documentary
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Mad About The Boy : The Noel Coward Story : playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, and one of the wittiest flamboyant men of his generation.
Barnaby Thompson‘s compelling and affectionate portrait of one of the greatest quintessential English man of the first half of the last century is such a sheer joy to view. Noel Coward, later to be Sir Noel, and universally known as The Master was famous as a playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer,…
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High and Low : John Galliano : the tale of a talented and tortured genius
The Scottish Academy-Award Winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald told Vogue Magazine that he had two main reasons for wanting to make this documentary. Firstly because John Galliano is regarded as one of the greatest designers of the last hundred years. and “everyone tells me this guy’s a genius“. The second reason was because of those…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO … Brian J Smith’s love letter to Fire Island
Fire Island. The place is evocative to so many queers around the world. The narrow ten square miles sand bar of 600 beach houses, a hundred co-ops, a beautiful beach, wooden boardwalks, no roads or cars, and a handful of commercial businesses is 49 miles off the coast of New York City in…
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The Life and Death of (the truely wonderful) Lily Savage
Its not often that this reviewer finds himself laughing hysterically and then crying whilst watching the same film. But then this very incisive and affectionate documentary is about one of the most endearing and talented queer entertainers I have ever had the joy of seeing perform so many times. Lily Savage, the drag…
