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    Bambi : the fascinating journey of how Jean-Pierre Provout evolved into a Cabaret Star

    Jean-Pierre Provut was born in 1935 in a tiny village in Algeria, and one of his very earliest memories is of sitting on his mother’s lap as she tried in vain to get him to say his own name. It’s not that he couldn’t, but just that he wouldn’t.  He was happiest wearing his older sister’s … Continue reading

    Being 17

    Veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné may be the wrong side of 70 now but he shows in his latest movie that he still has a very firm grasp of the sensibilities of teenage boys coming of age. He is perfectly assisted by his co-writer Céline Sciamma the writer/director of quintessential adolescent gay movies such as Tomboy  and Girlhood. This is the … Continue reading

    Boys On Film 13 : Trick And Treat

    Most distributors of LGBT movies are only as good as the latest crop of new films that they think are worth promoting and releasing. Peccadillo Pictures, one of the main UK players, is no exception. Their present very impressive catalogue includes some of the absolutely best movies of the year such as ‘Futuro Beach’, ‘The Way … Continue reading

    Boys On Film 15 : Time & Tied

    There is a really fine art and skill into curating compendiums of short movies, and it’s one that the programmers at Peccadillo Pictures, a major UK distributor of LGBT cinema, actually seem to get better at with every new edition of their celebrated Boys On Film Series.  Their latest one no 15 : Time & … Continue reading

    Boys on Film 17 : Love Is A Drug

    Peccadillo Pictures a leading distributor of LGBT movies in the UK  have just issued no 17 in their excellent series of Boys on Film collections of short movies.  It is something that they really excel at, and in queerguru’s eyes these are by far the best anthologies of queer shorts that we have seen for … Continue reading

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