Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
The Jackson Twins: What Next for Michael and Janet?
The crazy careers of the King of Pop and his Queenly Sister – or is it the other way around? For more than a decade, starting in 1986 when she[…]
Category: Artists
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
“Need a Light, Cowboy?” Tony & Rock Go Down on Doris in Pillow Talk
Are Rock and Doris Hollywood’s strangest romantic team? How about Rock and Tony Randall? These things happened: Tony Randall picked Rock Hudson up in a bar with the line “Need[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews
“I’m Not the Statue of Liberty”: An Interview with Sylvia Miles
The dragon-voiced diva chats us up Sylvia Miles’ reputation in the 1970s was based on three things: her 6-minute bit as a New York hooker in Midnight Cowboy, her peerless[…]
All Is Grace: The films of Robert Bresson
Poetry in motion: Bresson resurrected and renewed There aren’t many art forms where commercial success is relentlessly equated with aesthetic worth. In painting, the idea that Walter Keane is a[…]
Dark Truths: Notes on William Friedkin
Presenting the impresario of the deviant demimonde: William Friedkin William Friedkin’s career is a study in contradictions. A liberal intellectual by nature who made two of the most notorious works[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Uncategorized
Sadie Benning’s Pixel Pleasures
What mysterious force lay behind the teenage grrrl’s crudely drawn but strangely evocative masks? Sadie Benning has been a cause celebre in the queer community for almost a decade. Born[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
“Sorry! It Had to Be Done!” Radical Actioner Kurt Kren
Presenting Kurt Kren — humble bank teller by day, radical action naked performance artist by night! The exigencies of living and working miles from the mainstream can prevent even the[…]
Directors · Music & Musicals · Reviews
Paul Morrissey on DVD: Four Camp Classics
Sluts, stoners, and screeching drag queens decorate Morrissey’s curdled campfests Gerri Miller: “You used to be dynamite, Joe. Don’t you miss it?” Joe Dallesandro: “Uh … yeah.” – Trash It’s[…]
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Reviews · Visual Artists
Love Stories: Pierre et Gilles (1997)
The love in this film about the two lost boys of Eurotrash art is mostly self-love. The art of Pierre and Gilles, affectionately known as P&G, has always been a[…]
Frank Capra’s American Dream (Kenneth Bowser, 1997)
This beloved film artist was driven as much by self-doubt as by his belief in the power of the “little man” The rise of Frank Capra from sickly, abused, impoverished[…]
Thanhouser Classics: Long-Lost Pleasures from the Dawn of Cinema
Thanhouser produced 1,000+ titles between 1909 and 1917, but less than 200 survive. Silent cinema is often written off, even by cinephiles who pride themselves on their intimate knowledge of[…]
LGBT & Queer · Reviews · Visual Artists
Devoutly Elusive: Love Is the Devil (John Maybury, 1998)
Timid top George Dyer meets pushy bottom Francis Bacon, with art and death the inevitable result In a typical moment in this artful biopic of Francis Bacon, the ultra-queer painter[…]
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer
The Sissy Gaze in American Cinema
Shed a tear for that shimmering, noble, lost creature of the cinema — the sissy! What’s wrong with Hollywood? Nowadays you hear everyone asking that. This very morning, I heard[…]
Goosing Mother Goose: The Fairy Tales of Tex Avery
“Fairy tales, unlike any other form of literature, direct the child to discover his identity and calling, and they also suggest what experiences are needed to develop his character further.” –[…]
The Spirit Moves: The World of Kenji Mizoguchi
The roots of artistry are often sought in autobiography, and for filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, this seems an especially appropriate place to start. Mizoguchi, with Ozu and Kurosawa one of the three undisputed masters from[…]
A Quickie Look at the Life & Career of Tex Avery
As if radically rethinking the Hollywood cartoon weren’t enough, our boy Tex can also be thanked for inventing or perfecting Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and perhaps the greatest character in[…]
Oscar Fischinger’s Visual Music: Ten Short Films by the Master Animator on DVD
Film historians have made much, and rightly so, of the enormous influence of 1930s German and Austrian émigrés on the American film scene and by extension on American culture in[…]
Kurosawa on Video: Stray Dog, The Bad Sleep Well, The Lower Depths
Three of Kurosawa’s scathing critiques of Japanese society past and present – in beautiful new video transfers. Akira Kurosawa has been seen as one of the three components of a[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Seduction Is Universal: Thoughts on Radley Metzger
The master of Euro-erotica is starting to get his due in recent revivals The “golden age” of porn during the ’60s and ’70s was more fool’s gold than real for[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Producers & Studios · Reviews
Albert Zugsmith’s Opium Dreams: Confessions of an Opium Eater
Can one man’s brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.[…]
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