queertiques
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Boston’s Wicked Queer screens a 4K restoration of Silas Howard’s seminal debut BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
The only real downside of the queer canon of cinema is that to often films disappear from view before we’ve have a chance to enjoy them. It’s the reason we give kudos to some of our favorite Queer Film Fests like Boston’s Wicked Queer who always program a few excellent movies from our recent…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ARMANI AND THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN FASHION’ fascinating piece of social history about the rise of Armani, Gucci & Versace
A certain kind of magic happens when the worlds of ambitious gay men and alluring, equally ambitious women collide, never more so than in the designer fashion world with male designers and their supermodel friends and Hollywood muses. Armani And The Birth of Italian Fashion, a documentary by John Maggio, traces the rise of a…
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Filmmaker Elliot Tuttle wins his fight to get his highly controversial ‘BLUE FILM’ released intO US movie theaters
Here’s the first teaser trailer of BLUE FILM, a new movie by Eliiot Tuttle that has faced significant controversy and festival rejection (including Sundance and SXSW) due to its provocative subject matter, which includes an empathetic portrait of a pedophile. The film centers on a camboy whose client is revealed to be a former teacher…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews BERNSTEIN’S WALL the story of the music Maestro
I was introduced to Leonard Bernstein’s work in my mid-20’s (a while ago now) when a friend gave me an ‘Essential Bernstein’ CD; I’d only ever seen snippets of ‘West Side Story’ up to that point. It was a CD I listened to often at the time and continue to now when the mood takes…
