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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Sublet ★★★★

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox’s outstanding new feature Sublet, co-written with Itay Segal, opens with the arrival of a jetlagged and disorientated fifty something gay man, Michael (The Inheritance’s John Benjamin Hickey) to bustling Tel Aviv. He’s a travel writer for The New York Times who has come to uncover the “real” city over a five-day stay, subletting an apartment from a handsome…

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Rebel Dykes ★★★★★

Harri Shanahan and Sian Williams’ feature documentary Rebel Dykes, which receives its world premiere as part of the virtual 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival running March 17th to 28th and its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival on Friday March 19th, is a rousing, celebratory, and considered examination of London’s rebel dyke subculture of the 1980s and its legacy.…

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: No Ordinary Man ★★★★

Directors Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt take us on a thought-provoking and emotionally potent journey as they track the life and legacy of trans masculine icon American jazz musician Billy Tipton, who enjoyed a successful career in the 1940s and 50s. When he died in 1989 his story was co-opted and sensationalised by the media, portraying him as a woman who had been living his pubic and private…

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Cowboys ★★★★

Anna Kerrigan’s contemporary western Cowboys, which won two jury awards at last year’s Tribeca, with Steve Zahn taking best actor and Kerrigan winning for her screenplay and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest for newcomer Sasha Knight, is part of the virtual 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival March 17-28th 2021. As the film opens we take in some breathtaking vistas of rural…

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Film Review: Mama Gloria ★★★★

Luchina Fisher’s feature documentary Mama Gloria, currently making its New York premiere at the virtual 11th annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College until March 14th and part of the UK-wide 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival starting next week, tells the captivating life story of Chicago’s septuagenarian Black trans trailblazer and community leader, Gloria Allen. Mama Gloria ©…

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BFI Flare Film Review: P.S. Burn This Letter Please ★★★★★

The outstanding feature documentary P.S. Burn This Letter Please, now streaming in the US on Discovery+ and premiering iun the UK at 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, uncovers the history of New York’s drag queens of the 1950s and ’60s. Following the discovery of a box of old letters in a storage unit in Los Angeles in 2014, filmmakers Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera, making…

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35th BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival unveils full lineup available digitally UK-wide

Tickets are now on sale at bfi.org.uk/flare for the 35th edition of BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival which runs March 17th – 28th 2021. With 26 features and 38 free shorts from 23 countries, the UK’s longest running queer film event will deliver virtual premieres via BFI Player to audiences nationwide, making it the most accessible version of the festival yet, with closed captioning and…

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Outfest LA 2021 Film Review: Rebel Dykes ★★★★★

Harri Shanahan and Sian Williams’ feature documentary Rebel Dykes, which receives its Los Angeles premiere at Outfest LA 2021 on Saturday August 14th (also screening virtually August 15th-17th), is a rousing, celebratory, and considered examination of London’s rebel dyke subculture of the 1980s and its legacy. The film’s punky, DIY aesthetic captures the anarchic spirit of the trailblazing brave…

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman ★★★1/2

With an overview of the ACT UP story having been told in compelling and detailed documentaries such as Jim Hubbard’s United in Anger: A History of ACT UP and David France’s How to Survive a Plague, it’s pleasing to now see significant members being focused on individually, such as trans trailblazer Connie Norman, a broadcaster, columnist, and one of the public faces of ACT UP/LA. As it opens…

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Cured ★★★★

Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer’s riveting feature documentary Cured, which had its world premiere at Outfest and screens this month as part of the virtual 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, examines the fascinating chapter in queer history that saw gay liberation activists successfully overturn the US psychiatric profession’s classification of homosexuality as a mental illness.…

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