Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the story of Younes a young illiterate Algerian Moslem immigrant living in Paris and making a quick franc from selling things ‘off the back of a lorry’ when he meets a nice guy who’s in trouble, and happens to be Jewish, so Younes changes from being a bad boy into a good boy … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAnd Inordinately Nondescript’ would complete the title of this movie about a 11 year old boy coming to grips with his father who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 which I think was meant to have us reaching for our Kleenex instead I was checking out where the nearest exit was. Oskar the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen this movie first surfaced I quickly dismissed it as something that only people with a penchant for baseball and/or Brad Pitt would be want to see, and I have no interest in either. Mr Pitt is a pleasant enough actor and has been fortunate to have been in some very good movies, but I’ve … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEncountering the work of the revolutionary dancer choreographer Pina Bausch for the very first time reminded me yet again of the great cultural abyss I live in at times, and if it hadn’t been for watching Wim Wender’s enchanting documentary, I would have missed knowing about her completely. Ms. Bausch once described the human impulse to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe most satisfying aspect of actor Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut movie is that although it is about the spiritual conflict of one woman as she drifts between skepticism and religious faith it never ever takes sides as she strives for the higher ground. We first see Corrine as a child when she responds to her … Continue reading
