queertiques
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The Fruit Machine : two entirely different queer films with the same name
Two years ago we reviewed Sarah Fodey’s excellent doc about how in the late 1950’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police invented the ‘Fruit Machine’ to rout out homosexuals. This inept piece of technology didn’t work at all but it didn’t stop the RCMP and the Canadian Military from having a witchhunt for decades to…
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The Extinction of Fireflies : a real dud of a film
The only way a stage drama works as a movie is when it is filmed as is, and in the theater. Or the playwright can be persuaded to rewrite/adapt it, especially for the screen for as a different medium it requires different scripts. Actor turned writer/director James Andrew Walsh did neither of these and…
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Enfant Terrible : the story of queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Enfant Terrible is a perfect name for this unsettling biopic about the queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmmaker Oskar Roehler spares no punches in telling the tale of this outrageous egomaniac who treated everybody in his life so vilely and in a manner that could not be justified by the fact that his films…
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I Am Syd Stone : a coming out story
This Canadian feel-good romantic queer comedy/coming out story started its life as a short film that had a very successful reception in 2014. So actor turned writer/director Denis Theriault converted it into a Web Series which we then viewed as a feature film at the OUTshine Virtual Film Festival in Miami. Syd (Travis Nelson)…
