Friday, December 2, 2011

Angels In America (2003)


The AIDS epidemic brings together a large swath of disparate characters in 1980s NYC.

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Though it was made for HBO, I still consider this to be a great work of cinema. It's not some simple filming of a stage production. It takes full advantage of all those wonderful things that only cinema can do, and uses them to transport us back to the fearful 1980s. A time when our own President refused to acknowledge a plague that was already laying waste to countless thousands. Not exactly the cheeriest of time periods right? Yet out of this horror, talented artists were able to produce a staggeringly hopeful work. I highly recommend you set aside the 6 hours and take this journey. You won't regret it.

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