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Who is Glenn Dunks
Glenn Dunks is an award-winning freelance writer, critic and festival programmer, focusing on film, the arts, and travel who's riginally from Melbourne, Australia, but currently based in New York City. On this website you will find assorted links and other work of mine as well as blog posts on assorted topics. Click here for more. If you would like to contact me about anything including work commissions please contact me at
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- Right now I have no sense of humour about this. I'm sure you worked hard on your ironic tweets or Facebook jokes, but I ain't laughing.
- On one hand, I hope to see people get active these next four years. On the other hand, I worry many will concede. If Trump can win...
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- Clinton losing many swing states by a margin smaller than the third party votes. @ and @ should be ashamed.
- Never have the confines of a big city felt more necessary for minorities. Never have these communities felt more threatened.
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Tag Archives: Documentaries
‘Tab Hunter Confidential’
This review was originally published on Same Same. What famous Hollywood actors might we be seeing documentaries about in 40 or 50 years’ time discussing how they kept themselves in the closet for fear of losing out on a career … Continue reading
A Film is a Naked Director
It’s impossible for Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person to not be taken in by audiences as above all a time capsule. Emerging in 2015, 40 years after its initial completion due to legal and personal wrangling, the … Continue reading
Lawrence Johnston’s Latest Buzzes Bright with Neon
It takes a special filmmaker to do what Lawrence Johnston does. There are certainly no Australian documentarians working today that I can think of doing what he does. He takes subjects of such a niche and specialised variety and treats … Continue reading
The Troubled Musical Tribute to ‘Amy’
This review was originally published by The Film Experience. Given what director Asif Kapadia was able to accomplish with the otherwise (to me) uninteresting world of vroom vroom speed racing in Senna, logic would dictate that when handling a subject … Continue reading
Trainspotting with Stations of the Elevated
I have been lucky in the last 12 months to have been able to see Wild Style, Beat Street, and Style Wars on the big screen. They are all exceptional films in their ways, and especially when viewed together they … Continue reading
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Through a Lens Darkly Offers Insight, but Little Art
Thomas Allen Harris’ Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People feels more like an element of an art exhibit more than a stand-alone film. It’s unsurprising to learn that it is adapted from a book … Continue reading
Buying and Selling in Ukraine
The necessity for and the corruptibility of modern political activism is portrayed with beautiful formal imagery and slick editing in Ukraine is Not a Brothel. An Australian and Ukrainian co-production is directed by Kitty Green – whose only previous credit … Continue reading