QUEERGURU

Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews

2015

  • Happy Birthday Alain Delon

    French movie star ALAIN DELON celebrates his 80th Birthday today.   Delon was one of most prominent actors and screen “heart throbs” in the 1960s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Purple Noon (the original Talented Mr Ripley in 1960), L’Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Lost Command…

  • The Cut

    The third part of Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin’s trilogy ‘Love, Death and the Devil’ is a slow-winding powerful globe-trotting epic that follows Nazaret Manoogian (French actor Tahar Rahim)  an Armenian blacksmith on his journey to reunite with his family after war has torn them apart.  It starts in 1915 when the Turkish Army carry out…

  • Karl Lagerfeld : A Visual Journey

    Love him or hate him (!) there is no way to escape the ubiquitous presence of  Karl Lagerfeld. The 82 year old German fashion legend, based in Paris, is the head designer and creative director of the fashion house Chanel as well as the Italian house Fendi and his own fashion label. Over the decades, he has…

  • (Complacent Present) …. Fragile Future

    The annual GFEST – Gaywise FESTival has always been one of our favorite LGBTQI events in London.  This year although so many of us in our community are enjoying more tolerance and acceptance than any other time in our history as Laws are changed and opinions alter, there is a whole part of the world…