Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesJenni Olsen’s cinematic essay based around the Camino Real which was once the main route from California to Mexico is a very esoteric nostalgic look at the rapidly changing landscape between San Francisco and Las Angeles. Part history lesson, part tribute to all the Missions that line the route, and part recounting of an impossible … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThere will come a time in our (distant?) future when filmmaker James Kicklighter can make a documentary like this when the sole focus is on the extraordinary voice of opera singer Lucia Lucas with barely a mention of the fact she is transgender. However right now we still need films like this which add … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis must-see documentary from 1997 was produced by San Francisco’ s KQED-TV as part of a series “Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco”. It’s a fascinating investigation on how The Castro became the gay holy grail. The area was originally known as the Eureka Valley when it was full of dairy farms until … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesRichard Yeagley’s documentary “The Sunday Sessions” makes for very tough and uncomfortable viewing. It’s not just the subject matter of gay-conversion therapy that is so abhorrent and extremely harmful, but the fact the film follows 20-something-year-old vulnerable Nathan Gniewek for a year as he tries to de-gay himself. Gniewek is a very likeable and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe Times of Bill Cunningham is a joyous account of a wonderfully fulfilled human being who simply radiates on the screen the sheer passion and excitement he has for his life. Filmed in 1994 by Mark Bozek (Cunningham died in 2016) it had been shot purely as an interview but spliced together with some … Continue reading