Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOma and Bella are two warm and feisty octogenarians who live together in Berlin. Oma was originally from Poland and Bella from Lithuania and they both ended up in Berlin separately where they met each after the end of the World War 2 which had annihilated their entire families. They were as Oma said ‘displaced persons without so … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideUp until the 1960’s singing stars on TV and Records were supported by very wholesome and rather genteel white female singers. They were known by other musicians as ‘readers’ as they came in and sang exactly what was on their music scores without any deviation. And then the first African/American girls started getting gigs backing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDr George Tiller was gunned down in cold blood in front of his family whilst at a Sunday Service in a church in Wichita, Kansas in 2009. The killer was a rabid anti-abortionist activist who wanted to stop Dr Tiller performing third-trimester abortions. After he succeeded there were only four other Doctors left in the … Continue reading
