Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis quietly unassuming new documentary is unquestionably one of the most powerful sobering wake-up calls I have sat and watched for a very long time. Without any of the dramatic shock tactics and megaphone shouting of high profile exposes from the likes of filmmakers such as Michael Moore, the movie carefully rolls out a stream of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor well over the past four decades Berlin’s Zoo Railway Station has been the main stomping ground for the city’s rent boys. Using archive footage from 1965 this fascinating documentary from gay activist filmaker Rosa Van Praunheim paints the scene there as it has evolved until the present day. It is a desperately sad tale … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf this was my One Word Review (as opposed to 5 mins.) then I would unhesitatingly describe this Oscar Nominated Documentary by Dror Morah as ‘maddening’. Morah achieved an extraordinary feat in interviewing the six men who have headed up Israel’s very shadowy counter-terrorism agency Shin Bet. This ultra super-secretive organisation reports directly to the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOma and Bella are two warm and feisty octogenarians who live together in Berlin. Oma was originally from Poland and Bella from Lithuania and they both ended up in Berlin separately where they met each after the end of the World War 2 which had annihilated their entire families. They were as Oma said ‘displaced persons without so … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has … Continue reading
