queertiques
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Man In An Orange Shirt
Patrick Gale’s brilliant two-part story loosely based on his own parent’s marriage of compromise is by far the best part of the BBC TV’s excellent Queer Britannia series that screened in the UK earlier this year. The Man in The Orange Shirt are beautiful tales of love across two interconnected films highlighting the very…
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When Edith’s Bells Toll
The Edith in the title of this movie is the creation of German actor/writer/director Ades Zabel who has a quite a cult following in Berlin’s BKA Theater where ‘she’ usually performs with her Company in full drag. In this micro-budget comedy Edith and her two best friends Brigitte “Biggy” Wuttke (Biggy van Blond) and Jutta Hartmann (Bob…
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In Louboutin’s Shoes
Filmmaker Michael Waldman and his crew trailed the shoe designer Christian Louboutin for a whole year to make this flattering documentary on the man behind the world’s most expensive and highly sought-after shoes. Louboutin’s beginnings may have been humble but from the moment he turned his attention to designing shoes, his life has been anything…
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The Mess He Made
Worlds Aids Day seems the most perfect time to watch this thought provoking short movie from filmmaker Matthew Puccini. It’s the story of Jude who goes to a walk-in Clinic in a suburban strip Mall to have an HIV test. Actually throughout the story the word HIV is never mentioned , but it is very…
