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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Nina Menkes’ ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ which investigates the politics of cinematic shot design
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is filmmaker Nina Menkes’ thought-provoking analysis of the sexual politics in (heterosexual, I should add) cinematic shot design. Part documentary, part student lecture, and using scenes from dozens of our favorite movies as examples, Menkes successfully argues that shot design perpetuates sexism and other ills across the world. Movies such…
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Two excellent European coming-of-age movies coming soon that are MUST SEES
There are two very different excellent coming-of-age movies on our radar right now that are heading for movie theatres very soon and you shouldn’t miss either of them The first one is Cannes Grand Prix Winner CLOSE : a remarkably tender coming-of-age story from Belgium filmmaker Lukas Dhont. When Queerguru’s Contributing Editor Andrew Hebden…
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Queerguru checks out SUGARWOOD the sexiest Bakery in NY
I think it was 1999 on a trip to Greenwich Village when I fell in love. Hard and deep. Not with anything living or breathing but with this super soft cupcake topped with an enormous swirl of buttercream. I wasn’t alone as on some weekends when I was in town there was actually a very…
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Queerguru reviews the excellent SHE SAID about the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the start of the ME TOO movement
She Said is one of those movies that should issue a warning to the audience even before its very first scene, It’s not as though the basic plot of this fictionalized drama will be a surprise to anyone but as the determined team of NY Times journalists keeps finding one awful fact after another…
