All posts tagged "Biography"
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SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME – JFF 2018 Review
St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 7pm USA • English Director: Sam Pollard Documentary:...
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RBG – Review
RBG is a delightful, inspiring documentary on the Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, giving us the backstory the...
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DARKEST HOUR – Review
Gary Oldman gives an amazing performance as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright DARKEST HOUR, a riveting drama...
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DOLORES – Review
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union, the person who coined the phrase “Yes, We Can”...
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MAUDIE – Review
Sally Hawkins gives a winning performance as Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis in the biopic MAUDIE. Despite suffering...
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A QUIET PASSION – Review
Early in A QUIET PASSION, we see the young Emily Dickinson being expelled from a women’s college for...
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NERUDA – Review
Pablo Larrain gained attention with American audiences with his stunning drama JACKIE, about Jackie Kennedy immediately after the...
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LISTEN TO ME MARLON – The Review
This year has already seen several extraordinary feature-length documentaries, many of which were pulled from the popular arts....
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Review: ‘Il Divo’
What constraints should a filmmaker put upon themselves in the act of creating a biographical film? In my...
