Recently Added Films

	Date Added/ Length	Ratigs IMDB/ MY	Genre/ Tags	Plot	Notes
Parenting Across Racial Difference Details	8/2/2020 5:59:05 PM/ 13 mins	9	Documentary; Short Race; family	“I have white privilege, but I have the knowledge of what it is to have a black son,” Jay Caroli pondered this seeming contradiction in his family’s reality. “And that doesn’t give me any pass on my whiteness,” he continued. His wife, Sharon Caroli, weighed the cost benefit analysis that has plagued parents of Black children for decades, no centuries: Do I speak out loudly against the hate and risk the backlash on my family? Or do I stay quiet in order to maintain safety in one of the whitest communities in the nation? And if I choose the safer option in the short term, what world will greet my children when they reach adulthood and step beyond the threshold of our safe home? For the Caroli family and so many others, these questions have no simple answers.	Sharon is my daughter; Jay my son-in-law; Manny and Lili my grandchildren.
Doors Cut Down (En malas compañías) Details	8/5/2020 8:20:26 PM/ 17 mins	7.3 7	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance; Short	A school boy hangs around a mall in order to pick up older men and have sex in the public toilets. When his English tutor teaches him anal sex he is opened up to new experiences despite being caught by his disapproving father. When he meets a 18 year old he goes to the toilets only to be caught by security and charged. Despite his parent's disapproval he finds this makes him dedicated to one relationship but the sexual anonymity of the toilets is a constant lure for him.	Great fun. I relate.
Patrik, Age 1.5 Details	8/5/2020 9:02:48 PM/ 103 mins	6.9 6	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance family	Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.	An over-the-top feel good movie. A little to cute by half for this old curmudgeon.
Sam Jay: 3 In The Morning Details	8/6/2020 7:54:04 PM/ 64 mins	4.7 5	Comedy	Comedian and "Saturday Night Live" writer Sam Jay serves up fresh takes on relationships, travel nightmares, the audacity of white people and more.	While at times I was amused; but I never felt her to be "funny." Very black, lesbian. I couldn't relate.
Vail 2020 Dance Festival Digital Edition Details	8/7/2020 12:14:45 PM/ 88 mins		Dance	Full video
Tchaikovsky in Love Details	8/8/2020 10:48:21 PM/ 8 mins	8	Dance; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	This short film is adapted from the ballet sequence in Ian Woodward’s full-length film “Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky”. The dance-drama reveals for the first time that Tchaikovsky’s popular “Romeo and Juliet” Love Theme is not about a teenage boy and girl in love…not even about a girl. Filmed in Russia and England, the dance film features the Serbian National Ballet soloist Lloyd Petchey as the composer and, as his pupil, the up-and-coming young dancer Rowan Shone who has starred with the English National Ballet in their London production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Set to the music of the famous Love Theme, the sequence is choreographed especially for the film by Yat-Sen Chang, former leading dancer with the English National Ballet.
Love Song: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Tchaikovsky Details	8/8/2020 11:22:39 PM/ 30 mins	7	Ballet/Dance; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	Sensational biopic that reveals for the first time the heart-breaking story behind Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet which spawned the world's most famous love theme.	"Love Song is based on life-long, ground-breaking research by Tchaikovsky aficionado and filmmaker Ian Woodward who reveals for the first time the heart-breaking true story behind the creation of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet which gave the world one of the most famous love themes ever written. The facts are presented in biopic form. All the characters depicted in the film actually existed, although some moments have been fictionalised to fill-in gaps where details are scant or non-existent. The result is Love Song: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tchaikovsky. A cinematic first that will rock the classical music Establishment. The filmmaker's detective work into Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture Romeo and Juliet meant that for many years he held a secret bombshell...that although the world's most famous Love Theme has been used in hundreds of films, TV shows and commercials, usually during that moment when one character first spots their true love, it is NOT about a teenage boy and girl in love - not even about a girl" Written by Ian Woodward
Taxidermia Details	8/13/2020 8:02:14 PM/ 91 mins	6.9	Comedy; Drama; Horror; Queer Themes/Interest	Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Details	8/20/2020 12:57:11 AM/ 51 mins	10	Music	Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade (Russian: Шехераза́да, tr. Shekherazáda, IPA: [ʂɨxʲɪrɐˈzadə]), Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights). [Wikipedia]
Scheherazade Details	8/20/2020 8:28:39 PM/		Ballet/Dance; Music
Black and White Ballets Details	8/28/2020 12:34:22 AM/ 97 mins	9	Ballet/Dance	Black and White Ballets is a treat for all fans of contemporary dance. The Nederlands Dans Theater's reputation is formidable in any event, but there's also a tradition in the Netherlands of producing modern dance for television and video media with enormous expertise, as owners of the superb Springdance VHS collections will testify. The advent of DVD has of course upped the ante considerably in terms of detail and overall production values, with this disc being a fine example of what can be achieved. The stark, monochromatic staging of this sequence of dance pieces is overlaid by a choice of music that encompasses Mozart, Bach, and Webern, but it's the opening item, set to the first part of Steve Reich's Drumming, that is the most compelling, displaying as it does the power of dance to extrapolate from music rather than just accompany it. In terms of features, the disc is pretty spartan, with a stereo-only soundtrack and no extra features worthy of the name, but the overall result is nevertheless highly recommended. --Roger Thomas	Very fine.
Rodgers And Hammerstein's Carousel: Live From Lincoln Center Details	8/30/2020 2:59:33 AM/ 150 mins	8.2 9	Musical	Transferring the setting of a brooding Hungarian play, Carousel, to a remote fishing village, shaping their vision around themes of brutality, poverty and disappointment, Rodgers and Hammerstein composed some of the most glorious music ever written for the stage.