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What It Takes: film en douze tableaux (2018)

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A vegan, bisexual, atheist, civil rights activist singer/songwriter walks into a country/western bar…   An intimate glimpse at songwriting and the balancing act of life versus passion as vegan, bisexual, civil rights activist Sarah Shook and her band of seasoned vitruosos, The Disarmers, head into the studio to record their new album and prove they […]

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Who is Lydia Loveless? (2016)

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WHO IS LYDIA LOVELESS?

Singer/songwriter, alt-country queen, cow punk, hard rocker? The second coming of Hank Williams or Patti Smith? Or just a bubbling cauldron of hormones and emotions holding steadfast to the ideal of keeping rock & roll alive?

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A Dog Named Gucci (2015)

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Justice is a dog’s best friend…   Winner of the 2015 ASPCA Media Excellence Award, A DOG NAMED GUCCI  tells the story of a 10-week old puppy named Gucci who was hung by his neck, doused with lighter fluid, and set afire. Doug James, standing on his porch nearby, heard the puppy’s cries and ran […]

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Every Everything: the music, life & times of Grant Hart (2013)

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A rock & roll Fog of War about Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart.   In marked contrast to COLOR ME OBSESSED, director Gorman Bechard’s risky yet rewarding 2011 Replacements documentary that featured no songs or appearances by its subject matter, his upcoming EVERY EVERYTHING: THE MUSIC, LIFE & TIMES OF GRANT HART doc completely flips the […]

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Broken Side of Time (2013)

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Over a million women have modeling portfolios online. BROKEN SIDE OF TIME is the story of Jane, one of the models who’ve made a career of it. But now 30, and tired of competing with 18-year-olds, Jane realizes what makes her feel most alive is also destroying her.

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What Did You Expect? The Archers of Loaf live at Cat’s Cradle (2012)

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A feature-length Archers of Loaf concert documentary.    Indie rock icons the Archers of Loaf reunited in 2011, and during the course of their reunion tour played two legendary concerts at Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill, NC. Combining in-your-face concert footage along with rare interviews of the band, this film by director Gorman Bechard documents […]

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Color Me Obsessed, a film about The Replacements (2011)

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Kinda Brilliant.  Kinda Dumb.  Kinda The Replacements.   For some aging music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, The Replacements are rock and roll defined. This Minneapolis quartet took a teenage-punk attitude, threw it in a blender with classic and pop rock, and then poured it into a Middle American pint glass. […]

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Friends (with benefits) (2009)

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Best friends Chloe and Owen decide to have no-strings-attached sex. Complications arise…a lot of complications.   Best friends since childhood, Chloe and Owen are both now studying at Yale Medical School. But between classes and work, neither has time for dating, or any interest in one-night stands. So…they become friends with benefits…friends who have no-strings-attached […]

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You Are Alone (2005)

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“We’re gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!” But it’s a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour.

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Twenty Questions (filmed in 1987, released in 2017)

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It’s about life. It’s about death. It’s about everything . . . well, sort of.   Twenty people, from all walks of life, are each locked alone in a room for the length of one 400-foot roll of 16mm film (11 minutes). They are each given the same set of twenty questions, which they can […]

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