Crime · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Hell in the Heartland: Boys Don’t Cry
These boys do, and so do the girls The credits for Boys Don’t Cry list “Killer Films” as one of the production companies, and that’s as apt a description of[…]
Category: LGBT & Queer
Shifting Sexualities: Bedrooms and Hallways
The Go Fish queen goes fishing again – this time for gay boys and the men and women who love them Rose Troche’s Go Fish (1994) was one of the[…]
Deadly Crawl: The Velocity of Gary
The “velocity” of this misguided AIDS drama never materializes Director Dan Ireland made an impressive debut in 1997 with The Whole Wide World, a sleeper about the 1930s pulp writer[…]
Unhappy, Critic: Happy, Texas
Mark Illsley’s dicey debut feature about faux gay cons in the hideous heartland One sign of the maturing of a community is its ability to laugh at itself, something that[…]
Draining the Drama: Simon Shore’s Get Real
This mixed-bag British coming out drama doesn’t quite come out. A film with scenes of a trim 16-year-old schoolboy dawdling decoratively outside a public toilet hoping a trick will stroll[…]
All Roads Lead to Love: Tanya Wexler’s Finding North
A good-natured low-budget road movie with a queer twist With occasional exceptions like Philadelphia, the “AIDS movie” has been mostly a ghetto genre, so much so that many of these[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Ask, Tell: Documentaries in the 1999 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Gendernauts, military drag queens, communist queers – and, oh yes, John Waters distinguish this year’s docs. Those who make them and those who follow them have long lamented the lack[…]
Empty Closets: The 1999 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
For the SFILGFF, this is the year of the closet – empty! The proportion of successes to stinkers is reassuringly high in this year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay[…]
Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Ellen Cabot – no, Victoria Sloan -, no, David DeCoteau Speaks!
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?[…]
A Realm of Pure Feeling: Defying Gravity (1997)
This sweet film about queer fratboys in love defies the odds, too. Summer is when the studios unleash their biggest potential moneymakers, which this year have also turned out to[…]
Relax . . . It’s Just Sex (1999)
Relax . . . it’s just a movie – and a good one thanks to a sharp script and Jennifer Tilly * * * Relax . . . It’s Just[…]
Three Homo Classics on DVD: Sex Is . . ., A Very Natural Thing, To Play or to Die
Three historic gay movies from Water Bearer Films It was inevitable that the DVD market would move beyond the blockbusters and so-called reference disks (those mindless actioners like Armageddon whose[…]
Edge of Seventeen (1999): Coming of Age and Coming Out in the Glamorous ’80s
Teenage coming-of-age romantic comedies were once exclusively hetero terrain. Homophobic Hollywood couldn’t conceive of a queer Pretty in Pink during the 1980s, when John Hughes reigned supreme at the box[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Four Metzger Classics on DVD: Therese and Isabelle; Camille 2000; The Lickerish Quartet; Score
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[…]
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Of Loincloths and Lamé: “Sons of Hercules” at the 1999 SFILGFF
These mincing musclequeens might as well be Hercules’ daughters! Among the 1999 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival’s dog-and-pony shows, Sons of Hercules promises to be one of the[…]
Sweet Music: The Boys in the Band (1970)
“Seven tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer” — our beloved boys are all dressed up and back on screen. If William Friedkin’s grim gay thriller Cruising (1980) continues[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Mike Hoolboom’s Panic Bodies (1997)
The tragedy of the temporal dominates the work of this gifted Canadian experimental filmmaker In the opening segment of Panic Bodies (1998), Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolboom talks poetically about the[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Hallelujah and Pass the Steak Knife: Cutting Up with Ron Athey (1998)
Flashing needles and literal crowns of thorn mark the work — and the body — of performance artist Ron Athey Modern primitives don’t get quite the respect they used to.[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
“My Penis! Where Is My Penis?” John Greyson’s Uncut (1997)
The man who gave us Urinal and Lillies now turns his playful eye on circumcision, copyright, and Pierre Trudeau. In his early short film, The Making of Monsters (1991), Canadian[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Edgeplay, Anyone? Everett Lewis’s Skin and Bone (1996)
Writer-director Everett Lewis takes us, ready or not, into a particularly nasty demimonde. With the increasing mainstreaming of cinematic homosexuality, there’s a distinct allure to movies that insist on showing[…]
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