Tagged: juan recommends

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Paris Is Burning

Jennie Livingston chronicles the lives of some of the Black and Latino gay youth in NYC who’ve been turned out of their homes, ostracised by their communities, and left to fend for themselves. They learn how to survive, how to gain and express absolute self-confidence.

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Louie – Season 1

Louis C.K. stars as Louie, a stand-up comedian and a newly divorced father of two girls living in New York City, going through the daily situations people face in their lives.

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Take Shelter (2011)

Despite its flaws, Take Shelter is definitely a movie worth seeing if only for the great acting performances of Michael Shannon and the ever present Jessica Chastain.

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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)

An anti-social, punk-rock computer hacker and a political journalist solve a 40 year murder case in the original Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Incendies (2010)

Incendies is a telenovela overlaid a veil of political and religious unrest, with a twist that sets things in motion and makes the film horribly haunting.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm – Season 8

Very few shows arrive to their 8th season in the best shape, but Curb Your Enthusiasm still retains its high quality for the most part of the season and should be regarded as one of the best comedy shows of all-time the day it comes to an end.

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Melancholia

The planet Melancholia is coming nearer, as sisters Justine and Claire deal with their strained relationship.

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Drive (2011)

Nicolas Winding Refn presents a unique and unconventional masterpiece with his gripping film about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.