2016
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Carol : all the glances …..
queerguru is a tad skeptical about a new list of the 30 Best LGBT Movies of all time that BFI Flare released yesterday to mark their own 30th Anniversary as they placed Todd Haynes’s Carol as Number 1. Now as anyone who reads this Blog regularly will know that queerguru has been shouting about this…
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Marguerite
Very few people have ever heard of the wealthy American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who was an amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her dreadful singing voice that was so bad that it actually made her famous in the 1930’s & 1940’s, for all the wrong reasons. Now there is not one, but two movies…
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Looking at Mapplethorpe
2016 is going to be a good year to look at the work of the celebrated controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. First there is a brand new documentary by the prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato (‘Party Monster’ ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’) called Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures . It had…
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Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures
The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies…
