Crime · Drama · Sex & Relationships · SF & Fantasy
This leaves the provocateur director herself in her role as catalyst for the mayhem to follow as the ultimate filmic presence wreaking its influence on others. Assigned only the title[…]
Horror · Indies · Mental Illness · Sex & Relationships · SF & Fantasy
It is not that there is something wrong with Jodorowsky’s perseveration on sex and violence per se; it is that he is not saying anything about it. It is an[…]
Counterculture · Indies · LGBT & Queer · Sex & Relationships
Portrait of Rick Castro by Nadine Dinter, used with permission of the photographer Rick Castro talks to Tony Conn about his film Hustler White, his varied career, and his[…]
Comedy · LGBT & Queer · Sex & Relationships · Uncategorized
As seen with Jordan and Mateo, Silva extends his self-fictionalization to most of the cast, taking actors and regurgitating them as screen versions of themselves. Sometimes the cinematic portraits come[…]
Actors & Personalities · Pre-Code · Sex & Relationships · Women in Film
West is a born outlaw, a queen of the underworld who knows that two and two are four but five will get you 10 if you know how to work[…]
African American · Drama · LGBT & Queer · Sex & Relationships
The visual style shows people as essentially solitary, a remarkable choice of perspective in view of the importance of the wider social realities – racial and sexual – that “create”[…]
Cityscapes · Counterculture · Directors · Drama · Sex & Relationships
“I reckon LA as the noisiest, the smelliest, the most uncomfortable and most uncivilized major city in the United States. In short, a stinking sewer. . . .”1 – Adam[…]
Comedy · Counterculture · Drama · Sex & Relationships
Concepts of sex and marriage have changed monumentally in the last few decades and still today prove endlessly malleable and undefinable. We spend our whole lives attempting to shape our[…]
