Y. in 2010. Premiered at SUNDANCE 2012 this is reprinted from my Festival Blog. It is a major event for any living artist to be given a retrospective…
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
This movie was unquestionably the biggest breakout hit of SUNDANCE 2012. I will fess up that it hadn’t even entered my radar until everyone (that I respected) at the Festival was raving about it, and so much so that the Organizers thankfully scheduled an extra P + I Screening so i could join a…
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Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES an extraordinarily wonderful documentary about ultimate bad taste
This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal…
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Another Happy Day
I can only suppose that writer/director Sam Levinson (some of director Barry) chose the title for his debut feature movie with a real sense of irony. He does such a good job convincing us that the embittered family in thecentre of this drama has never had a single happy day, let alone another one! Mr. Levinson…
