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"When you want to make movies, you have to be willing to kill your aunt and steal her money", says Menahem Golan in this splendid documentary about the two Israeli cousins who turned the Hollywood industry upside down with over 300 movies produced. The Go-Go Boys tells the story of the rise and fall of Cannon Films, its most memorable hits and the professional and personal breakup of its two founders. (Sitges Film Festival)
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The Go-Go Boys is a documentary about cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who dominated Hollywood in the 1980s with their company Cannon Films, a factory of (mostly trashy) dreams, only to lose everything by the end of the decade. This magnificent and poignant film was made as the antithesis to the entertaining and mocking documentary about Cannon Films directed by Mark Hartley. By emphasising the personal accounts of the two producers, who refused to appear in Hartley’s film, this counter-documentary gains the appeal of a personal story and a portrait of a big dream, and it is charmingly non-judgmental. The Go-Go Boys is a captivating work about how big dreams and ambition can also be a facet of great art.
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