Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBergdorf Goodman has been a New York institution for the past 111 years. Stretching a whole block of Fifth Avenue between 57th & 58th Streets it is the high temple of fashion’s elite that has the very best for the very well-heeled Manhattans. Right from day one the Store has only carried the cream of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHeadfort the delightful rambling boarding school in the heart of the countryside 50 miles outside of Dublin, is the sort of educational establishment most of us would have given our right arms to spend our childhoods in. The cameras spend a year there for this affectionate portrait by Irish documentarian Nease Ni Chianain which for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBack in 1969 an unknown singer-songwriter called Rodriguez was discovered performing in a dive bar in Detroit and was immediately offered a deal to record two albums. His music bore more than a passing resemblance to that of Bob Dylan, but his first album ‘Cold Fact’ received critical acclaim but only zero sales, and when … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOne cold January evening K & I are two of just five people waiting in line at Sundance Film Festival for a Press Screening for ‘Pariah’, whilst the line next to us is heaving and bustling with far more people than the Cinema will hold. We check our schedules to see if we have made … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSeymour Bernstein is probably the most talented classical pianist alive today, yet very few people have ever heard of him. He was at dinner party a couple of years ago and seated next to the actor Ethan Hawke who was immediately impressed that this octogenarian musician seemed to understand all his anxieties and self-doubts much … Continue reading