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Tag Archives: Real-life story
Shooting Stars (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The Best Years of Their Lives
“Shooting Stars”, which is currently available on Netflix in South Korea, is a standard biographical sports drama film which plays and then delivers as much as expected. While any good sports drama film needs to do more than that in … Continue reading
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Tagged Athelte, Basketball, Coming-of-age drama, Freindship, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Her 5th Room (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): She simply needs to have her own private space…
South Korean documentary film “Her 5th Room” is a small but intimate personal story about one middle-aged woman who simply needs to have her own private space. As closely and sensitively observing her struggle for privacy and independence, the documentary … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Family, House, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Jim Henson: Idea Man (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): A man behind the Muppets – and more
Ron Howard’s new documentary film “Jim Henson: Idea Man”, which was released on Disney+ in last week, is an affectionate tribute to Jim Henson, who was the main creative mind behind many delightful things including “Sesame Street” and “The Muppets”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Puppeteer, Real-life figure, Real-life story, TV
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For Love and Life: No Ordinary Campaign (2022) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): So they step forward…
Documentary film “For Love and Life: No Ordinary Campaign”, which was released in Amazon Prime in last week, presents an extraordinary story about a bunch of people trying to make some change in the American healthcare system for themselves as … Continue reading
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Tagged Activist, Documentary, Husband and Wife, Real-life figure, Real-life story, Terminal Illness
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Soup and Ideology (2021) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Eating together as family despite all that
Documentary film “Soup and Ideology”, which I belatedly checked out yesterday, presents a modest but intimate personal story closely associated with the dark past of the Korean history during the 20th century. As its Korean Japanese director tries to understand … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Family, Korean Japanese, Mother and daughter, Real-life figure, Real-life incident, Real-life story
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The Beach Boys (2024) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The history of the Beach Boys
Documentary film “The Beach Boys”, which was released on Disney+ on two days ago, looks over the history of the Beach Boys, one of the legendary American bands during the 1960s. While it is fairly informative to anyone not so … Continue reading
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Tagged Band, Documentary, Musician, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The ups and downs in her life
Documentary film “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg” attempts to delve into the dramatic life story of Anita Pallenberg, a German-Italian model/actress who has mostly been known for her complicated personal relationship with the Rolling Stones. It is often … Continue reading
Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): The story of one album art design studio
Documentary film “Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnonsis” presents the story of one British album art design studio which gave us some of the most iconic album covers of all time. Although I do not know that much about … Continue reading
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Tagged Design, Documentary, Music, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Tchaikovsky’s Wife (2022) ☆☆(2/4): The Passion of Tchaikovsky’s Wife
They say misery loves company, but, after watching Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Tchaikovsky’s Wife”, I am wondering whether Russians love misery more than it wants. Here is a relentlessly grim, solemn, and miserable film which does not have much sense of human … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Composer, Homosexaulity, Husband and Wife, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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They Shot the Piano Player (2022) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The disappearance of Francisco Tenório Júnior
How much I actually came to learn about Francisco Tenório Júnior? That was a lingering question left in my mind after I watched animated docudrama film “They Shot the Piano Player”, which was mainly about the real-life disappearance and presumed … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation, Disappearance, Docudrama, Musician, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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