Following its world premiere at Cannes in 2019 writer/director Levan Akin's gay coming of age drama And Then We Danced went on to enjoy a hugely successful international festival run, including showings at last month's Sundance, picking up awards in cities such as Chicago, New York and Montréal. The premiere in Tbilisi, Georgia, where the... Continue Reading →
The movie musical is having a resurgence (as it is prone to do in times of hardship) thanks to films like La La Land, Frozen and The Greatest Showman (*cough*awfulrubbish*cough*) So London's BFI Southbank is raising its jazz hands and kicking up its heals with a season of films dedicated to movie musicals. Sorry, I... Continue Reading →
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival is coming (October 2nd - 13th 2019) and the programme has a wealth of queer and queer-friendly films from around the world (not to mention some blockbuster presentations). Here are The Queer Review’s LFF 2019 LGBTQ+ highlights. Matthias & Maxime Xavier Dolan returns to his roots by writing, directing... 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 →
What do you call a rom-com without the com? Technically From Zero to I Love You isn’t a comedy. It’s a gay romance through and through, but it has all the tropes of a rom-com. From the meet-cute, the therapist, the art-gallery job, the zippy title, the improbable scenarios, the side-kicks whose only function is... Continue Reading →
BFI Southbank will screen the BBC Film Stonewall (1995), not to be confused with the best forgotten 2015 Roland Emmerich film of the same, on Friday 28th June 2019 at 6.15pm. The special screening on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising will be introduced by the film's writer Rikki Beadle-Blair and producer Anthony Wall.... Continue Reading →
Derek Jarman's The Garden (1990) screens at the BFI Southbank this Friday 21st June, in a newly restored 4K scan, followed by a Q&A with the film's producer James MacKay and costume designer Annie Symons. The cast features Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald and Pete Lee-Wilson. As BFI curator William Fowler notes about The... Continue Reading →
The trailer for year's BFI Flare London LGBTQ+Film Festival has just been revealed and features glimpses of festival highlights such as the Closing Night Gala, Justin Kelly’s JT Leroy starring Laura Dern and Kristen Stewart. The catchy song used throughout the trailer is Falling performed by Drama. The 2019 BFI Flare LGBTQ+ London Film Festival runs at... Continue Reading →
