Uncle Howard @ #PIFF16

Filmmaker Aaron Brookner set off to find the lost negatives of Howard Brookner’s 1983 definitive documentary of William S Burroughs. and in the course of his investigations discovered so much more about this dynamic and influential queer filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1989 aged 34 years who was also his Uncle Howard.  This compelling … Continue reading

Uncle Howard : a Tribute to filmmaker Howard Brookner

  Unquestionably one of the best movies with LGBT content to premiere at this Sundance Film Festival was filmmaker Aaron Brookner’s delightful tribute to his filmmaker Uncle that who he adored and who sadly died of AIDS in 1989 at the tender age of 34.    Howard Brookner packed a lot into his short life … Continue reading

UNCLE VANYA : a star studded Virtual reading for the Actors Fund

  Online Theater during the COVID 19 Lockdown is getting bolder and better.  This week sees a star-studded World Premiere reading of Neil LaBute’s new adaptation of Uncle Vanya, perhaps the most poignant of Anton Chekhov’s masterpieces: This bitterly comic meditation on frustrated love and the pitiful wages of self-sacrifice in late-19th-century Russia stars out gay actor … Continue reading

Unconditional

This quintessential gritty British drama is set in a working class suburb of Newcastle where in a tower block of council flats two teenage twins are carers to their disabled mother. Living hand to mouth on welfare payments Kristen applies for a small loan to buy a few wee luxuries which means she gets a … Continue reading

Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross Dressers

The French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz has had a lifetime fascination with men and women who refuse to conform to the strictures of gender roles. In fact, his Teddy Award-winning Documentary Film in 2013  Bambi, a  profile of French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot is one of the best transgender films ever made. Lifshitz also made a film and a book called Les … Continue reading

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