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The Art of George Quaintance that gets overlooked too often
Fame can be an odd thing sometimes. Like how some people bathe in it whilst at the same time others with equal talents get to linger in the dark. When it comes to queer artists there is an obvious comparison between the legendary Tom of Finland and the extremely talented artist George Quaintance…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss
Firebird is an enormously satisfying and complete film. It tells a full tale of life, and love and loss from its beginning right up to an end that could never need or want a sequel. Peeter Rebane‘s story of two Soviet military recruits, a pilot officer and a private, falling in love on a military base…
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Diary of a Film : Niven Govinden reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
At the heart of Niven Govinden’s short novel is the romantic off-screen love affair between two actors, the leading men in the narrator’s latest film. The narrator, known only as Maestro, originally from some East European country and now in his mid-fifties, is a successful film director attending a film festival in Italy for the…
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Queerguru @ BFI Flare : Rebel Dykes : London in the 1980’s
In the opening minutes of this powerful documentary we hear a voice that says ‘ we were young, working-class and poor: we were dykes NOT lesbians.” It is a statement of fact but there is a slight edge to it which we take as a warning not to misinterpret who this group of queer women…
