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She may be one of the most iconic faces of the 1960s, but chances are you don’t know all that much about Dame Lesley Lawson, aka Twiggy. Director Sadie Frost aims to correct that with Twiggy, an intimate behind-the-scenes documentary about the (in)famous model/actress/singer/daughter/girlfriend/wife/mother — who, it turns out, is awfully down-to-earth for someone who found worldwide fame so young.
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What a charming and captivating time capsule about a woman who embodied her time and then transcended it. Director Sadie Frost’s Twiggy is, of course, a delightful memory trip back to the swinging ‘60s in London and the ascendency of working class teenager Lesley Hornby to the heights of fashion fame. As gamine faced, slim and androgynous Twiggy, she broke all the rules for what women should look and act like. But because Twiggy is so singular in her authenticity and unabashedly positive nature, the film become a stirring portrait of something else entirely.
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Twiggy is director Sadie Frost’s appealing, charming documentary about the 1960s fashion icon known as Twiggy, whose super-skinny form and androgynous looks transformed how the fashion industry thought models were supposed to look. Prior to Twiggy, British fashion models came from the upper classes and were slim but curvy, tall and elegant young adult women. This 16-year-old girl from working class London, who spoke with a Cockney accent, changed all that.
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Sadie Frost’s Twiggy is a great watch for fashion fans and, more specifically, Twiggy fans. I liked learning more about her and seeing that she was who I thought she was–funny, self-deprecating, and without airs. I feel like, to paraphrase one of the people interviewed for the film, that her genuine spirit is what helped catapult her to stardom. She might have been one of the world’s most iconic fashion models, but she still remembered her working class roots.
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As engaging and straightforward as its title luminary, British director Sadie Frost’s documentary Twiggy skillfully explores this multitalented model, film, theater, and television star. Through candid interviews with Twiggy, her daughter Carly, husband Leigh Lawson, numerous friends, and others with whom she worked, a personal and professional profile emerges of a multifaceted, largely unaffected, vivacious talent. With a factually oriented approach to Twiggy’s life, Frost balances Twiggy’s good luck at 16 to be dubbed “The Face of ‘66” by London’s Daily Express and thereafter catapulted to stardom with her dedication and hard work for succeeding decades.
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Diane Warren is an artist who even early in her career was called “the most important songwriter in the world”. So far, Warren has been nominated for an Oscar fifteen times in five different decades, and in 2022 garnered an Academy Honorary Award. She is part of the fabric of popular music in a way that transcends genre and gender, with a list of accomplishments that include being the first songwriter, male or female, in the history of Billboard magazine to have seven hits by seven different artists on the charts at the same time. Many of her melodies have a longevity not shared with the films in which they appear. She is quirky, straightforward, mouthy, curse-y and is always herself, whether she’s on the red carpet, attending the Governor’s Ball, or visiting the rescued farm animals living at her self-financed animal sanctuary in Malibu.
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story was an interesting but a bit of a tough watch, yet May Pang deserves to tell her story as the lover of global superstar John Lennon who was at the time married to his second wife, Yoko Ono. Pang’s side of the story is narrated throughout the docufilm as she chronicles her 18-month relationship with the star before he abruptly just never comes back to their apartment and ends up returning to Ono for a sum of five years with their son before his untimely murder.
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It was much more than a weekend. The Lost Weekend: A Love Story is May Pang’s record-straightening personal account of her 18-month-long romance with John Lennon while he was separated from Yoko Ono. It’s a fascinating immersion in the early 1970s when Pang, a New York native and music fan, went from working at Apple Records at age 19 to being asked to be John and Yoko’s personal assistant. Engaging and seemingly forthright, Pang recounts witnessing arguments and Ono’s controlling behavior such as instructing Pang not to forward calls from Lennon’s estranged young son, Julian, who is also interviewed in the film.
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Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll — they’re all present in The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, the revelatory documentary from filmmakers Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels, about former music executive May Pang’s experiences with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the 1970s. But this isn’t a salacious, Behind the Music-style expose. Rather, it’s a thoughtful, loving reminiscence about the formative role the relationship played in Pang’s life – and its lasting impact.
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