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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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GIMME THE LOOT
Sofia and Malcolm are a couple of teenage graffiti artists (taggers) from the Bronx who set their hearts on the twenty year somewhat impossible challenge to ‘bomb the apple’ i.e. spray paint the NY Met’s notorious giant apple that is shown every time they hit a home run. This sweet naive pair believe that when…
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SIDE EFFECTS
A chronically depressed young woman attempts suicide just days after her new husband has been released from prison after he served a sentence for insider trading. The Psychiatrist on duty in the ER room prescribes different regimes of drugs which do not shake off the ‘poisonous fog bank’ she is immersed in until she persuades…
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NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET
Chilean Raul Rutz was a prolific experimental filmmaker who worked mainly in France, and is probably best known to US audiences for movies such as ‘Mysteries of Lisbon’ and ‘Marcel Proust’s Time Regained’. This is his very last film made when he was dying and I think is best described as his personal…
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THE GATEKEEPERS
If this was my One Word Review (as opposed to 5 mins.) then I would unhesitatingly describe this Oscar Nominated Documentary by Dror Morah as ‘maddening’. Morah achieved an extraordinary feat in interviewing the six men who have headed up Israel’s very shadowy counter-terrorism agency Shin Bet. This ultra super-secretive organisation reports directly to the…
