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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle class, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, an industrial utopia. The Detroit we know today is an American city so broke that last year half of the street lights in the city’s sparsely populated communities were [...]
We’re all have-a-go chefs at heart, most of us anyway, which is why we’re all capable of enjoying a good cooking show on television now and then, but here is a documentary film that will grab your attention in a way that you never knew gastronomy could. It aired on HBO back in 2011 but [...]
John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done heroin that day, recalling they were “both in shades, and both on f**king junk, and all these freaks around us [...] But it was his scene, that was the problem for me. It was his movie. I was on his territory, that’s why I was [...]
A movie made in social media heaven, Craigslist Joe is all too relevant to our generation. In a sort of coming-of-age, adventure story documentary, our hero travels America depending entirely on the help of the Craigslist network. Find out just how helpful or unhelpful social networks can be to us when this film hits cinemas [...]
Nominated at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals, this new documentary by Australian filmmaker Michael Glowagger has no narration throughout the entire film. It takes place in three countries; Thailand, where women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves, in Bangladesh, where men go to a ghetto of love to satisfy their [...]
There’s a bit of a buzz in the film world about a controversial new documentary, Are all Men Pedophiles?, suggesting that we could be more accepting of adult men lusting after teenage women. Can of worms– open. All over the floor. The self-financed 23 year old Dutch director, Jan Willem Breure, boldly admitted that he [...]
I‘m kind of excited about these videos I found today. By now, you probably know where I stand on beauty culture and body image and so I’ll let some other people do the talking this time round. This first video link is called “Beauty Culture”, a documentary that has been selected to appear at the [...]
Newspapers are always giving us the insider reports but this video gives us a rare glimpse into the offices of the New York Times graphics department. A unique look inside an important aspect of modern media. [http://vimeo.com/39753148 w=600&h=450]
This is a pretty touching short documentary film about the life of a Hollywood’s most famous hand model whose career suddenly took a nose dive after an accident which injured his hand. Directed by Ryan Palmieri.
Far from the gleaming multiplex cinemas most of us are accustomed to, there are places that
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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Who will make the better Gatsby? Can DiCaprio pull off a pink suit as well as Robert Redford did in
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I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly
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If someone ever admits to having never seen The Godfather (it happens more than you would think), I
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It was once known as the “Paris of the West”, the birthplace of the middle
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Chris Zabriskie is the narrator, editor and musical composer of this beautiful short film that
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John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done
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Paris is just one of those places in the world where talented people get together and make magical
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On January 1st, 1976, Hollywood residents woke up to read their famous hilltop sign a little
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I‘m the kind of person that would go to the cinema and watch two movies back-to-back (because
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I‘ve been clinging onto these old photos of an Automat diner in New York in the 1930s,
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One of my favorite things in life is finding someone who hasn’t seen one of my favorite
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