October 26, 2011
We recently added My Kid Could Paint That to the DBRL collection. The film is directed by Amir Bar-Lev who also directed The Tillman Story and currently has a rating of 94% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by ’60 minutes’ suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial – the burden of proof placed squarely in their lap. Is Marla a child prodigy or an innocent victim of a hoax?
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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August 3, 2011
We recently added The Red Chapel to the DBRL collection. The film played at the True False Film Fest in 2010, and also won the World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
Combining the muckraking spirit of Michael Moore with the confrontational comedy of Borat, The Red Chapel is a one-of-a-kind documentary that reveals the injustices of North Korea with a hilariously dark wit … a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves “The Red Chapel”, pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. This stunt is led by the acerbic director Mads Brügger, and assisted by Simon Jul and Jacob Nossell, two performers of South Korean descent. Constantly shadowed by their guide, Mrs. Pak, they fake allegiance to Kim Jong-il and hope for “One Korea.” Only Jacob is allowed to speak his mind. Suffering from cerebral palsy, his halting speech is impossible to translate, so he insults his socialist hosts and receives smiles in return … an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian nightmare.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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