Queerguru reviews FAIRYLAND an excellent film about a gay dad and his daughter growing up in SF in the 70s and 80s

  Although it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia.  … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews ‘Fanny : The Right To Rock’

  Award-winning Canadian documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart has this knack for uncovering queer stories that we may have heard of, but for the most part, are untold.    She did this beautifully with her affectionate and in-depth look at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male ballet company in ‘Rebels on Pointe’.  … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews Ferzan Özpetek’s NUOVO OLIMPO a passionate queer relationship spread over some 30 years as it struggles to fulfill its potential.

    Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka  [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory.  In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews FIONA CLARK : UNAFRAID an affectionate profile of an unlikely queer icon @Wicked Queer

      Fiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s  Clark captured images of the fringes of the … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews FIRE F-CKING FIRE a short queer story to raise the anxiety level of any single gay man or woman

  One of the best (but scary) shorts screened at Tribeca this year was ‘Fire F*cking Fire’ from queer filmmakers Julia Eringer and Rachel Paulson (who also starred in it).  Its not a horror tale in the conventional sense but one where the dream of a lifetime quickly turns into a nightmare. When Ally  (Rachel … Continue reading

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