The Broken Tower
An obscure and difficult to watch movie about an obscure and difficult to read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was mere 33 years old. In his short career … Continue reading
The Bubble
The course of true love rarely runs smooth, but if you are an Israeli Jewish gay man who falls for a Palestinian Arab gay man, then the chances are that you are completely doomed from the start. In this remarkable and moving take on ‘Romeo & Juliet’ director Eyton Fox follows up ‘Yossi & Jaegar’ … Continue reading
The Cakemaker
When Israeli businessmen Oren (Roy Miller) walks into the small Berlin cafe where shy young Tomas (Tim Kalkhof) works as the pastry chef, there is an immediate attraction between the two men. Very soon afterward they set up a part-time home together to share when Oren makes his monthly visits to the city. Every time when … Continue reading
The Cannes Award Winning THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS is the bromance you will not want to miss
\ Last May ‘The Eight Mountains’ a new movie about the bonds of male friendship won the prestigious Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Now this film from Charlotte Vandermeersch and Oscar-nominated Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen will finally receive a proper release stateside, opening in NYC on April 28 and LA on … Continue reading
The Capote Tapes : the story on an iconic queer writer
Confession time. Truman Capote was one of the great queer iconic figures of the 20th Century that we would have loved to have known personally. Not the version of him in the biopic Capote that won Philip Seymour Hoffman an Academy Award back in 2006. It’s the ‘real’ Capote that is captured in a … Continue reading