THROUGH A LENS DARKLY- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “This documentary examines how black photographers have used the medium since its inception as an implement for social change. The film presents examples from Anthony Barboza, Deborah Willis, Glenn Ligon, Carrie Mae Weems and other notable figures.”
8/30/14- Weak reviews. TRDB.
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THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “Set in a luscious art-nouveau apartment house in Brussels, this dizzying thriller begins with a businessman coming home to find his wife missing. But as he attempts to unravel the mystery, he finds himself plunged him into a surreal world.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews by critics and audiences as well. TRDB.
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SHADOWS FROM MY PAST- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In 1940 Gita Weinrauch Kaufman escaped from Austria with her immediate family the day they were to be transported to Dachau Concentration Camp. More than 50 years later, she returned to Vienna with her husband and co-director, Curt Kaufman, to ask the question: Is present-day Austria truly different from the country from which she fled?”
8/29/14- Just 3 reviews– 2 up, including today’s NY Times and 1 down. It sounds interesting and I will try to see it. TRDB.
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SECOND OPINION: LAETRILE AT SLOAN-KETTERING-2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The War On Cancer, launched in the early 1970s, set the stage for a massive influx of new ideas in fighting the disease of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, America’s leading cancer research center at the time, was assigned the task of testing an unconventional therapy called “Laetrile” in an effort to curb the public’s “false hope” in the alleged “quack” therapy. Ralph W. Moss PhD, a young and eager science writer, was hired by Sloan-Kettering’s public relations department in 1974 to help brief the American public on the center’s contribution to the War On Cancer. One of his first assignments was to write a biography about Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, one of the Center’s oldest and leading research scientists as well as the original co-inventor of chemotherapy.”
8/29/14- OK reviews by critics and audiences have liked it very much. TRDB.
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THE NAKED ROOM- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The location: a pediatric therapist’s office. The characters: severely depressive child patients and their anguished parents. In Nuria Ibáñez’s fascinating and acclaimed documentary, the austere interior of a Mexico City hospital is the setting for a profoundly moving and educational film.”
8/29/14- I’ve seen 3 reviews- 2 down including the NY Times and 1 up. TRDB.
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LAST WEEKEND- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “A matriarch (Patricia Clarkson) asks her adult sons to visit their gorgeous Lake Tahoe home for a final weekend before she sells it, but it quickly becomes a comical disaster.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews. TRDB.
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THE CALLING- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef’s (played by Susan Sarandon) quiet life is shattered by a series of gruesome murders performed by a religious madman following a deadly higher calling.”
8/29/14- Poor reviews. TRDB.
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LIFE OF CRIME- 2014. Synopsis by Netflix. “After kidnapping a rich property developer’s wife and holding her for ransom, two small time crooks discover that their plan has a major flaw: their hostage’s philandering husband is in no rush to free her from captivity.”
8/28/14- Mixed reviews with some good and some very bad. TRDB.
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I AM ELEVEN- 2014. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Australian filmmaker Genevieve Bailey travelled the world for six years talking with 11-year-olds to compose this insightful, funny and moving documentary portrait of childhood. From an orphanage in India, to a single-parent household in inner-city Melbourne, to bathing with elephants in Thailand, I AM ELEVEN explores the lives and thoughts of children from 15 countries.”
8/25/14- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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TAKE ME TO THE RIVER- 2014. “Narrated by actor Terrence Howard, this engaging documentary centers on the legacy of the Memphis music scene as intergenerational artists — from bluesmen to rappers — are brought together to collaborate on a historic new album.”
9/12/14- Good reviews. TRDB.
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