January 14, 2013
We recently added “The Imposter” to the DBRL collection. The film played at the True/False Film Festival in 2012, and currently has a rating of 96% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
In 1994, a thirteen-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive and well thousands of miles away in Spain. He tells a story of kidnap and torture when he returns. While his family is excited to bring him home, all is not quite as it seems. Is the boy really who he claims to be, or is he an imposter giving the family false hope for their child’s return?
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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November 16, 2011
We recently added Tabloid to the DBRL collection. The film was shown earlier this year at the Ragtag and currently has a rating of 92% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. It is the latest film from Errol Morris, who has also directed other documentaries such as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
In the late 1970s, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney became a tabloid staple when she kidnapped her former beau, a Mormon missionary, and tied him to a bed to ‘deprogram’ his religious beliefs-by having nonstop sex with him. Director Errol Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams led her across the globe, into jail and onto the front page.
Check out the film trailer for more info. Morris also has a new book out called Believing Is Seeing.
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June 27, 2011
We recently added Cropsey to the DBRL collection. The film has been shown at numerous film festivals and currently has a rating of 87% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:
Growing up in Staten Island, Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio and other kids had often heard the legend of the escaped mental patient ‘Cropsey’ who would come out late at night and snatch children off the streets. Urban legend was turned upside down in the summer of 1987 when a little girl with Down syndrome disappeared from their neighborhood. Two filmmakers delve into the mystery behind five missing children and the real-life bogeyman linked to their disappearances in their hometown of Staten Island, New York.
Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.
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