Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGerman Philosopher Hannah Arendt and her husband the Marxist poet/philosopher Heinrich Blücher, both Jews, managed to escape the French Detention Camp where they had been imprisoned and lived out the rest of World War 2 in New York. They quickly established themselves, and Arendt scored many prestigious teaching positions …. she was the first ever … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Linda Boreman’s father retired from the N.Y. Police Department the family moved to Davie, Florida to catch some sun. Three years later Linda also caught the wrath of her strict Catholic parents when she had a child out of wedlock which they had whisked away straight after birth and had adopted. Linda was still … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the 1960’s when Phil Spector ruled American pop music, we Brits crowned Joe Meek as our king. They were both very similar people. Flamboyant eccentrics bordering on insane monsters and complete control freaks dependent on heavy drug use and exploiting young unknown talents, they were geniuses nonetheless. We learn in this intriguing bio-pic of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVioletta Parra a one-woman Chilean renaissance movement was an enigma. This multifaceted unique genius was deeply passionate about her art as she was about her love/s and without both of them she was a sad lonely soul. This remarkable feature film based on her son Angel’s account of her extraordinary life shows how this obsessed … Continue reading
