Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Angela’s Lashes: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die!
Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie
The Wave Breaks: Star Danish Directors Fail to Translate
From the regional to the international and back in a few short years
Of Psychotic Environments and Corporate Hallucinations: The Animatrix on DVD
Masters of anime riff on The Matrix in this sizzling collection of nine shorts
Leni’s Body Beautiful: Forty Years of Riefenstahl’s Olympic Gaze in the James Bond Title Credits
In the beginning there was Leni, and Leni begat Robert and Maurice, who begat the Bond title sequences.
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
Unintentional Camp and the Image of Will Smith: Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Camp and coded queerness finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Together Again for the First Time: Movies Holding Mirrors Up to Movies
Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art
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?
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Slaughter Rule to Frida to Hell House
Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse
How to Turn One’s Back on a Tyrant: Part Two
The opposite of realism is not fantasy, but disappointment
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.”
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Reviews
Little Big Man: John Garfield Triumphs in Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog
Garfield wraps it up in this 1941 prole drama based on a Group Theatre production
Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
Bad Film, Great Soundtrack: New Orleans on DVD
How Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday saved New Orleans from the Yankees
“Fabulous Gowns but No Pussy!”: An Interview with Holly Woodlawn
A superstar talks Trash and papayas
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.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003: A Review
Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film.
Fellini’s Society Rehearsal: Orchestra Rehearsal Reconsidered
In which “Fellini takes us beyond our frailties and chaos”
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
“I Like His Face”: Nicholas Ray’s Noir Classic Restored on DVD
Do you like his face?
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