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Yves St Laurent : The Perfection of Style
The Seattle Art Museum’s stunning exhibit of legendary designer Yves St Laurent highlighting his 44 year career , is not the first retrospective ever mounted in this country, but it does include some wonderful new acquisitions from the collection of the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent that have never been shown publicly before.…
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One Kiss
Clutching a newly won Italian Golden Globe comes an insightful teen drama that adroitly tackles a whole slew of issues such as homophobia, bullying and date-rape sex. Despite the serious nature of it’s subject matter, the movie opens on a very sunny note infusing such warmth and humor throughout that doesn’t prepare one at all…
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Wanna See Your Name in Lights?
Making queer cinema has never been easy. Despite the boundless amounts of talent, and proven track records of filmmakers, and the abundance of LGBT Film Festivals eager to bring new work to audiences, and the success at the box office, especially via global streaming platforms, raising the necessary financial investment is still as tough as…
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Among The Believers
This new documentary by filmmakers Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi makes a sterling attempt to a semblance of an understandable explanation of the ongoing internecine war in Pakistan between the government authorities and the Taliban insurgents. They start with the cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi who heads up the Red Mosque network of schools known as…
