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Buck

Directed by Cindy Meehl Produced by Julie Goldman Released by Sundance Selects USA. 88 min. Not Rated By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already abusive father ramped up the level of physical and emotional abuse on Buck and his brother. Fortunately for the boys, they were placed with […]

Armadillo

Directed by Janus Metz, based on an idea by Kasper Torsting Produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockmann Released by Lorber Films Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 100 min. Not Rated Once upon a time we could easily separate ourselves from soldiers of war. What they were doing, the acts they committed in the name […]

Nostalgia for the Light

  Written, Directed & Narrated by Patricio Guzmán Produced by Renate Sachse Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles France/Germany/Chile. 90 min. Not Rated Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It essentially derives its force from a false remembrance of history. Nostalgia, the longing to return home, is never about a real home, but an […]

Bill Cunningham New York

Directed by Richard Press Produced by Philip Gefter Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 84 min. Not Rated   Bicycling around Manhattan on his 29th Schwinn—the first 28 were stolen—photographer Bill Cunningham is constantly on the look out for the latest fashion trends. He shrewdly realized some time in the early ’80s that the answer is […]

Vidal Sassoon: The Movie

Edited & Directed by Craig Teper Produced by Jackie Gilbert Bauer and Michael Gordon Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 94 min. Rated PG   Vidal Sassoon: The Movie combines the first history of the evanescent art of hairstyling (as both fashion and a business) with the biography of the 20th century’s leading practitioner. There’s […]

Hot to Trot

Ballroom dancers are traditionally thought of as Fred and Ginger, as in Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but they can also be defined as Fred and Fred as well as Ginger and Ginger.