Sundance
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SUNDANCE 2012
RWD’s take on some of the very best (and sadly a couple of the worse) movies from this year’s SUNDANCE FESTIVAL and hopefully (!) most of the good ones will hit your screens later in the year. Probably not your local Multi-plex but at the Art House/Indie Theater near you. Bethann Hardison is an African…
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THE BENGALI DETECTIVE
This ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time…
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CIRCUMSTANCE
This coming-of-age story tells of two teenage girls, who are best friends, dealing with all the restrictions of growing up in Iran today. The girls are exploring their emerging sexuality as they become part of Tehran’s underground party scene. When an older brother straight out of drug rehab becomes a religious zealot and even joins…
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GUN HILL ROAD
Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx after a lengthy spell in prison to discover that Angela (Judy Reyes) his wife is distant, to say the least, and his son Michael (Harmony Santana) is now a transgender woman and known as Vanessa. None of this sits well with headstrong Enrique who views these changes…
