Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAustralian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s starts his awe-inspiring take on Shakespeare’s most violent tale of Macbeth on the battlefield on the mist-drenched Scottish heath that he stages dramatically like an epic, but bloody opera. It sets the pace for what turns out to be one of the most enthralling adaptions of the Bards work on the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1967 Oscar nominated filmmaker Shirley Clarke ensconced herself in an apartment in N.Y.’s Chelsea Hotel on the evening of Dec. 3, 1966 and let her camera roll for the next 12 hours. Her subject was a much-larger-than-life articulate African/American man who, drink and cigarette always in hand, seems to never stop laughing. The very … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSince it produced one of the world’s first ever explicitly gay films called ‘Different From The Others’ back in 1919, Germany has been at the forefront of making really good LGBT movies. They are usually very sensual with a penchant for really hot looking men but all with highly original and compelling plots. Here then … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s hard to distinguish if some of the criticism leveled at this, the fourth adaption of Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel, is because the director of this English classic is Danish, or because ardent cinephiles are miffed that anyone should try surpassing John Schlesinger’s 1967 definitive version starring Julie Christie. Nevertheless this new pared down adaptation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesGaetano Procio is in big trouble with his wife’s Mafia family, and scared for his life he jumps into a New York taxi and demands that the driver take him to the safest place that no-one would ever find him. He omits to tell Gaetano that The Ritz Baths are totally gay and what follows is a … Continue reading
