Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesYou may have to keep pinching yourself that this very intriguing TV mini-series is based on a true story as there are times when it simply belies belief. It’s the stuff of fairy tales when a King falls in love with a commoner although it’s usually with a member of the opposite sex, unlike … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDiana the musical, now available on Netflix, is a filmed version of the Broadway show, currently on at the Longacre Theatre, W 48th St, NY. The story is about Diana, Princess of Wales, the most famous woman of the modern age, and covers her life from age 19, when Diana Spencer first meets Charles, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s 7.30 am and a line stretching three blocks is already forming for Spencer, directed by Pablo Larrain, one of the movies with buzz at this year’s London Film Festival. Starring Kristen Stewart it is a “fable from a true tragedy” that captures the life of Princess Diana over a three-day period. Just as it … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEnfant Terrible is a perfect name for this unsettling biopic about the queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmmaker Oskar Roehler spares no punches in telling the tale of this outrageous egomaniac who treated everybody in his life so vilely and in a manner that could not be justified by the fact that his films … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWes Hurley aka Vasili Naumenko is a queer performance artist/filmmaker and a stalwart of Seattle’s burgeoning drag and cabaret scene who has finally told his life story in film. Well, technically this is the second time around as his short film Little Potato did that too and picked up some 20 + awards for … Continue reading
