Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMartin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLamorna is a small fishing village on the Cornish coast, in the far southwest of England. The expansive skies and landscapes of the area have long been a draw for artists, most famously painters associated with the Newlyn school such as Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings, and Lamorna Birch. It’s relatively unknown even though it is just a mere 13 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn the opening minutes of this powerful documentary we hear a voice that says ‘ we were young, working-class and poor: we were dykes NOT lesbians.” It is a statement of fact but there is a slight edge to it which we take as a warning not to misinterpret who this group of queer women … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThrow aside any expectations that Marly Morrison’s Sweetheart will be an achingly Gen Z teen zeitgeist movie and embrace the fact that it belongs to the classic British genre of sexually awkward teen meets nightmare seaside family holiday. Go with it because that is what makes its humiliating inevitability so sweet. April Jane or AJ … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe rarely see enough work from the queer British ex-pat film maker ANTONY HICKLING who now calls Paris home. So its quite a surprise to us after republishing his short experimental film P.D a few weeks ago that we now find ourselves previewing his latest film ELLA. Set in Paris (of course), Hickling … Continue reading
