queertiques
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The Boys In The Band : looks as good as it sounds
By all accounts director Joe Mantello has surrounded himself with a superb cinematographer (Bill Pope) and production designer (Judy Becker) and three Art Directors (Kiel Gookin, Annie Simeone and Alexander Wei) to ensure the stunning look of this new adaptation of Mart Crowley’s queer classic The Boys In The Band. With its all…
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RIGHT BESIDE YOU : Wordless eloquence shines
With performances and direction like this you really can make shorts that say it all with few words. This anthology of the longing search for company radiates emotion from the skin of its performers and the luminous situations they find themselves in. Lov Novios de mi Madres (All My Mother’s Lovers) In Los Novios…
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Single Street : where having a baby trumps falling in love
The new Dutch film Single Street (aka Singel 39) which is the movie debut of TV director Frank Krom is labelled a rom-com but is technically not one in the traditional sense. When girl meets boy she is immediately put into the friend zone which is where she stays for the whole length of…
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BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism
Michelle Handelman’s video BLOODSISTERS is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a screening at Outfest Los Angeles Virtual Film Festival right now. It’s probably her most well known project from a whole body of controversial work that explores the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. The film is not merely an in…
