Tag: PBS
PBS finally gets to screen Broadway: Beyond The Golden Age
After being in development for the past two decades since the release of the original documentary, PBS has finally screened Broadway: Beyond The Golden Age. Written, directed, and produced by late filmmaker Rick McKay, it is a sequel to McKay’s 2003 documentary Broadway: The Golden Age—By the Legends Who Were There. Beyond the Golden Age …
Sex, Drugs & Bicycles
For those of you who haven’t yet realized that the Netherlands is a queer utopia, now may be the time to catch up with the rest of the world. A new award-winning documentary titled “Sex, Drugs & Bicycles” is an American view on the paid vacations, universal healthcare, LGBTQIA+ acceptance, and windmills of The…
PBS & Paramount + have plans to celebrate PRIDE 2021
We applaud and support everybody who sincerely want to support this PRIDE Month, especially when they are an august body such as PBS. Here then are a few of the programs they will be screening this June Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion…
Josh O’Connor plays Romeo for real
The word from the UK is that the National Theatre’s very first film is something of a smash hit. In its 5-star review, The Guardian called this Romeo and Juliet ‘an ingenious triumph”. This production of Shakespeare’s classic love story was created solely for the screen and it was shot on a single stage, over…
Another Hayride with the message “self-love would help overcome AIDS”
Queer filmmaker Matt Wolf was born in 1982 a year after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US. He may have been too young to remember the pandemic at its height, but his excellent new short documentary captures it so succinctly that it will stir up memories that some of us…
