queertiques
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Nowhere : a queer Colombian/American ill-fated love story
Kleenex alert for this queer Colombian/American touching movie of young love that gets tested to breaking point by the US Immigration authorities. This is story of two young gay Colombians, Adrian (Miguel González) and Sebastian (Juan Pablo Castiblanco) who landed themselves their first jobs after college in NY. The film starts with showing us…
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AILEY: the life of a troubled genius
Filmmaker Jamila Wignot’s new documentary of modern dance auteur, the tortured genius Alvin Ailey makes for such hypnotic viewing. With a combination of audio interviews with the man himself and some breathtaking archival footage of his early performances, she gives an intimate portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of the universality of the…
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The Most Beautiful Boy In The World …….all grown up
At the end of the 1960’s the openly gay famed Italian opera and movie director Luchino Visconti was finally ready to film his take on Thomas Mann’ s novella Death In Venice. The story is of an elderly composer who travels to Venice for health reasons where he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty…
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Sundance 2021 : FLEE the traumatic true story of a queer Afghan & his escape to freedom
Sundance 2021 : Day One. Although we are missing movies on the big screen and sharing the camaraderie of watching them with other industry professionals , we literally are enjoying being in the comfort of our own home, and not having to shell out an arm and a leg to be in Park City at…
