Exclusive Interview: Paris Is Burning director Jennie Livingston “I always felt that the balls were a kind of a church, a kind of ritual space”

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of Jennie Livingston's (they/them) landmark documentary Paris Is Burning, the Criterion Collection have issued the film on Blu-Ray for the first time in a stunning 2K digital restoration. Also available through Criterion on DVD, the new edition on both formats features over an hour of previously unseen outtakes, a new... Continue Reading →

March 26, 2020 0

BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

The British Film Institute has taken the difficult decision to cancel this year's LGBTQI+ Flare festival, two days before it was due to begin "due to the scale and complexity of running a large international film festival with filmmakers set to travel from across the world". In a statement released to media the BFI said,... Continue Reading →

March 16, 2020 0

34th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival Highlights

The British Film Institute’s annual LGBTIQ+ film festival Flare is back this month with an exciting lineup of more than 50 feature films, including a few The Queer Review favourites. From March 18th-29th the festival will fill the BFI Southbank with queer cinema, discussions, parties and more. Things kick off with the Opening Night world... Continue Reading →

March 6, 2020 0

MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Weekend at Anthology Film Archives Nov 23-24th

This weekend in New York, MIX NYC presents a weekend of Queer Experimental Film Programming at Anthology Film Archives over two evenings. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23rd: Program One: 7:15-8:30pm “Within There Runs Blood” presented by Eve Oishi and Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz This program represents the vision of two curators whose careers span twenty-five years, beginning with a... Continue Reading →

November 23, 2019 0

Exclusive Interview: Trans Bodybuilding Documentary Man Made Director T Cooper

Author of seven novels including The Beaufort Diaries and Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and the non-fiction book Real Man Adventures, T Cooper has had his writing appear in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Esquire, Harper’s and The Guardian. A graduate of Columbia University, he is currently a professor... Continue Reading →

November 19, 2019 0

Exclusive Interview: wrestler Mack Beggs “trans athletes have always been here, just like trans individuals”

The ESPN 30 for 30 documentary short film directed by Taylor Hess and Erin Sanger, Mack Wrestles, which premieres on ESPN this Sunday 22nd September takes a behind the scenes look at Mack Beggs, a gifted athlete from Euless, Texas, facing the stigmatization of transgender athletes. Mack, who is also one of the subjects of... Continue Reading →

September 20, 2019 1

TIFF 2019: LGBTQ+ Preview

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 →

August 28, 2019 1

TV Review: Pose Season 2 Finale – Episode 10 “In My Heels” ★★★★★

*N.B. May contain unintentional Pose Season 2 spoilers.*The Category is...Season 2 Finale Extravaganza! Brilliantly by directed Janet Mock, who made television history last season as the first trans woman of colour to write, direct and produce for a series, this marks the second episode Mock has directed this season, and its one the most satisfying.... Continue Reading →

August 20, 2019 0

Tribeca TV Festival Closing Night: Transparent Musicale Finale Premiere

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 →

August 13, 2019 0