Posts in 'Film' Category
“BORN IN FLAMES” (15) dir: Lizzie Borden USA 1983
There might be some connection – a coincidence of a cinematic kind perhaps – when a rare category, exempli gratia films made by women about women, follow each other to the box office. I am thinking of “The Iron Lady” re Margaret Thatcher (dir: Phyllida Lloyd) and “W.E.” re Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII (dir: [...]
Brighton & Hove Libraries Services Celebrate LGBT History Month 2012
The Brighton & Hove Libraries Service have a number of events and activities taking place in February 2012 to mark LGBT History Month and is marking Holocaust Memorial Day January 27th with an exhibition (now until 30th Jan) tracing the way Germany’s Nazi Party changed the world for male and female homosexuals and transvestites. LGBT Exhibition [...]
The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah ….Revisited
I have waited more years than I like to, patiently waiting to revisit this film.You can understand that as a very junior convert, a film sporting the mind boggling words Sodom and Gomorrah in the title had to be seen. And no, I could not be bothered to fork out cash to Amazon, and yes, I probably have missed previous showings, but I prefer the thrill of the chase through hundreds of TV channels – alongside a satisfactory pecuniary advantage of course.
Jamie: Drag Queen at 16
“I’ve had a secret, I’ve had to hide it my whole life” begins Jamie Campbell on BBC3 documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16. The documentary follows his journey to perform as his alias FiFi La True and ultimately arrive at his high school prom dressed in drag.
Jamie has faced difficulties since coming out at 14 and states he cannot remember a single day in his life when he hasn’t been told he’s different or a freak. Therefore, arriving at his prom provides a double whammy of revealing who he really is to his peers and “not letting them win.” Brave boy.
Gay Friendly Glee
Love it or hate it, Glee has become a hit. I believe this is for many reasons. Firstly, everyone loves watching something that makes them happy, and believe me, Glee will have you dancing around your living room. Secondly, because Sue Sylvester’s self-serving one liners are classic “You know, for me trophies are like herpes. You can try to get rid of them but they just keep coming. Sue Sylvester has hourly flair ups of burning itchy highly contagious talent” (even if you don’t watch Glee for the music, watch it purely for this). Thirdly, because it tackles issues other programmes don’t with wit and confidence. It doesn’t skirt around issues, it faces them head on.
Eurovision …
Like X-factor, writ large, but without the reasonable incentive of a million pound deal at the end of it!
Brighton & Hove Lesbian Film Club: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) U.S. policy
The Brighton & Hove Lesbian Film Club is showing ‘A Marine Story’ next Sunday at the Odeon in Brighton (see details here). So I thought it was time to inform myself more fully about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) policy in the U.S. I had a good search and, inter alia, found out that [...]
Christopher and His Kind. 1930′s Gay Drama.
Christoper and His Kind takes elements from the famous novelist Chris Isherwood’s (known for ‘Goodbye to Berlin’ and most recently the film depiction of his 1964 novel ‘A Single Man’) biography, chronicling his hedonistic travels around Europe, most notably Berlin, where he enjoyed the ever blooming gay scene. The drama is not merely a lustful sexual portrayal but historical in its depiction of the ever growing Nazi reign in the 1930′s.
Charleston House
Charleston House is a small 18th century farm house just outside Lewes, most famous for its past tenants and the legacy they left behind. The run down farmhouse was discovered by Virginia Woolf in 1916, who in turn suggested to her sister, Vanessa Bell, that she should make the place her new home. At the time [...]
Lip Service. New British Lesbian Drama.
Lip. Service. These two words will be on the lips of almost every gay and lesbian this autumn with the hugely anticipated six-part series following the capers of a group of twenty-something Glaswegian lesbians.
