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His Brother’s Keeper: Steve James’ Stevie

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Steven Spielberg: A Jew in America: Deconstructing Catch Me If You Can

  • July 31, 2003

“If only I knew then what I know now.”

Essays · Genres

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An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music

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On cliche, culture, and locating national identity in Wise’s epic musical

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Dancing with Werewolves: John Sayles in Roger Corman’s Hollywood

  • July 31, 2003

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Up/Down with Retro: Three Recent Hits — Down with Love, Ocean’s Eleven, Catch Me If You Can — Retrofit the Sixties

  • July 31, 2003

History takes a hike

Comedy

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Some Bark, No Bite: The Mouse That Roared on DVD

  • July 31, 2003

Strangelove gets sweet

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Fists and Feathers: Madame Satã Reviewed

  • July 31, 2003

Don’t mess with Madame

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Shalom? Auf Wiedersehen! Werner Herzog’s Invincible

  • July 31, 2003

“Invincible” Herzog does it again

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Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

  • July 31, 2003

Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear

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Angela’s Lashes: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die!

  • July 31, 2003

Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie

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The Wave Breaks: Star Danish Directors Fail to Translate

  • July 31, 2003

From the regional to the international and back in a few short years

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Of Psychotic Environments and Corporate Hallucinations: The Animatrix on DVD

  • July 31, 2003

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Leni’s Body Beautiful: Forty Years of Riefenstahl’s Olympic Gaze in the James Bond Title Credits

  • July 31, 2003

In the beginning there was Leni, and Leni begat Robert and Maurice, who begat the Bond title sequences.

Music & Musicals · Reviews

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What’s Rita in the Hay Worth?: Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich

  • April 30, 2003

Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich

Actors & Personalities

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Unintentional Camp and the Image of Will Smith: Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith

  • April 30, 2003

Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith

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Together Again for the First Time: Movies Holding Mirrors Up to Movies

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Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art

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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

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Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Slaughter Rule to Frida to Hell House

  • April 30, 2003

Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse

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