Steven Spielberg: A Jew in America: Deconstructing Catch Me If You Can
“If only I knew then what I know now.”
Category: Genres
His Brother’s Keeper: Steve James’ Stevie
The ills of this wounded Everyman may be beyond healing.
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Slaughter Rule to Frida to Hell House
Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews
The Sound of Jazz, the Sound of Gene: New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman
New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman. But where’s Thelonious?
What’s Rita in the Hay Worth?: Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
From Joy Luck to Better Luck: The title is a little too accurate
The title is a little too accurate
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
Desperately Seeking Ginger: Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers Deprived
Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers-Deprived.
Bad Film, Great Soundtrack: New Orleans on DVD
How Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday saved New Orleans from the Yankees
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
Directors · Experimental & Underground
An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory
Those crazy “cut-ups” Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch restored to their rightful place in avant-garde film history Preface This is the first serious critical study to contextualize the films of Burroughs,[…]
Chicago: Hollywood Does Bollywood
No one can steal like America can steal Wish you could look like Leo, dance like Fred, and sing like Frank? Well, of course you do, but you can’t, and[…]
Composers · Music & Musicals · Reviews
Weill & Brecht: The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny on DVD
Show us the way to the next pretty boy Don’t know much about history? Well, don’t sweat it, because Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht didn’t either when they decided to[…]
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control on DVD
“We’ve agreed to be part of a collective perception … To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as[…]
“I Don’t Know Dick”: Heavy Metal 2000 on DVD
“The ‘key’ to the ‘chamber’ of immortality looks like a glowing white penis” Contrary to the title of this review, anyone who knows the prolific output – 92 B-movies since[…]
The Bowery: Raoul Walsh’s Gangs of New York
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed! Back in 1933, The Bowery scored a big hit, introducing Darryl Zanuck’s new independent venture called Twentieth Century Pictures, yet this nostalgic[…]
Undisputed: Wesley Snipes vs. Ving Rhames
Cinema meets the sweet science at the multiplex, and nobody gets knocked out After a long hot summer of mismatches in 2002, we finally got to see a competitive heavyweight[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
Estela Bravo’s Fidel (2001), a Documentary
This documentary offers an affectionate, in-depth portrait of the enduring world leader who stood up to the U.S. Over the course of the last 40 years, the CIA has tried[…]
Ho-hum Intrigue in Barcelona: Gaudi Afternoon on DVD
It’s little wonder this yawner didn’t get a theatrical release Gaudi Afternoon, a 2001 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival entry, never got a theatrical distributor and has[…]
Links + BSA
