https://mrqe.com Sun, 03 May 2026 08:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/last-supper-m100020870/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/last-supper-m100020870/ In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/feedback-m100045901/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/feedback-m100045901/ Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-death-and-life-of-marsha-p-johnson-m100120345/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-death-and-life-of-marsha-p-johnson-m100120345/ Describing herself as a ‘street queen,’ Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York Citys gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYCs Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/superstar-in-a-housedress-m100017753/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/superstar-in-a-housedress-m100017753/ Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as A pioneer without a frontier. In this biographical documentary, Curtiss co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtiss Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/pie-in-the-sky-the-brigid-berlin-story-m100038775/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/pie-in-the-sky-the-brigid-berlin-story-m100038775/ Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/jonas-in-the-desert-m100081673/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jonas-in-the-desert-m100081673/ Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas – one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/shadows-in-the-city-m100047542/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/shadows-in-the-city-m100047542/ Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/busters-bedroom-m100117907/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/busters-bedroom-m100117907/ A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-queen-of-sheba-meets-the-atom-man-m100041934/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-queen-of-sheba-meets-the-atom-man-m100041934/ New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de dont […] The awed couple do battle with the status quo and teach the world to dance on the head of a bin. Rice detects real dignity in Bryan and amazing grace in Mead as they essay solitary promenades through the parks, subways and streets of a wintery New York landscape. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice, edited and scored by Taylor Mead. Edward Leffingwell

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/underground-usa-m100066008/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/underground-usa-m100066008/ The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York’s upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol’s lost children. We’ve been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler’s meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell’s ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.

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