Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide79 year 0ld Rose Hartman has a reputation as an iconic photographer for her stunning intimate photographs of the famous celebrities and fashion legends that she has been shooting for over the past three decades. She also has a very definite reputation with practically everyone who knows her as being a throughly unpleasant pushy person for reasons … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideErika Cohn’s very sympathetic profile on Khoulud Al-Faqih who became the first woman appointed to be a Judge in a Palestinian Shari’a Court in the West Bank bravely attempts to uncover some of the mystique and secrecy that cloaks this Islamic culture. Most of the time she succeeds exceptionally well, but on some occasions, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGracie Otto’s affectionate documentary on the charismatic and adventurous English theater and film producer Michael White is a movie long overdue. Despite his enormous contribution in a prolific career that spanned three decades he is as Anna Wintour succinctly put it, ‘the most famous person that you’ve never heard’. Ms Wintour also so accurately summed up his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMiami Beach is one of those cities that undergoes enormous transitions every single decade at a pace that is hard to keep up. In the early 50’s this sleepy seaside resort became a popular vacation destination for blue collar Jews who wanted a break from their tough lives in New York. It later morphed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVeteran Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine is one of those rare breed of actors that we would happily wait in line just to hear her read the Telephone Directory out loud, in fact there are parts in this rather tepid contrived comedy that we wished she had being doing just that. It wasn’t the fact that this … Continue reading
