Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is a feature length documentary on MARINA ABRAMOVIC the celebrated Performance Artist as as she prepared for her major retrospective as Museum Of Modern Art in N.Y. in 2010. Premiered at SUNDANCE 2012 this is reprinted from my Festival Blog. It is a major event for any living artist to be given a retrospective … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn our seemingly never ending quest to bone up on American cultural icons that never featured in our British upbringing, we saw ‘Dancemaker’ a portrait of the subliminal Paul Taylor the celebrated choreographer who is possibly the greatest creator of modern dance in this country In the 1950’s even though he was dancing with the famed Martha Graham Company … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideZiggy Marley is hailing academy Award winning Director Kevin MacDonald’s new movie as the definitive film of the life and music of his father Bob Marley. And he’s probably right. The extended family of the legendary Jamaican musician and Rastafarian co-operated fully with the making of the movie which gave McDonald access to both people … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them. That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDiana Vreeland was the Queen Bee of Fashion: a Demi-God of Style who reigned supremely from her different ‘thrones’ of power for five decades and single-handedly changed the way women dressed. You may think that a brash statement but it is totally befitting of this larger-than-life style maverick whose influence at the helm of both Harpers … Continue reading
