docu-drama
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘E.1207’ the life and work of the remarkable Irish furniture designer EILEEN GRAY
Around 1921, at the age of 43, the Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray, whose partners had previously all been women, met the much younger, penniless, architectural critic Jean Badovici and fell in love. They decided to build a house together in the south of France. Although their hideaway, perched on the side of a cliff…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews LADY LIKE :the life of RuPaul’s Drag Race royalty, Lady Camden
While Ru Paul’s Drag Race may be its own particular cup of T there’s no escaping that it has created a unique, parallel world of creativity, shade, talent and lewks that its stans and fans would sharpen stilettos to defend. But what happens to the real people, even those who might seem to be its…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EVERYTHING OF VALUE a queer disturbing Dutch drama that lets you choose the ending
Everything of Value (Alles van Waarde) is director Stanley Kolk’s originally constructed background story to a violent assault on two queer men one night in the shadow of a church in a small town in Holland. Kolk cleverly combines a fake documentary format, interviews and footage of the behind-the-scenes casting to recall this disturbing…
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MUSEUM HOURS
There is very little plot in this intriguing wee movie from writer/director Jem Cohen although it is billed as a drama. Essentially it is this. Anne, a middle-aged Canadian woman, rushes off to Vienna after she gets a call that a distant cousin of hers who has no other family is in a coma. In…
