2017
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I Dream In Another Language
Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez…
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Barbara : an iconic French Diva
queerguru’s Parisian correspondent has just sent us news about a stunning biopic that is the latest sensation in movie theaters over there. Barbara is the story of the late famous chanteuse whose songs included “L’Aigle noir” which sold 1 million copies in just 12 hours in the 1960’s. She cut a very dramatic figure, a tall…
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Lena Waithe wins an Emmy & acknowledges her LGBTQIA family
(Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)[/caption] Lena Waithe, actor and writer on Netflix’s Master of None, who deservedly made history when she won best writing for a comedy series at the Emmys Sunday night, quoted Congresswoman Maxine Walters with her “Let me reclaim my time’. Waithe the first African-American woman to win in…
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100 Men
When we read that New Zealand filmmaker Paul Oremland had made a documentary about the 100 sexual partners he has had over the past 40 years, we were really most impressed. Not with the number of conquests that he has clocked up, but by the sheer fact that after all this time he could…
