BFI London
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LONDON’S BFI and NY’s MOMA celebrate the 80th Birthday of the British queer auteur TERENCE DAVIES
The British Film Institute in London is currently celebrating what would have been the 80th birthday of TERENCE DAVIES, who was lauded as one of its greatest, most uncompromising cinematic artists. In the 1970s he wrote/directed Children, then Madonna and Child, which he followed with Death and Transfiguration. These three films comprise The Terence Davies Trilogy,…
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First look at Andrew Haigh’s queer romance ALL OF US STRANGERS
All of us in the Queerguru Office are really jealous of Andrew Hebden. He’s our London-based Contributing Editor who is covering BFI’s London Film Festival which runs from 4 to 15 October 2023 where they will be screening one of the most highly anticipated queer movies of 2023. ‘All Of Us Strangers‘ is the…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “Triangle of Sadness” a funny & surreal satire at London Film Festival
If, by some random cataclysm (or Mondays as we now call them), you only got to see the first three scenes of the satire Triangle of Sadness you would still have rarely seen a more finely observed depiction of how money and status wreak havoc in our culture. The rest of this funny and occasionally…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden @BFI London Film Fest reviews “A Room Of My Own” that makes a case for how sad moments define people
A Room of My Own (Directed by Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze), set in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the pandemic asks one central question; do circumstances turn you into a mess, or does being a mess create your circumstances? It then artfully avoids coming down on one side or the other. Tina (Taki Mumladze, also the co-writer…
