Tag: re-release
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG the radical queer visionary that has just been re-released
Renowned poet, radical queer, visionary, one of the founders of the Beat Generation, lecturer, Buddhist, political activist and more, Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counter-culture. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg condenses 60 hours of film on Ginsberg, painstakingly collected over 25 years by director Jerry Aronson, into a…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews the re-released ‘Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul)’ a landmark transgender film from 1983
The opening nighttime scene presents people walking at Jorge Manrique Street in Madrid, and for a moment you may recall Rome and Federico Fellini´s masterpiece Nights of Cabiria, but in a matter of seconds, the women in fur coats scream and run away quickly, the police is coming for them in a raid against…
Peaches Christ and the return her long-lost demented, blood-splattered classic cult ALL ABOUT EVIL
The expression twirling in our minds right now is ‘ you cant keep a good woma down‘. We’re not totally sure if that is complete;y applicable to Peaches Christ as some would say that is really stretching the definition of good. One thing is for sure, you can never keep her down,…
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level
Great news if you live in Europe or your computer can play Region 2 DVD’s as next week sees the release of a fully restored high definition version of The Naked Civil Servant, unquestionably one of queerguru’s favorite classic queer movies. From 1976, it tells the remarkable true story of Quentin Crisp, self-proclaimed England’s…
Portrait of Jason
In 1967 Oscar nominated filmmaker Shirley Clarke ensconced herself in an apartment in N.Y.’s Chelsea Hotel on the evening of Dec. 3, 1966 and let her camera roll for the next 12 hours. Her subject was a much-larger-than-life articulate African/American man who, drink and cigarette always in hand, seems to never stop laughing. The very…
