Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMade for BBC’s TV august arts program ARENA earlier this year, this piece of sheer cinematic joy has had its name tweaked (for some inexplicable reason) and now courtesy of IFC Films is heading to selected movie US movie theaters this Fall. The new title is a tad misleading as these four of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘THE AMBASSADOR’ is the work of Mads Brugger a Danish documentarian setting himself up as an ‘African Diplomat’ and under the pretense of representing Liberia he settles in the Central African Republic ostensibly to expose widespread corruption but at the same time becoming a diamond drug smuggler. This hilarious and completely compelling movie is about being a con-man … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAccording to most of the people featured in this new documentary the world of antiquarian bookselling is gently standing by watching its own demise. Everyone involved may have a different opinion on its potential survival, but they are all unanimous in who/what is to blame i.e. the internet. In New York from the 1890s to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideExactly why the veteran former supermodel Benedetta Barzini allowed her filmmaker son Beniamino Barrese to make this his very documentary on her is very unclear as most of the time she simply barks at him to F–k Off! At 76 years old and with her well-worn face, it is still easy to see that … Continue reading