Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q. Lazzarus

Q Lazzarus was a uniquely talented woman, but her story of being black and talented and it still not being enough is unfortunately not unique.  What starts as a story of daring to dream of being a rockstar as a fat black woman shifts and changes into a very real very…

Blue Ghosts

A story about being black, talented, and “unmarketable” in America. The first act of this is an interesting enough doc about a one hit wonder, but once we rush through Q Lazzarus's glances with fame and her pursuit of a music career worthy of her talents, we finally settle…

Joshua Dysart

What I loved so much about this film is that after every obstacle that came her way, Q found the strength to pick herself back up. Aridjis-Fuentes largely lets Q tell her own story, and she appears to tell it warts and all. She’s funny and effervescent, even when her story…

Marya E. Gates

heart shattering and essential. she is genuinely the coolest person ever and her warmth and personality radiate through this ❤️‍🩹

amelia

¿Por qué hay tan buenas documentalistas mexicanas? ¿Qué pasó? ¿Qué tomaron? ¿Dónde se consigue esa sensibilidad? ¿Esa capacidad para penetrar a lo más profundo de un tema, de un personaje, de un problema?  Goodbye Horses es de los mejores documentales que haya visto. Está…

Sofía Téllez

such a raw and real encapsulation of her life. i feel truly blessed to have seen this. i relate to parts of her story in so many ways. knowing you are meant to do something beautiful and great with your life, but feeling like people are not listening to you in the ways that…

bryanna

Modern culture needs less of the cult of QAnon and more of the cult of Q Lazzarus. Sneakily makes you think it's a stock, low-budget music documentary about a one-hit wonder before it locks into maybe the pop culture scoop of the decade, until it then locks in again to a…

Ian

It’s unbelievably important that this film was made and that such a beautiful artist’s story was capture for posterity but the tragedies she endured, the barriers she faced which kept her from artistically flourishing, and (especially) the ways the she was failed by the…

Drew

It can be a depressing and frustrating portrait of a clearly talented woman with star quality who was never given a real chance because she didn’t look like what marketing executives knew how to promote. Being featured in 4 consecutive Jonathan Demme films and scoring a…

Jason Drews