2023
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Queerguru reviews Ferzan Özpetek’s NUOVO OLIMPO a passionate queer relationship spread over some 30 years as it struggles to fulfill its potential.
Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory. In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer…
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As Todd Haynes MAY/DECEMBER is released on Netflix, the Museum of Moving Image celebrates with a Retrospective of his movies
Award-winning filmmaker Todd Haynes …..he has won both the Queer Palm (‘Carol’) and The Teddy (‘Poison’) ….. is so busy spreading the gospel of Haynes On December 1st his latest movie the critically acclaimed MAY/DECEMBER will be streaming on Netflix. It’s an uncomfortable real-life melodrama about the scandal of a 36-year-old mother (Julianna Moore)…
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Instead of wrapping up in the cold right now, you could be stripping it all off in the sun in Key West.
If you are in Northern climes right now and having to wear excessive layers of clothing BUT still feeling cold, then maybe you should not read further because it may make your blood boil. It is the time of year when the winter edition of Bone Island, a male-oriented naturist gathering takes place in…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Y A UNE ÉTOILE (THERE’S A STAR) a unique documentary about rural queer life of Nova Scotia
Generations of queer people from small villages and towns across the world have migrated to larger cities, looking for a more accepting community, more fun, better choice of partners and better career and cultural options. The same decision-making process, of course, applies to many straight people. But what if you’re queer and love…
