Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Igor Savitsky was working as an artist recording all the ‘finds’ in the Archaeological Excavations in the desert region of Uzbekistan in the 1950’s he used all his spare time to paint. However when his work was quickly dismissed as rubbish by a leading artist back in Moscow he gave up trying to create … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrederick Wiseman’s stunningly photographed documentary is an up-close look behind the scenes at one of Paris’s most famous nude revues ‘The Crazy Horse’, and also at many of the bare behinds that inhabit the place. His camera rolled freely around the entire Club where uninhibited beautiful European girls seemed to be permanently in a state … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAn intriguing documentary that traces how a Jewish presence on the baseball field and in the stadium bleachers evolved over the years. For someone like me who could write what I know about the game on a post-it, and who is hardly an authority of American Judaism it was quite an eye opener …..although there times … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOne of the most shocking realizations of this new documentary that looks at the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) was that the Authorities response to their initial peaceful protests was to beat, club and unmercifully mace them and generally treat them like murderers when the only physical harm they had done … Continue reading
