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“The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela” – Maitland McDonagh reviews

September 25, 2008 Maitland McDonagh alliance of women film journalists, amazing truth about queen raquela, female critics, film criticism, film journalists, maitland mcdonagh, movie review, movie reviews, queer cinema, women critics, women film critics, women film directors, women film journalists, women in film

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Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s uneasy documentary/fiction hybrid — he likes the term “visiomentary” — was inspired by the life of Raquela Rios and other Filipino “ladyboys” — transgendered men who live as women but retain their male anatomy. Read more>>

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Maitland McDonagh

Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).