Monday, April 29, 2013

Twitch: Hot Docs 2013 Review: WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS

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Hot Docs 2013 Review: WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS
Apr 29th 2013, 15:00

The title is a mouthful, but is a entirely appropriate and poetic link to the film's subject matter, the bizarre Vegas-in-the-Ozarks refuge that is Branson, Missouri.Nestled in the heart of hillbilly country, the town of 10,000 plays home to millions of visitors a year looking for some heartland-style entertainment. The doc does a great job in finding a wide variety of representative Bransonians that entertain the busloads. It's here that the names Presley and Lennon have a different context than they might on the coasts, where bib panted yokels joke about Democrats and the 5-6-7-8 of song and dance numbers ring out to horrendously orchestrated takes on Village People hits.Directors AJ Schnack and David Wilson manage to capture some of the inherent beauty of the...

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