documentary
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‘Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel’ a true story about one of the last bastions of homophobia
On the balcony of the Holloway Motel on the iconic Route 66 in West Hollywood, a man would sit with a laptop in front of him, drinking wine. The motel hadn’t been in use for a while and was in the process of changing hands to become interim housing for the homeless. Filmmaker Ramiel Petros…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews ‘STRANGE JOURNEY: The Story of Rocky Horror’ a documentary by Linus O’Brien about his father’s cult film
Strange Journey is a documentary made by Linus O’Brien about his father’s all-time cinema hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The film opens in Hamilton New Zealand where locals revere local boy Richard O’Brien, who left for London aged 22 in 1964 and shot to unexpected fame in 1973 when he wrote what is described…
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WELCOME TO THE TOOLSHED : the story of a queer Leather Bar in Palm Springs en route to its premiere at Cannes
There is nothing we like more at QUEERGURU than talking with filmmakers who are as passionate about queer cinema as we are. Just like Daniel Talbott and Andrew Klaus-Vineyard who usually make scripted features. Today, we caught up with them en route to the Cannes Film Festival, where their first-ever doc is premiering at the…
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Jeffrey Schwarz’s ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’ : World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival
William Friedkin’s 1980 film CRUISING was….. and still is … the most controversial queer film ever made. It’s about a series of violent New York murders in which the victims all frequent clandestine Manhattan nightclubs in which gay men gather to dance, drink, and make pairings while enveloped in an S&M atmosphere of leather, boots,…
