The reason burlesque, drag and cabaret performers should see Channing Tatum’s new male-stripper movie. Okay, another reason.
Five highlights from BFI Flare 2015
Festival report on BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival 2015 including Dressed as a Girl, The New Girlfriend, Tab Hunter Confidential, 54: The Director’s Cut, Save the Tavern and Something Must Break
BFI Flare 2015 preview for Sight & Sound
A preview (first published in Sight & Sound) of the 2015 edition of BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival, including I Am Michael, 54: The Director’s Cut, Dressed as a Girl and a range of archive and documentary work
Mother love: Xavier Dolan interview for Sight & Sound
An interview for Sight & Sound with Xavier Dolan, the young Quebecois director whose films are marked by domestic powerplay, exuberant aestheticism, lustful violence and his recurring obsession, mother love
Sight & Sound article about older LGBT people on film
An article from the March 2015 issue of Sight & Sound about the recent rise in visibility of older LGBT characters in film
How can two dozen drag queens in a TV studio be so boring?
This week there was an all-drag audience on Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. What does the fact that the show was deathly dull tell us about drag culture today?
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
DVD review: In Their Room by Travis Mathews
Travis Mathews’s three sexy documentaries about men at home in San Francisco, Berlin and London add up to a snapshot of queer life today
Meet Ernst and Röbi, real-life stars of gay-rights docudrama The Circle
I’ve been a bit obsessed this year with the idea of a ‘backward turn’ in LGBTQ cinema – a spike in interest in stories about the past, expressed through attention to period dramas, documentaries about historic subjects and greater screen presence for older LGBTQ people. (Here’s the Guardian piece where I set the idea out.) […]
Death by luxury: the threat to culture and the power of coffins in the street
Lately, it seems that barely a week goes by without news of one of London’s seminal underground, alternative or queer venues being closed or threatened with closure…
