The reason that I sit in a movie theater as often as I do is my eternal hope that every movie I watch will be so near perfect that it will just blow me away. In reality it’s a rarity, but tonight was one such occasion. Watching ‘Bill Cunningham New York’, a wonderful moving and … Continue reading
This is one of those real life stories that you come across now and again that re-affirm your faith in the goodness of (some) human beings. Rocky Braat’s story is especially moving and relates how one very ordinary and regular young American man, who is exceptionally unselfish and wonderfully generous, made a real difference to the … Continue reading
The acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED … Continue reading
For Bobbi Jene Smth a Principal Dancer with the acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, her impending 30th Birthday was going to be the time for big life changes. Most of which were of her own choosing, but very few of them she was about to undertake were going to be executed with a … Continue reading
At first glance the whole concept of a movie that seeks to look at the rather complicated practices of the global financial markets that keep leading us in and out of crisis being written and directed by Terry Jones a member of Monty Python, seems somewhat insane. It is however anything but, as Jones has … Continue reading