Generation Wealth: Is Greed Good?

Generation Wealth feels like it’s the culmination of filmmaker Lauren Greenfield’s career over the past two and a half decades. For the film, which premiered this past January at Sundance, the filmmaker revisited so many of her previous photograph and interview subjects.  The film also ties into the 2017 book of the same name as well as a similar photo exhibition depicted late in the film. High school probably wasn’t the best time to talk…

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McQueen: Tragedy in Fashion

Drawing on videos and interviews, McQueen tells the story of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen. The fashion designer was best known as Alexander McQueen.  His story may best personify the rags-to-riches story.  It can be said that his own life wasn’t without his own tragic shortcomings. McQueen grew up in East London’s working-class Stratford neighborhood with five other siblings.  Nobody could have ever predicted that a shy child would go onto become one of the…

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