queertiques
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Adam & Steve The Second Coming : a preview of a sequel to the hit 2005 Rom Com
When Craig Chester‘s debut movie, ADAM AND STEVE, was released 20 years ago, he was hailed as a New Queer Cinema icon. It was by no means ‘the queer movie’ of the time, as this was the same year that Brokeback Mountain burst onto our screens and picked up 8 Academy Award Nominations (winning 3). …
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the restored version of THE BUSINESS OF FANCY DANCING a queer Native American indie drama
My Film Title of the Year award goes to The Business of Fancydancing, although it’s in fact a re-release of Sherman Alexie’s 2002 Native American indie drama. What a genius title! Alexie, a Native American himself, examines the lives of a few characters around the Spokane tribe. The chief protagonist is Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams),…
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Queerguru reviews ‘I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE ‘ a memoir of queer Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková
Making a film just from photos is no easy task, and takes a great risk of whether it will succeed. Like in the case of Czech writer/director Klára Tasovská, who opted to make a memoir of Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková’s life and work through some 3000 prints. She may not be a household name to…
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L.A’s OUTFEST Queer Film Fest is BACK from the dead! so here are Queerguru’s Top Picks of Must See Movies
This time last year, when OUTFEST LA’s Queer Film Fest should have been celebrating its 42nd Anniversary, it had to shut up shop with a melodrama breaking out into a very public, nasty spat between its Executive Director and its Board.OUTFEST was dealing with a financial deficit that had left it with just one employee…
