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[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
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
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
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
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[…]
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[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Ronald Tavel, Mario Montez, and Edie Sedgwick strut their superstardom in these early works by the master of pop kitsch camp For most people, the quintessential “Andy Warhol film” is[…]
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[…]
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
When gender gets in the way, as it so often does, these gender pioneers say “Change it!” Trannies of every stripe — drag queens and kings, transsexuals, intersexuals, etc. —[…]
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[…]
An arresting look at the limited lives of four New York singles, playing themselves British director Nicholas Barker’s New York cult hit Unmade Beds has an unintended effect that will[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
The supreme masterpiece of the poetic documentary form Three recent views of Cuba: the repressive, fragmented, poverty-stricken last gasp of modern Communism offered by the U.S. media; the wonderland of[…]
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[…]
