queertiques
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Liam
Dealing with the sudden death of a loved one is tough at the best of times but when you, and he, are in your 20’s, the loss is that much harder to come to terms with. Soon after Isidore Bethel graduated from Harvard and moved to France to studying filmmaking at École Normale Supérieure he received word…
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My Life With James Dean
My Life With James Dean is one of those idiosyncratic French oddball comedies which are very much an acquired taste, which very, fortunately, we absolutely love. It’s the tale of a filmmaker Géraud Champreux (Johnny Rasse) who has been invited to a small Northern town by the local film curator to screen his latest indie film. …
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Queerama
Brit filmmaker Daisy Asquith whisks us through 100 years of homosexuality in England in a tight 71 minutes in Queerama her latest documentary. Combining a real treasure trove of archival footage from extensive vaults of the British Film Institute, with clips from a whole range of LGBT feature films, plus more than a dabbing of vintage…
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To A More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor
To anyone who followed the case of Edie Windsor, an unlikely looking LGBT activist, who took on the might of the US legal system and won, this extremely moving documentary from Donna Zaccaro doesn’t actually reveal anything new about this groundbreaking case. What it does, however, is succinctly put the major facts all together…
