LETTERS TO JACKIE : REMEMBERING PRESIDENT KENNEDY

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy  Oscar winning Director Bill Couturié (‘Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt’) has produced this tribute to the late President using some of the myriad of letters of condolences his widow received in the months after his death.  They had a lot to choose from …. … Continue reading

LETTERS TO JULIET

Sophie, a young gauche American woman is in Verona for a pre-honeymoon trip (?) and is abandoned by her fiancé, a budding chef who prefers hanging out in kitchens and wine cellars than doing the usual tourist sites.  She comes across a wall where desperate women attach letters to Juliet (Shakespeare’s one) bitching about how … Continue reading

Levan Akin on AND THEN WE DANCED

  When Swedish/Georgian Filmmaker Levan Akin‘s queer romance And Then We Danced premiered at Cannes Film Festival it received a 10 min standing ovation : since then it has picked up numerous Awards around the globe. was Sweden’s Official Submission for the Acadamy Awards and has just played at Sundance Film Festival. Now on the eve of its release in the US … Continue reading

LEVI KREIS : Sand, Stars and Guitars @ Palm Springs

    One of QUEERGURU’s favorite queer Tony Award Winners LEVI KREIS is heading to perform at the Palm  Springs Cultural  Center next month.  Singer/songwriter Kreis won his Tony as  Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet but has appeared in other Broadway Shows such as Don’t Let Go, One Red Flower: Letters from ‘Nam, … Continue reading

Leviathan

Award-winning Russian director Andrey  Zvagaintsev’s new epic movie opens to the dramatic tones of a Phillip Glass prelude as the camera scans over the desolate sight of a remote small fishing community that looks like it may have seen better times. It is on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and its almost deserted coastline … Continue reading

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