Tag: 2011

  • Beauty aka Skoonheid

    Beauty aka Skoonheid

      Francois is one of the unhappiest self-loathing closeted gay men we have ever seen on film.  He’s a middle-aged South African who is first seen celebrating his daughter’s wedding in what appears to be a happy family. He is cold and matter of fact with his wife,  but that almost seemed like a natural…

  • Beauty aka Skoonheid

    Beauty aka Skoonheid

    Francois is one of the unhappiest self-loathing closeted gay men I have ever seen on film.  He’s a middle-aged South African who is first seen celebrating his daughter’s wedding in what appears to be a happy family. He is cold and matter of fact with his wife,  but that almost seemed like a natural state of…

  • Bert Stern : Original Madman

    Bert Stern : Original Madman

    Say the name Bert Stern to anyone and they will immediately think of the legendary set of photographs he took of Marilyn Monroe in her last sitting just before her death. Behind closed doors without anyone else present he captured her beauty raw and natural in stunning iconic images which still takes one’s breath away…

  • Absent aka Ausente

    Absent aka Ausente

      16 year old Martin Blanco claims to have something in his eye, so Sebastian his High School Swimming Coach whisks him out of Class and takes him to the Eye Hospital Emergency Room. The doctors give him the all clear, so the teacher offers to drive him home. School is over for the day,…

  • (A)SEXUAL

    I guess the byline of this movie could be ‘Everything You Need To Know About Not Having Sex’ , but unlike Woody Allen’s movie that I paraphrased this from, this documentary is no laughing matter.  It focuses on David Jay a very earnest handsome young man in his 20’s  who after he ‘came out’ to…