Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”
Author: Gary Morris
Gary Morris founded Bright Lights Film Journal as a print publication in 1974; it became a web-only magazine in 1996. He is the author of the monograph Roger Corman (Twayne Publishers, 1985) and the editor of Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran (Anthem Press, 2009).
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Defending the Deviates: Evelyn Hooker Documentary Changing Our Minds on Video
“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
Ai, Robot! Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD
A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip
“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD
Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics
“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book
“The butler did it … to everyone!”
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Al Adamson to Doing Time, Doing Vipasanna to Scopitones
“Love tramps seduced by creatures from the grave! Yesterday they were cold and dead today they’re hot and bothered!”
Asian · Crime · SF & Fantasy
Camp Carnage: Takashi Miiker’s Full Metal Yakuza
And Frankenstein begat Robocop, which begat Ken
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Outside In: Three Documentaries on Gary Wilson, Jandek, and Song Poems
“We accept you, we accept you, gibble gobble, gibble gobble…”
American Apocalypse: Craig Baldwin’s Spectres of the Spectrum
“An infinite number of possible worlds … and this is the worst one.”
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Backyard to Dagon to What Are You Going to Do for Toilet Paper?
Tormented Christians, hacker boyz, cannibal queers, fish people you know, all those folks who keep it real
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Black Rose 2 to Moebius to Wattstax
“I love people reading things with hearts!”
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
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