documentary
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Clambake
This new documentary from veteran lesbian filmmaker Andrea Meyerson (‘Laughing Matters’) is an affectionate look at one of the oldest and non-commercial women’s events in the US that celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2014. The highly successful Provincetown Women’s Week started out as idea by a few of the women innkeepers in the town to…
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Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride
Some people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it. Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned. In this slightly stranger-than-fiction…
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Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures
The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies…
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Boom Bust Boom
At first glance the whole concept of a movie that seeks to look at the rather complicated practices of the global financial markets that keep leading us in and out of crisis being written and directed by Terry Jones a member of Monty Python, seems somewhat insane. It is however anything but, as Jones has…
