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If you’re trying to understand today’s amoral political landscape, Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary about dirty trickster Roy Cohn explains a great deal. In 1973, when brash young real estate mogul Donald Trump met Roy Cohn, one of New York’s most ruthless and powerful power broker, Trump was completing the Grand Hyatt Hotel near Grand Central Terminal.
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Where’s My Roy Cohn? presents Trump’s origin story. Most people have heard of Roy Cohn. Most people know to link his name with Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s. Most people even know to modify Cohn’s name with “evil” and “mendacious” as well as “arrogant” and “Satanic.” But few know now why those adjectives apply to Donald Trump’s role model.
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Actually, unless your head has been buried in sand for the past decades, you probably won’t find the information revealed in Kevin Keating’s 2005 documentary particularly surprising, but the film certainly provides a credible summation of news reports and pointed analysis of the legacy of New York City’s former mayor. And, it is particularly relevant at this moment in our American history.
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The Brink — a documentary portrait of Donald Trump’s propagandist and chief strategist Steve Bannon — is an essential chronicle of one piece of the mess that got us here, a cautionary tale of one kind of vile bastard to keep an eye out for next time… and perhaps a last-gasp attempt by its subject to demonstrate his relevance and importance.
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Documentarian Michael Moore has been called a muckraker, prankster and populist prophet for his political propaganda films (“Roger & Me,” “Bowling for Columbine,” “Where to Invade Next”), designed to elicit an emotional response. “Fahrenheit 11/9” references the date on which Donald Trump became 45th President of the United States.
Read moreThe recent furor about Oskar Eustis’ open air production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York City in which Caesar
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Anthony Baxter’s You’ve Been Trumped serves as a preview of what America’s international profile will be like if Donald Trump wins the White House. The documentary reveals the real Donald Trump. It was relevant when it was released in 2011. It is relevant still. As you may have assumed, You’ve Been Trumped is about the Donald’s manipulations of the law and elected officials — in this case, to have his way with Scotland’s Menie Estate, a the environmentally protected tract of land in Balmedie, just north of Aberdeen. Trump’s projected golf course will destroy the fragile biosphere and wildlife habitat along the scenic coast of Scotland. The effect will be devastating, but Trump is intent on dodging all restrictions and protests, including those whose families have occupied this region for longer than anyone can remember. Watch this film before you vote, and share it with others.
Read mores you may have assumed from its title, You’ve Been Trumped is about Donald Trump — or, more specifically, it’s
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