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Review of We Come as Friends (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Aug 2015

Sees Sudan as the epicenter of neocolonial competition between the US and China, and can already see it's about to lead to more war…

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Review of How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 11 Aug 2015

Provides a leisurely, insightful history of documentaries that parallels the filmmaker's biography, done in the style he championed, by Les…

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Review of The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Jul 2015

Strongest when reveals her innovations in musical style and marketing, weakest when it strings together anecdotes…

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Review of A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 11 Jul 2015

Russell embodies history of Southern rock, with roots proudly showing…

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Review of Mala Mala (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Jul 2015

Fascinating, absorbing, sensitive documentary. . .guided through the trans community in Puerto Rico…

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Review of Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 07 Jul 2015

Film allows for viewing the full extent of the Nat Lamp comedy empire, with rapid-fire montage of…

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Review of Cartel Land (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 02 Jul 2015

Captures the positives of [organized vigilantes'] grassroots community organizing, as well as their far scarier prejudices that can lead to…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 28 Jun 2015

A tribute and less an exposé-although it is that, too ... One of the few who comes off well here is Tony Bennett, ever a gentleman…

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Review of Amy (2015)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 28 Jun 2015

A tribute and less an exposé-although it is that, too ... One of the few who comes off well here is Tony Bennett, ever a gentleman…

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Review of Love & Mercy (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 04 Jun 2015

Shifting from tortured way Brian made beautiful music in the '60's, it becomes a lovely and compelling love story, propelling the film to appeal…

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Review of Brothers in Arms (2003)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 04 May 2015

Tellingly, [John] Kerry is a much more compelling speaker during a 1970s protest rally than in the contemporary footage, where he carefully…

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Review of Democrats (2014)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 23 Apr 2015

Anything but a dry lesson in political compromise, inspiring verité doc is a thrilling, suspenseful, scary, and astonishingly intimate view…

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Review of Woman in Gold (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 13 Apr 2015

Crusty octogenarian and exasperated man team up to wring justice from 50-yr-old wrongs. . .with charged interplay…

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Review of Metamorphoses (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Apr 2015

Just like in Handel's day (the operas Semele and Alcina), sex takes center stage for both gods and mortals…

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Review of Gaby Baby Doll (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Apr 2015

Director Sophie Letourneur challenges the audience with two leads who resist an open embrace, but moment by moment, these polar opposites meet,…

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Review of Métamorphoses (2014)

By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 03 Apr 2015

Just like in Handel's day (the operas Semele and Alcina), sex takes center stage for both gods and mortals…

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Review of Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 16 Mar 2015

Strong class consciousness, a thriller [and] character study of men quixotically driven to a desperate act [with] chases through picturesque…

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Review of Deli Man (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 06 Mar 2015

More than just a nostalgic meal at shrinking number of genuine Jewish delis in N.America, latest delicious foodie doc where restaurants illuminate…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 28 Feb 2015

Indignant and impassioned, mostly manages to get behind the headlines and ahead of the news on the issue of sexual assaults on campuses, but…

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Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Nora Lee Mandel (401) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 28 Feb 2015

Indignant and impassioned, mostly manages to get behind the headlines and ahead of the news on the issue of sexual assaults on campuses, but…

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