NEWFEST
Queerguru’s Picks of MUST SEE MOVIES at NY’s NEWFEST
The 34th Edition of NewFest, New York’s largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media and the largest convener of LGBTQ+ audiences in the city kicked off yesterday with the World Premiere of Mama’s Boy A Story of Our Americas. This film, an adaption of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black’s best selling memoir…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews I’LL SHOW YOU MINE : a two-hander family confrontational drama
This fictional film is split into 10 chapters titled: Discovery, Observation, Assessment, Negotiation, Presumption, Revelation, Persistence, Misdirection, Culmination, and Coalescence. A talky film with animations illustrating the dialogue the two protagonists have. Priya Sura (Poorna Jagannathan) invites Nick (Casey Thomas Brown), to work together as partners in the (illustrated?) book she is going to…
Queering the Canon: Rom-Coms for Happy Ever After (maybe?)
Calling ALL queer romantics: has NEWFEST got something for you! They are producing an excellent retrospective with some cult rom-coms and a few rare gems that you haven’t seen yet. So if you are looking for that happy-ever-after tale that will have you sobbing into your kleenex or just a night of love…
A Distant Place : a finely nuanced Korean queer family drama
A Distant Place, the debut feature film from Korean filmmaker Kuo-Young Park, and is a remarkable finely nuanced tale that evolved into such an exquisite film as beautiful as the stunning rural setting. It is the first Korean queer film that I have ever seen and I have to confess although I was unsure…
