The 44th Toronto International Film Festival opens this Thursday 5th September, with public tickets now on sale. TIFF 2019 features new work from filmmakers such as Marielle Heller, the Safdie brothers, Pedro Almodóvar, Steven Soderbergh, Noah Baumbach, Amy Jo Johnson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ira Sachs, Lorene Scafaria and Taika Waititi, as well as the final film... Continue Reading →
With the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) opening on Thursday 5th September, The Queer Review takes a look at some of this year's LGBTQ+ related highlights taking in feature films, documentaries, shorts and animation. Recent years at TIFF have delivered award winning LGBTQ+ gems including BPM (Beats Per Minute), Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Call Me By... Continue Reading →
Join the Los Angeles LGBT Center for Out Under the Stars this Friday 16th August for a special screening of Labyrinth at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This fun summer night, benefiting the Center’s programs and services, will feature amazing food and drink from Los Angeles vendors, DJ, celebrity guest appearances and more. Come early to... Continue Reading →
This year's Tribeca TV Festival will close with the premiere of the final episode of Amazon's Transparent, which ends the series following the departure of Jeffrey Tambor. The Transparent “Musicale Finale” sees the Emmy and Golden Globe winning series morph into a dazzling movie fantasia inspired by classic musicals. According to the Tribeca TV announcement, "when the... Continue Reading →
According to The Queer Review's Chad Armstrong's ★★★★★ review, Lucio Castro’s debut feature End of the Century "has the essence of a fleeting affair that burns itself into your memory for years to come, and shows a confident authorial voice that holds a lot of promise." Ahead of the film's official New York release this Friday 16th... Continue Reading →
The original television series Queer as Folk turned twenty this year. As part of their Nineties: Young Cinema Rebels programme, London’s British Film Institute (BFI) brought show creator Russell T. Davies on stage (hailed as a TV Gamechanger) for a fun and freewheeling discussion about the show that marked a landmark change in LGBTQ representation.... Continue Reading →
Record Time is a moving image program curated byCarmel Curtis and Leeroy Kun Young Kang for Visual AIDS at Anthology Film Archives, New York, this Thursday 8th August at 7:30pm. The program features work spanning from 1989–2015 by Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto, Colin Campbell, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Hayat Hyatt, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Barbara Hammer, and Jim... Continue Reading →
MyGenderation hosts Film Night tonight, Friday 19th July 2019 at Brighton's Duke of York’s Picture House as part of the 7th annual Trans Pride Brighton and Hove. My Genderation is an ongoing film project that celebrates trans lives and experiences and tonight’s programme is a diverse collection of trans-related films, created by trans filmmakers or... Continue Reading →
The inaugural 51Fest, "celebrating the voice, vision and stories of the female majority" takes place in New York 18th - 21st July 2019. Presented by Women in the World and IFC Center, 51Fest builds on the mission of the Women in the World Summit, founded by Tina Brown in 2009, to amplify and celebrate women’s... Continue Reading →
