queertiques
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MARILYN AT 100 : NY’s Film Forum Celebrates with a Series of some of her finest movies
Queerguru’s Senior (polite word for OLD) Editor is getting too obsessed with age, and keeps bringing up significant celebrity birthdays to make him feel better about living life as a Senior. He points out that Dame Shirley Bassey is 89, Dame Vanessa Redgrave is 89, Dame Judi Dench is 91, and Eve Maria Saint…
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Queerguru reviews ‘MOLLY’ a short queer romance from Brit filmmaker Darius Shu
Queerguru first came across Brit queer filmmaker Darius Shu back in 2017 when he deservedly won the prestigious Iris Prize for his short movie Queer Parivaar. He’s not just been very busy since then, but extremely successful, as he now has some 26 Awards for the whole body of his work (plus lest we forget,…
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Jeffrey Schwarz’s ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ : World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING was….. and still is … the most controversial queer film ever made. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink, and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
