documentary
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Leave It To Levi : queer porn to fall asleep too
18 year old Luke, the adopted son of a single mother in a small town in Ohio, used to make videos of pleasuring himself which he then sent to Jake Jaxson the head of the gay twink porn site Cocky Boys. Exactly one year later Luke was in NY. renamed as Levi Karter, and…
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Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Tom Shepard started his excellent and unsettling documentary about the plight of a handful of LGBT refugees in what we now wistfully call the ‘good old days’ i.e. pre 2016. Up to then this country stood by its centuries old policy of giving refugee to all those in need. In fact Shepard points out…
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63 UP : Filmmaker Michael Apted’s monumental reality series that has followed 14 Brits now for 55 years
There seems to be a very fine line between observer and voyeur as we watch ’63 Up’ the latest addition of Michael Apted’s extraordinary series of films that he has been shooting for the past 55 years. Following the lives of some 14 Brits every seven years, the power of this precursor to the…
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The Disappearance of My Mother: Filmmaker’s ode to his elderly supermodel mother
Exactly why the veteran former supermodel Benedetta Barzini allowed her filmmaker son Beniamino Barrese to make this his very documentary on her is very unclear as most of the time she simply barks at him to F–k Off! At 76 years old and with her well-worn face, it is still easy to see that…
