He was thinking that the young years behind him, hollow and colourful, had been lived in facile and vacillating cynicism upon the recorded emotions of men long dust

MASS IN
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Myles Cameron

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Prettysoon, new music from Myles Cameron.

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

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Tremors

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When his wealthy, ultra-conservative family learn that Pablo, a married father of two, has been having an affair with another man they stage an immediate intervention. Despite the vehement protestations of his scandalised relatives, Pablo attempts to stay true to himself, making the bold decision to move in with Francisco, his lover. Losing his old home, but never quite feeling settled in his new one, Pablo exists in an isolated state of limbo until his determined family turn to the church in the hope that their wayward son can be "cured". 

Shot within darkly lit interiors that enhance the claustrophobic atmosphere of oppression, Bustamante’s stiflingly tense, often devastating exploration of destructive societal and religious pressures is an indelible experience that’s impossible to forget.   BFI.

Tremors, a film by Jayro Bustamante.

Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realised by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in the horizon

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Medhane

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Whispers/Walk With Me, new music from Medhane.

You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force

MASS IN
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Back Street

TIRED OLD

QUEEN

AT THE

MOVIES

Academy Award winner Susan Hayward gets the star treatment as only producer Ross Hunter could delver in Universal’s lavish production of Fannie Hurst’s classic, romantic, weepie; Back Street (1961).

Gowned by legendary designer Jean Louis, whose designs were Oscar nominated, Susan runs the gamut of emotions and is romanced by handsome John Gavin and tortured by his dipsomaniac, wealthy wife Vera Miles. Shot in breathtaking Technicolor, it’s high melodrama, lots of suds and the perfect Autumn romance.  Steve Hayes

Trouble is when you’re sober you don’t want to see anybody, and when you’re tight nobody wants to see you

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The Wound

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Shortlisted for 2018 Academy Awards® for best foreign language film, The Wound is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s Xhosa culture.

Every year, the tribe’s young men are brought to the mountains of the Eastern Cape to participate in an ancient coming-of-age ritual. Xolani, a quiet and sensitive factory worker (played by openly gay musician Nakhane Touré), is assigned to guide Kwanda, a city boy from Johannesburg sent by his father to be toughened up, through this rite of passage into manhood. As Kwanda defiantly negotiates his queer identity within this masculine environment, he quickly recognizes the nature of Xolani’s relationship with fellow guide Vija. The three men commence a dangerous dance with each other and their own desires and, soon, the threat of exposure elevates the tension to breaking point.

The Wound, a film directed by John Trengove.

My own rule is to let everything alone

MASS IN
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Tom Goss

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Berlin, new music from Tom Goss.

it's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic taste

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Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...

MASS IN
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Human Warmth

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Antoine loves being close to Bruno. He loves his warmth. He needs it. But comes the time of detachment, when the body stops responding.

Human Warmth, a film directed by Christophe Predari.

Life is a series of successful gestures...

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Black Pumas

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Colors, new music from Black Pumas.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair

MASS IN
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Matt Palmer

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Namastè, new music from Hardbros, featuring Matt Palmer.

There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice

MASS IN
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FHAT

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Meet Jackson and Hunter. It’s the year 1973 and those two troublemakers are about to embark on a mad and funky journey, igniting a fight to save Humanity from a dark project.

Packin', new music from FHAT.

He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room

MASS IN
M O T I O N

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Mathew V

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Stay By You, new music from Mathew V.

(They kiss - definitely and thoroughly.)

MASS IN
M O T I O N

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Radiator

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In Radiator, Portia A. Buckley explores a young working-class man's drug addiction as he travels across rural Ireland with nothing but his grandmother's radiator to finance his next hit.

All the bright precious things fade so fast

MASS IN
M O T I O N

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Saro

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Snowblind, new music from Saro.

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad

MASS IN
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LIE NING

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Alright, new music from 22-year-old Berlin artist LIE NING. His EP Traffic Songs For In Between Traffic is out now. Get it.

The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land

MASS IN
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SXMSON

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Memory, new music from SXMSON.

I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way

MASS IN
M O T I O N

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Noah Slee

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Do That, new music from Noah Slee, featuring the Berlin vogue community.

...he told me all the things he liked to think he thought in the misty past

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Golden Boy

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S K O O L

A   F I L M   I S   A   P E T R I F I E D   F O U N T A I N   O F   T H O U G H T

Golden Boy is the story of James (Mark Elias), a young man who gambles on the dangers of being seen versus the quiet life of desperation and invisibility. Saved from doomed nonexistence by CQ, a wealthy debonair businessman with more going on than meets the eye, and introduced to a world he is not ready to navigate. We follow him as he chases his dreams – while losing himself, one piece at a time.

Golden Boy is a story with universal themes. Trust. Seduction. Betrayal. Redemption.

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler

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Don't Look Down

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A   F I L M   I S   A   P E T R I F I E D   F O U N T A I N   O F   T H O U G H T

In this seductive, mysterious drama, versatile French duo Ducastel and Martineau (Theo and Hugo) have made one of their most inventive films. In a high-rise apartment, a woman and five men gather to share their experiences of a man that they have all been involved with, to their cost. In the main room, they talk, drink, dance, while one by one, each goes next door for a private moment of truth. Theatrical in the best sense, the film turns the apartment into a stage for a superb ensemble cast.

Alongside echoes of Fassbinder and one-set dramas like Hitchcock’s Rope, Manuel Marmier’s photography and unconventional lighting make this a sculptural celebration of space and colour, as well as a psychological nail-biter.   BFI

Don't Look Down, a new film from Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute

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A T H L E T E

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Jacob Banks

BEATS

RHYMES

& LIFE
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Unknown (To You), new music from Jacob Banks.

Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman

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Todrick Hall

BEATS

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& LIFE
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Go behind the scenes on Todrick Hall's future classic, FAG.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis - a moulding of the confusion of life into form

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The Last Black Man In San Francisco

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Jimmie (Jimmie Fails) dreams of reclaiming the beautiful late 19th century home his grandfather built in the heart of the city, before harder times and changing demographics forced his family out. He and best friend Mont (Jonathan Majors) scheme to make this happen while Jimmie annoys the sitting tenants with guerrilla gardening on the beloved Fillmore house. A skateboarder and dreamy, suit-wearing playwright, the pair are at odds with the tough guys around the neighbourhood, and spend their time working to deliver Jimmie’s dream while living with Mont’s grandfather (Danny Glover).

Occasionally, a film comes around that thrillingly invents its own cinematic rhythms, perfectly suited to its subject. The Last Black Man in San Francisco is such a film and it’s one to make your head sing and heart soar.   BFI