Explicitly playing with gender and gender performance has been foundational to Swinton’s career and identity as a performer. Swinton’s queer identity emerges …
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HotDocs 2016: Conversations with the creative team behind essential doc Check It
We talk to Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer, the directors of Check It , a new documentary that follows several members of the inspiring gay and …
Vogueing at Berlinale: Kiki and Strike a Pose
Despite being a rather niche subject, two documentary films about vogueing competed in the Panorama Documentary section at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. …
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Sandy Powell’s costumes in Carol tell what words can’t
Sam Woolf analyses how Carol costume designer Sandy Powell used clothing and accessories to communicate how two starkly different women refashion one another …
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Being 17 is more Sciamma’s than Techiné’s film
Berlinale correspondent Elena Lazic reviews and praises Being 17. Although it was written by Céline Sciamma and directed by André Techiné, it's got Sciamma's …
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Nasty Baby is a half-baked bougie satire
Nasty Baby starts out as a typically progressive, indie premise — the gay version of Friends with Kids — and becomes increasingly psychologically complex before …
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