Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis debut feature film by young Brit writer/director Daniel Grasskamp is a coming-of-age story that is sparse in both plot and dialogue. It’s the tale of a introverted 17 year old photography student Cat (Jodie Hirst) whose very lonely life centers around her cat who is not just her only friend but also the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s been some sixteen years since his last film the Oscar Nominated Little Children but writer/director Todd Field is back with Tár and what looks like a real humdinger. Cate Blanchett stars as renowned (and highly fictional) composer Lydia Tár, in the film regarded as the first-ever female chief conductor of a major … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe are not certain of how much of Matt Fifer is in his debut feature film Cicada which he wrote, co-directed and starred in , but it has such a solid ring of authenticity that it must be based on his life story. Fifer plays twenty-something- year-old Ben who has just broken up with … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlmost 40 years ago before our TV screens were over-run with excessive trivial drivel that, without a single hint of irony, is called Reality TV, there were The Louds, ‘An American Family’. Documentary filmmaker Craig Gilbert had seduced this seemingly near perfect nuclear family into allowing his film crew to set up cameras all around their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlthough set in contemporary London when it was filmed in 2007, ‘Clapham Junction’ (named after the area where most of the action is centered) has a decidedly old-fashioned feel to it’s plot. And a very negative one at that. Commissioned by the UK’s Channel 4 Television Channel to mark the 40th Anniversary of the decriminalisation … Continue reading
