What does it matter that I had already started to write this post, when the computer at work bailed on me? hrmpppfff… anyway, I give you: Quinceañera
If you thought being fourteen and pregnant sucks, imagine being fourteen and pregnant and being a latina and your father is a minister. yeah, and now imagine being in [...]
Nina’s Heavenly Delights
Nina (Shelley Conn) left Glasgow on the day of her wedding, leaving behind her family, most of all her beloved father and his restaurant The New Taj. Years later she returns by the sad reason of her dad’s death. The restaurant is pretty much run down, and she soon learns that her father [...]
1. OK, there’s not much to say about Sancharram (The Journey), other than it’s the coming-of-age story of a young lesbian emancipating herself from tradition and convention to go her own way. Oh, and that she’s a lezzie in India, where it seems obviously much harder to achieve that. The ending was vague – I’m [...]
Last night I went to see the short film program Coming out is such great joy at 6 o’clock and the gf joined me for Ci-Qing/Spider Lilies at 8. As you can imagine I was knackered, especially since for about 20 minutes they weren’t able to start the last one of the shorts, so the [...]
I promised to keep this short, so short it shall be:
Private Life – GB 2006, 15 min
Small town woman Ruth in 1951 takes the train to Manchester every friday, where she meets a man. But not everything is as it seems. “Have a nice weekend, Miss.” This one I liked, not amazing but good and [...]
I like movies. in general. it takes a little to make me really really dislike a movie, if I don’t especially like a story I can still watch the movie studying the technical tidbits like editing. But it also really takes a lot to make my absolutely LOVE a movie. Shortbus has managed to do [...]
gf and I went to see Gillery’s Little Secret, a movie night comprised of five short films, all but one dealing with forms of violence. Here’s my take on them.
Intent – directed by Mary Ann Marino, 14 min.
Intent focuses on Det. Jessica Cavallo, played by Torri Higginson of Stargate: Atlantis fame, who is hunting a [...]
At yesterday’s opening gala we got to see a nice movie and got the treat of director Alice Wu’s presence.
Saving Face is a nice movie, Alice Wu herself said that she wanted to make a classic romantic comedy – and she has succeeded. Saving Face doesn’t deal with racial issues, the characters just happen to [...]
identities – vienna’s only-and-only-every-fucking-second-year queer film festival – starts today and I/we have about 12 movies coming up in the next eight or nine days. I plan to write about all of them, but forgive me if I might crash before I am able to blog, cuz some of the films start at 10 pm [...]
