Queerguru reviews FAIRYLAND an excellent film about a gay dad and his daughter growing up in SF in the 70s and 80s
Although it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia. … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews ‘Fanny : The Right To Rock’
Award-winning Canadian documentarian Bobbi Jo Hart has this knack for uncovering queer stories that we may have heard of, but for the most part, are untold. She did this beautifully with her affectionate and in-depth look at Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male ballet company in ‘Rebels on Pointe’. … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews Ferzan Özpetek’s NUOVO OLIMPO a passionate queer relationship spread over some 30 years as it struggles to fulfill its potential.
Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory. In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews FIONA CLARK : UNAFRAID an affectionate profile of an unlikely queer icon @Wicked Queer
Fiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s Clark captured images of the fringes of the … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews FIRE ISLAND : the hottest gay romcom of the summer
Right after seeing the preview trailer of Fire Island and before we talked with director Andrew Ahn we knew this was a no-brainer. This delightful and intoxicating film written by (and starring) Joel Kim Booster is without question THE queer rom-com of the summer. Borrowing heavily from (the unwed) Jane Austen and her … Continue reading