2020
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The Roads Not Taken: the latest film by Sally Potter
The British filmmaker Sally Potter’s films always attract a respectable following with arthouse audiences, but with the exception of ‘Orlando’, none of them have been commercially successful. Several of them, like this new movie, received mixed critical reviews mainly because they are too often considered indulgent and too personal. Like Leo (Javier Bardem) the…
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Golden Age : inside The Palace where wealthy Miamians go to retire
Why two young Swiss filmmakers should chose to make their debut documentary on a retirement home for very wealthy seniors in Florida’s Coral Gables, totally escapes me. But this is what they did, and in their intriguing profile they set out to prove that all that glitters is gold one way or another. Aptly…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews SALOME ‘full of sexual energy & spectacular dancing
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty…
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Studio 54 : Night Magic. a fab new Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum
It’s been 40 years since Steve Rubell and his partners shuttered the legendary Studio 54 after they were jailed for tax evasion. And even though the Club had only been opened for less than 3 years. even today it is still regarded as as pivotal part of the NY night club scene, and spoken…
