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The British Guide to Showing Off
United Kingdom, 2011, 97 min.
A colorful, exuberant salute to Andrew Logan, the founder of the "Alternative Miss World Contest", a flamboyant, gender-bending beauty pageant which has run in Britain since 1972. A joyful celebration of creativity and difference.... more
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The Story of Film:An Odyssey
United Kingdom, 2011, 180 min.
The history of cinema gets a long overdue reorientation in this epic documentary series by the avid and engaging Mark Cousins. Tracing the evolution of film styles not only across the decades but across the globe, Cousins unearths countless undiscovered or misplaced treasures and talks film with the... more
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The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni
Lebanon, 2011, 68 min.
Beautifully conceived and expertly edited, this playful documentary uses a wealth of clips from Egyptian star Hosni's films to explore the iconic actress’s screen image and shed light on the Arab world’s most popular cinema.... more
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Unfinished Spaces
Cuba, 2011, 86 min.
Masterfully interweaving art, politics and history, this spellbinding doc recounts the secret history of a little-known architectural marvel, commissioned as a showpiece art school by Fidel Castro, but then deemed “decadent” when he was forced to throw in his lot with the Soviet Union. ... more
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