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Can You Bring It : Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

  This compelling powerful documentary tells the story behind the most celebrated and performed work by the iconic queer choreographer Bill T Jones.  He created ‘D-Man In The Waters’ in 1989 one year after losing his life partner the dancer/choreographer Arnie Zane to AIDS.  It was the height of the pandemic that was decimating the … Continue reading

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  When the movie opens Lee (Melissa McCarthy) is seen as a bitter and mean spirited alcoholic who has just been fired from her latest job and is in her squalid unkempt Manhattan apartment with just her cat for company.  Totally broke and not having paid her rent for months , she has  exhausted anyone … Continue reading

CANARY : a coming-of-age musical dramedy set in South Africa in the 1980’s

  FIlmmaker Christiaan Olwagen’s enchanting coming-of-age musical dramedy set in his homeland of South Africa takes a trope of extreme obstacles facing gay men in the 1980’s with such an inspired touch that makes this such a sheer joy of a movie. It’s the tale of teenage Johan Niemand (Schalk Bezuidenhout) who although he lives … Continue reading

Candid Love

Filmmaker Kurtz Frausun’s voyeuristic record of an ill-fated relationship between two desperately troubled men is a disturbing sight that raises all sorts of questions. The first one of which is why they even allowed the intrusive camera into their lives at a time when they are both clinging on to the last vestiges of hope … Continue reading

Capote

This is the story of how the celebrated and somewhat notorious writer Truman Capote was fascinated and became obsessed by the brutal murder of a whole family in a deserted Kansas Farmhouse that became his most successful book ever, the sensational ‘In Cold Blood’. This is THE role that the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman was born … Continue reading

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