Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTwo years ago we reviewed Sarah Fodey’s excellent doc about how in the late 1950’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police invented the ‘Fruit Machine’ to rout out homosexuals. This inept piece of technology didn’t work at all but it didn’t stop the RCMP and the Canadian Military from having a witchhunt for decades to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe Duplass Brothers started out originally producing low-budget mumblecore films, before progressing on to some really good comedies such as Safety Not Guaranteed and The Skeleton Twins. Now in what is seemingly like another 180 turn they have produced a four-part bio-doc on trans pioneer Elizabeth Carmichael for HBO. Mind you there are a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 2019 the UK’s Channel 4 TV Network screened The Making of Me, Three years in the making it was a refreshing straightforward look at the lives of nine very different people as they transitioned. Not only did it serve as a very sympathetic record of each of their journeys, which were undertaking with … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOne of three World Premieres at this year’s Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney Australia is a truly delightful feel-good road movie, The debut feature from queer Greek filmmaker Stelios Kammitsis is one of those romances you are never sure will work, but the journey is so worth it anyway. It all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAt the end of the 1960’s the openly gay famed Italian opera and movie director Luchino Visconti was finally ready to film his take on Thomas Mann’ s novella Death In Venice. The story is of an elderly composer who travels to Venice for health reasons where he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty … Continue reading