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Lithuanian queer filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas on his new movie The Lawyer
Romas Zabarauskas is one of a very rare breed. He is a queer filmmaker in Lithuania, a country not exactly well- known for its LGBTQ cinema. Queerguru got to talk with him on the eve on the World Premiere of his latest movie THE LAWYER at London’s BFI Flare LGBTQ Film Festival. Zabarauskas has…
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The Roads Not Taken: the latest film by Sally Potter
The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s films always attract a respectable following with arthouse audiences, but with the exception of ‘Orlando’, none of them have been commercially successful. Several of them, like this new movie, received mixed critical reviews mainly because they are too often considered indulgent and too personal. Like Leo (Javier Bardem) the…
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Golden Age : inside The Palace where wealthy Miamians go to retire
Why two young Swiss filmmakers should chose to make their debut documentary on a retirement home for very wealthy seniors in Florida’s Coral Gables, totally escapes me. But this is what they did, and in their intriguing profile they set out to prove that all that glitters is gold one way or another. Aptly…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews SALOME ‘full of sexual energy & spectacular dancing
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty…
