Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter2015 was another good year for queer cinema from mainstream to indie particularly for documentaries, one our favorite genres, and here is our pick of the very best of them that we saw this year. 10) “Before The Last Curtain Falls” The German/Canadian documentarian Thomas Wallner’s very moving record of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOn June 5th 1967 the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were amassed on Israel’s borders threatening to annihilate the country. However six days later, Israel won an historic victory, conquering lands and tripling its size. In the immediate weeks after this several different kibbutzniks got together to discuss and record their feelings. They had no interest in making another victory … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSeymour Bernstein is probably the most talented classical pianist alive today, yet very few people have ever heard of him. He was at dinner party a couple of years ago and seated next to the actor Ethan Hawke who was immediately impressed that this octogenarian musician seemed to understand all his anxieties and self-doubts much … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterChristmas is a time for giving : especially if it is something from N.Y’s favorite Department Store Bergdorf Goodman which has been a New York institution for the past 111 years. Stretching a whole block of Fifth Avenue between 57th & 58th Streets it is the high temple of fashion’s elite that has the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesChemsex is an unidentifiable issue to most people but after watching this excellent but scarily sobering new documentary from filmmakers Max Gogarty and William Fairman of VICE you will see how this fast-growing phenomenon is deeply affecting a certain part of the urban gay community. It’s about gay men ‘slamming’, which is evidently the more … Continue reading
