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Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures

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The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading  with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies … Continue reading





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Trying to make light of cancer in movies is never easy and attempts at doing so do not usually make for good box office as last year’s Sundance big hit Me, Earl & the Dying Girl sadly found  out when it failed to find an audience.  This new movie, which is the directorial debut of writer Chris Kelly, and … Continue reading



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