queertiques
-
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews My Boyfriend (El Fascista.) how politics can ruin your love life
Politics is increasingly polarised these days. Extremist news media, websites, and online social-media and other algorithms feed us what we want to consume – all with the aim of keeping us fearfully engaged for longer and longer, thereby satisfying advertising clients. This has led to an explosion in radical politics, in particular the rise of…
-
PORELESS a wee short film about the pressure in life to be calm and flawless screenng at TRIBECA
We first came across filmmaker Harris Doran two years ago when KOKOMO CITY movie that he produced premiered at OUTshine Miami’s queer Film Fest. It was the trailblazing debut doc from local filmmaker D Smith and the story of how they got blackballed from the music industry when they started to transition. It was one…
-
Queerguru reviews “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” about one of our favorite TWIN PEAKS stars
Sometimes with movies, it’s all about timing. Certainly, in the case of Richard Green‘s heart-tugging documentary “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady,” focusing on actress and filmmaker Catherine Coulson and her final days working on Twin Peaks before her untimely death. She also worked regularly with her great friend the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, known…
-
Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘E.1207’ the life and work of the remarkable Irish furniture designer EILEEN GRAY
Around 1921, at the age of 43, the Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray, whose partners had previously all been women, met the much younger, penniless, architectural critic Jean Badovici and fell in love. They decided to build a house together in the south of France. Although their hideaway, perched on the side of a cliff…
