When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself. This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted from directly from Baldwin’s texts or letters which are read with a mixture of passion and dignity by the actor Samuel L Jackson.
queerguru reviews for P.T.V. the documentary that the NY Times declared was one of the best movies of the year, and we kind of agree.
Two of London’s most famous (or should that be infamous?) cultural hotspots are working together this week, and if you have the right outfit, or none at all, you could be part of it. London’s prestigious Tate Gallery is actually shooting a movie in Backstreet which is the city’s leading Fetish Club. The film being shot … Continue reading
Texas is trying to pull a North Carolina on us and pass a nasty transphobic bathroom bill. So the local branch of the ACLU have recruited the Austin based Oscar nominated film director Richard Linklater to help stop Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s bathroom bill, SB 6. Linklater has made this wee film titled “Taking … Continue reading
Despite several very disquieting factors about Chilean filmmaker Fernando Guzzoni’s story about a dysfunctional father/son relationship, the drama does nevertheless make for compelling viewing. For most of the week 18 year old Jesús (Nicolás Durán) is left alone to his own devices in Santiago whilst his father (Alejandro Goic ) is away working, and rather than go to school or … Continue reading