Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker 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 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSome days if feels like the Lockdown has empowered people to create so many new online possibilities we may never want to leave our houses ever again. Today the Webby Award-nominated PBS Short Film Festival returns for a ninth year from Monday, July 13 – Friday, July 24 to all PBS and station digital platforms, including … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesUS Filmmaker Travis Mathews is a professional voyeur. His documentary movies all focus on gay men and their intimacy and are very raw and explicit. His most successful project to date is ‘Interior Leather Bar’ where he, and a somewhat obsessed James Franco, pieced together what they thought maybe the content of the chunk of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt would seem that when LGBT men and women come out of the closets as gay to their family in China today, the parents then rush into the closets themselves. According to this new documentary from Italian filmmaker Sophia Luvarà even liberated Chinese parents who ‘accept’ their children’s sexuality have an immediate concern in that the news … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis well-meaning documentary from Netflix takes a look at how the UK’s rapidly changing drag scene is surviving the Covid lockdowns. However, somewhere along it mixes its message so much and it eventually trails off into confusion. The film starts out acknowledging the hardworking local drag queens who have always been the mainstay of … Continue reading
