Tag: The Queer Review

Exclusive Interview: Ryan White on his Netflix Pamela Anderson doc “she’s a gay icon & huge ally”

Through his production company Triod Media, co-cofounded with producer Jessica Hargrave, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Ryan White has spent the last decade making an eclectic range of impactful documentaries. From LGBTQ+ topics, such as The Case Against 8 exploring the case to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban and the road the Supreme Court, the evolution of representation... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2023 Film Review: Slow ★★★1/2

Lithuanian filmmaker Marija Kavtaradze's sophomore narrative feature Slow, which premiered in the World Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival—winning that section's Directing Award—is a tender study of a new couple navigating their own brand of intimacy. In the film's opening frames, sexually liberated dancer Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė) is in bed with a man... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2023 Film Review: Fancy Dance ★★★★

Queer Native American filmmaker Erica Tremblay returns to Sundance following 2020's Grand Jury Prize nominated short Little Chief, with her poignant directorial narrative feature debut (co-written with Miciana Alise), Fancy Dance. Executive produced by Bird Runningwater, Charlotte Koh, and Forest Whitaker, the film received its world premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at this year's... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2023 Review: The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s’est réveillé) eps 1-2 ★★★★★

The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé), sees French Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan continue to explore the complex and compelling relationship between mothers and sons, following his auspicious 2009 debut feature I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) and his breathtaking 2014 Cannes Jury Prize-winning masterpiece Mommy. The entire... Continue Reading →

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Sundance 2023 Film Review: Mutt ★★★★

Writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz—an alum of Ryan Murphy's HALF Initiative, who mentored under Janet Mock on Pose—makes an impressive feature debut with Mutt, executive produced by Silas Howard, which just received its world premiere in the US Dramatic Competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The action opens in a bustling New York club, as a... Continue Reading →

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