fiveFilms4freedom

If you cannot get to the BFI Flare Film Festival on London’s Southbank (shame on you!) then the nice people that organize the event are actually giving  you a chance to watch five short movies at home free of charge. The BFI have got together with The British Council to launch fiveFilms4freedom, an online mini … Continue reading

Flashback Friday : Rufus Wainwright’s Opera HADRIAN from 2018

  On October 13, 2018, the Canadian Opera Company presented the highly anticipated world premiere of Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor. The opera recounts the epic love story of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his young lover, Antinous. Erased by history, their story is reclaimed for the 21st century by its creators in a … Continue reading

Flawless Fassbinder Slays as Macbeth

If William Shakespeare was still around to pick up his royalty checks he would have made more than a wee fortune from Macbeth alone.  It’s been filmed almost 70 times already, with three versions being released this year alone.  Out of all of these, the one due to hit US screens next month could be … Continue reading

Florence’s annual bloody brawl that seems more than a tad homoerotic

  Calcio Storico which must qualify as one of roughest competitive sports ever is also one of the World’s oldest and has been played exactly by the same tough rules in Florence,  Italy for the past five centuries.  Once every year neighbors become rivals, and local Tuscans become gladiators and split into four teams as they wage a no-holds-barred battle for the soul … Continue reading

Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival 2022

  With so much focus on COVID these days essential funding for the treatment of HIV and. AIDS has been badly affected.  It may be less in the headlines but the epidemic is far from over. An estimated 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV, and 15% of them don’t know it.  … Continue reading

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