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Criterion Channel’s POP SHAKESPEARE SERIES: the best reason to stay home tonight
Planning to stay home tonight and there is nothing tempting to watch on TV then Queerguru so recommends Criterion Channel’s online fab Pop Shakespeare collection. After all, every era gets its own Shakespeare, from the genius championed by the Romantics to the Bard who inspired Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier—and the age of…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MYSTERIOUS WAYS a rare queer NZ/Samoan love story
DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons is an Anglican Vicar advocating for change at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER (La bella estate) from Laura Luchetti
Set in Pre-war Turin with Benito Mussolini´s speeches as background, the film shows the journey into adulthood of a young woman from the countryside coming to the city with her brother, in a story held by pins. Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is a skillful and dedicated seamstress, dress and pattern maker working at a…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews SWAN SONG looking at the drama behind the scenes of Canadian National Ballet’s new production
A passionate and moving journey into the mise en scene of a new production of Swan Lake by The National Ballet of Canada and at the same time, a revelatory portrait of a prima ballerina. Canadian classical dancer Karen Kain is the heart and soul behind this documentary. She has been a principal dancer,…
