queerguru reviews the Provincetown Theater’s production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award Winning play AMADEUS : a highly fictionalized biography of the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his rival composer Antonio Salieri. Starring Billy Hough and James P Byrne who also directed.
The review was filmed by Roger Walker-Dack for ‘queerguru reports’ on PTV’s Channel 99.
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that immediately followed the tragic assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 as seen through the eyes of his grieving widow is due mainly to Natalie Portman’s powerhouse performance as one of this country’s most iconic First Ladies.
The wonderful astonishing opening sequence of a full scale choreographed musical number on a flyover in the middle of an L.A. traffic jam sets the pace for what is clearly one of the most exhilarating movie musicals for years. La La Land is only the third film helmed by 31 year old Damien Chazelle (he picked up an Oscar nomination for Whiplash his last movie) and he successfully creates a contemporary musical that is obviously inspired by all the classic ones of the genre with it’s romantic story full of hope and love.
queerguru reviews La La Land for P.T.V. as the movie arrives at the Waters Edge Cinema in P.Town.
queerguru reviews Landline an enchanting comic tale about learning to negotiate a landscape in a family where sisters can be best friends and even distant parents can be human after all. With such an exceptional talented cast, this is very definitely one of the more compelling romantic comedies of the season.