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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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After Louie
When the legendary gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer says we should support something, then we always sit up and take notice. Now Kramer is encouraging us all to get behind a new movie project that he stresses ‘needs to be made‘, and on close examination it seems to queerguru, that the great man is right. Again.…
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The Man I Love
Israeli LGBT movies have a tendency to be both passionately romantic and heartbreakingly sad. None more so than the one we revisit now as part our ‘turn back time’ series which is ‘The Bubble’ from 2006 from Eytan Fox who is probably that country’s most successful gay filmmaker. The movie one of Fox’s best is, true…
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Deconstructing Zoe
This new documentary having its World Premiere at Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival sets about exploring the rather blurred lines of gender and sexuality of a rather extraordinary London based Malayan Chinese actor/producer called Chowee Leow aka Zoe who is a self-professed gender-illusionist. Initially listening to interviews with Lee and friends was somewhat confusingly as no-one…
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RWD reviews Miles Ahead
RWD reviews MILES AHEAD : co-written and directed by Oscar Winning Actor Don Cheadle who also stars in this feature based on the life on the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis who is widely considered to be one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. Made possible with the support of Provincetown Community…
