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
10 LGBT-interest titles at 2014’s London Film Festival
The BFI renewed its commitment to LGBT and queer film in March with the rebranding of the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival as BFI Flare. But LGBT film fans won’t have to wait for Flare 2015 for another sizeable crop of cinematic fun under the BFI banner: next month’s London Film Festival is positively bulging […]
Interview with Alternative Miss World’s Andrew Logan for Run Riot
I didn’t know much about Andrew Logan and his Alternative Miss World pageant – except that the current title-holder was that awesome powerhouse of alt burlesque and more, Fancy Chance – until I saw the documentary The British Guide to Showing Off last year. I was pretty awestruck by the sensibility, scale, longevity and accumulated […]
BFI Flare lights the touchpaper
Get those glad rags out… Tonight sees the launch of this year’s BFI Flare – the new name for the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – which runs until March 30. I previewed the event for Sight & Sound magazine and you can read my piece below (reprinted with permission). There’s also a round-up […]
10 things to see at BFI Flare (formerly LLGFF) 2014
Who doesn’t love a makeover? For more than a quarter of a century, it’s been the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival but last year, the British Film Institute decided it was time to change things up and went looking for a new name for the capital’s biggest queer screenfest. The result is BFI Flare […]
