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The Other Side of Hope
Its been a long six years since he directed his last movie Le Havre, but the wait was well worth it as Aki Kaurismäki has just released The Other Side of Hope another truly wonderful piece of escapism that is peppered with a more than the usual dose of realism to. The Finnish auteur…
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Romeu & Romeu
A very young set of Brazilian filmmakers have very loosely adapted Shakespeare’s classic love-story Romeo & Juliet and made it a contemporary queer romantic drama. This web series was also set in the fictional Italian city of Verona, and is now where the Campelos and Monteiros families have vehemently hated each other for generations after…
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God Is Watching The Divine David
As part of the Tate Britain’s recent exhibition Queer British Art 1861-1967, Channel 4 commissioned six new films; six portraits of queer individuals by six queer filmmakers. Matt Lambert’s subject was the iconic avant-garde cabaret performer David Hoyle, the Divine David himself, in his custom Rick Owens drag, talking about his first gay club with God…
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James Allen Hall on growing up gay in Florida in the ’80s’
queerguru had the pleasure of talking to author James Allen Hall about his wonderful new memoir on growing up gay in Florida in the 1980’s . I LIKED YOU BETTER BEFORE I KNEW YOU SO WELL is wonderfully warm, totally funny and very poignant . The interview by Roger Walker-Dack was filmed at Miami Book Fair by Richard Bolton
