Category: 5 min movie guide
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
In her third movie to date writer/director Eliza Hittman has shown a remarkable insight and understanding of teenage angst. Hittman’s sophomore film was Beach Rats a LGBT coming-out story that threw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. It picked up several Awards including a Best Director…
Hard-ish Bodies : a funny film by Mike Carreon
The wonderful TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL have joined the number of cultural institutions who are now putting content up online ….. and in this case it’s FREE. This first short film is such a sheer delight and put a big grin on the faces of all of the QUEERGURU TEAM self-isolating in different places. “Hard-ish…
The Roads Not Taken: the latest film by Sally Potter
The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s films always attract a respectable following with arthouse audiences, but with the exception of ‘Orlando’, none of them have been commercially successful. Several of them, like this new movie, received mixed critical reviews mainly because they are too often considered indulgent and too personal. Like Leo (Javier Bardem) the…
Golden Age : inside The Palace where wealthy Miamians go to retire
Why two young Swiss filmmakers should chose to make their debut documentary on a retirement home for very wealthy seniors in Florida’s Coral Gables, totally escapes me. But this is what they did, and in their intriguing profile they set out to prove that all that glitters is gold one way or another. Aptly…
Hope Gap : when his parents marriage ends Jaime is expected to fix things
Hope Gap is based on the real story of the childhood of writer/director William Nicholson . He had first written it in the form of a play The Retreat from Moscow which went on to win 3 Tony Award Nominations on Broadway. The latter seems very surprising watching the movie adaptation which is now…
