queertiques
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Stand
Opening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving…
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Top Ten Cowboy Movies
Ever since Ang Lee’s earth-shatteringly beautiful ‘Brokeback Mountain’ we have had a thing about cowboys. Just as in that movie when Jack Twist says to Ennis ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’, we cannot stop yearning for a rugged man in spurs on horseback. Or in fact any type of Cowboys, including the ones…
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Women He’s Undressed
Gillian Armstrong’s captivating documentary on three-time Academy Award Winning Costume Designer the larger than life Orry-Kelly starts out with a rather wonderful statement ‘He called himself a hem stitcher, yet he really was a Hollywood Star. In the country he’s come from, that’s bloody amazing, but no-one has ever heard of him’. The country it…
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Everlasting Love
‘Everlasting Love’ is a rather bizarre choice for a title of a movie that is all about lust and other rather gruesome practices, so one can only assume it is meant to be ironic. It is the sophomore feature from Spanish filmmaker Marçal Forés (‘Animals’) and is a tale about cruising for sex, both gay and straight, that carries…
