Top Ten German Gay Movies
Since it produced one of the world’s first ever explicitly gay films called ‘Different From The Others’ back in 1919, Germany has been at the forefront of making really good LGBT movies. They are usually very sensual with a penchant for really hot looking men but all with highly original and compelling plots. Here then … Continue reading
Two unmissable World Premieres at TRIBECA 2024 about the lives of queer women
Having their World Premieres at the 2024 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival are two movies about queer women you will not want to miss. First comes RIPE from directing duo Kerry Furrh and Olivia Mitchell, set in rural Spain, it follows a tumultuous summer romance between an American and a Catalan teen. … Continue reading
Viktor and Viktoria : the 1933 classic German film re-released
Hollywood has always had the habit of taking a successful European movie and ‘Americanizing’ them, often with very questionable results. In this movie’s case they were last in line as at the same time Reinhold Schünzel was directing Viktor und Viktoria in Germany in 1933, he was also shot a French-language version of the … Continue reading
Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel
Waxie Moon is an outrageous gender-bender burlesque queen whose raison d’etre is as a lanky mustached performance art diva striding around her personal kingdom in Seattle in raunchy outfits on dangerous high heels. She is evidently ‘a very big thing’ in the capital of Washington state, something that is very evident is this oddball movie with … Continue reading
When Edith’s Bells Toll
The Edith in the title of this movie is the creation of German actor/writer/director Ades Zabel who has a quite a cult following in Berlin’s BKA Theater where ‘she’ usually performs with her Company in full drag. In this micro-budget comedy Edith and her two best friends Brigitte “Biggy” Wuttke (Biggy van Blond) and Jutta Hartmann (Bob … Continue reading