Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesUS Filmmaker Travis Mathews is a professional voyeur. His documentary movies all focus on gay men and their intimacy and are very raw and explicit. His most successful project to date is ‘Interior Leather Bar’ where he, and a somewhat obsessed James Franco, pieced together what they thought maybe the content of the chunk of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGangly geek Jarvis Cocker is the most unlikely looking rock-star ever, but seeing the front man of the British indie-pop group PULP ignite frenzied crowds of a packed stadium, you realize that he is in fact one of the very best. His quintessentially English band enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success in the late 1990’s before … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe late great Sophie Tucker was one the World’s most popular and successful entertainers for the first half of the 20 Century. This very early superstar with her wonderful range of comic and risque songs was one of the first women in show business who pioneered the way grabbing top billing in Vaudeville Theater, on … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1967 Alex a young student from North Carolina who had just graduated in International Affairs volunteered for the American Peace Corps and was sent to Iran to teach English. Whilst there he met and fell in love with Ali a local boy a few years younger than him, and for the next ten years … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGracie Otto’s affectionate documentary on the charismatic and adventurous English theater and film producer Michael White is a movie long overdue. Despite his enormous contribution in a prolific career that spanned three decades he is as Anna Wintour succinctly put it, ‘the most famous person that you’ve never heard’. Ms Wintour also so accurately summed up his … Continue reading
