Documentaries · Writers & Critics
Yesteryear’s brilliant wags are apparently this year’s terminal bores Film historians and social anthropologists will applaud Kino Video’s recent release of Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. Viewers[…]
Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The auteur of Petticoat Planet and Retro-Puppetmaster discusses his the kinky leatherboy arthouse epic Leather Jacket Love Story and other things How much did Leather Jacket Love Story (1998) cost?[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The pleasures and terrors of Old Hollywood from a master manipulator Movies have so much in common with dreams that one of Hollywood’s most enduring nicknames has been “the dream[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Metzger madness begins in earnest with the release of four of his best on DVD “Art” has long functioned as a code word for erotica in certain contexts. Phrases like[…]
Clash of the titans: Hemingway meets Hawks At approximately 200 pages long and driven by dialogue and a memorable protagonist, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not had all of[…]
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
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[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
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
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[…]
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[…]
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
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
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
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
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[…]
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 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
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
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[…]
“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 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[…]
