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HALSTON : Hallowed designer reduced to the JC Penney rack
2019 could be the year the world rediscovers Halston, the groundbreaking designer who drove some of the key looks of the 70s and 80s. Not only have 80s looks been resurfacing for some time but Ewan McGregor is about to star in a TV dramatization of his life and work. Disappointingly this documentary by…
Light In The Water
Lis Bartlett’s debut feature documentary is an affectionate look back at how the legendary West Hollywood Swim Club started back in the early 1980’s and survived some both turbulent and very successful times to morph into being West Hollywood Aquatics Team – who also go by “WH2O”. These pioneer gay sportsmen first banded together to…
Queerama
Brit filmmaker Daisy Asquith whisks us through 100 years of homosexuality in England in a tight 71 minutes in Queerama her latest documentary. Combining a real treasure trove of archival footage from extensive vaults of the British Film Institute, with clips from a whole range of LGBT feature films, plus more than a dabbing of vintage…
To A More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor
To anyone who followed the case of Edie Windsor, an unlikely looking LGBT activist, who took on the might of the US legal system and won, this extremely moving documentary from Donna Zaccaro doesn’t actually reveal anything new about this groundbreaking case. What it does, however, is succinctly put the major facts all together…
