Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Will Metzger mania never end? Image Entertainment’s ambitious program of releasing what appears to be just about every Radley Metzger film is a feast for completists and fans of the[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Radley Metzger’s first film and his veiled biopic of saintly slut Evita now on DVD. Radley Metzger’s fame rests largely on having brought sophistication to softcore porn in films like[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Three pioneering American neorealist indies: Little Fugitive, Weddings and Babies, Lovers and Lollipops “The concept of making the film almost unnoticed among crowds seemed to be working.” – Morris Engel, on[…]
Hitler’s hired hand and master filmmaker Riefenstahl is indeed both wonderful and horrible in Ray Muller’s 1993 documentary. Ray Müller’s monumental (3 hours-plus) The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl[…]
Music & Musicals · Pre-Code · Reviews
This 1934 musical mystery has girls, grins, guns, and Duke Ellington, too “Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world.” That was the legend above the entrance[…]
Hot licks and high kicks in a rare early musical The King of Jazz is a time machine. This 1929 musical, filmed in Technicolor, preserves a part of America’s musical[…]
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[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
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[…]
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
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?[…]
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 a movie – and a good one thanks to a sharp script and Jennifer Tilly * * * Relax . . . It’s Just[…]
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[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews · Uncategorized
What do Edie Sedgwick, Hedy Lamarr, Mary Woronov, and a pack of queer cowpokes have in common? Andy Warhol, natch. The Whitney Museum and New York MOMA’s restoration of Andy[…]
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[…]
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
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
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[…]
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[…]
“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[…]
