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LGBT & Queer · Reviews · Uncategorized
The 1960s brought back Hellman’s lesbian who vanished three decades earlier. But why does she die? “She found the lie with the ounce of truth.” – The Children’s Hour, film[…]
The later masterworks of one of cinema’s titans in fine VHS transfers Film has always been considered something of a mongrel art form, inherently populist and therefore of dubious aesthetic[…]
Actors & Personalities · Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Liberated porn queen or psychological wreck? You be the judge. In a demimonde as duplicitous as the porn world, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that some of its players[…]
The year is 1987. Wall Street smoothie Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is preparing to meet the new day. As he anoints his buff-enough-for-Bay-Watch bod with an endless series of unguents, emollients,[…]
In spite of what you’ve heard, abortion was not an option in that decade’s mainstream Hollywood cinema Ah, movie magic. Hollywood always manages to make difficult situations turn out well after two[…]
The pleasures and pitfalls of cultural change, collectivism, and – oh yes, an unusual pair of cats As the new century begins, it is now possible to look back on[…]
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, edited by Ellis Hanson (NC: Duke University Press, 1999), Trade paper, $19.00 U.S., ISBN 0-82232-342-7 Out Takes is the latest offering from Duke[…]
Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies, by Maurice Rapf. (Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999). Cloth, $39.50. 211pp. ISBN 0-8108-3583-5 Maurice Rapf was a communist. He also forced[…]
Fred and Ginger get continental on your ass The Gay Divorcee1 is the quintessential Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie. It’s not their best – largely because Ginger’s dancing skills[…]
Going down in San Francisco’s street-kid heroin underground Behind the image of San Francisco as a creative epicenter and ultimate party town drawing talented, disaffected kids from around the country[…]
This just in – men are stupid. “It is useless,” Dr. Johnson1 once remarked, “to criticize an unresisting imbecility.” He was referring, of course, to Carrot Top’s act, but his[…]
Activist & Political · Asian · Reviews
An acclaimed auteur’s new film gets caught in the cultural crossfire. Author’s Statement In February this year I traveled to India to work as a camera assistant on the film[…]
“All right, which one of you took the lesbian?” In 1935, the movie producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights to Lillian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour, intending to turn the[…]
It’s really a courtly epic in ’60s drag. It was a coup that Columbia Pictures had banked on: the one 007 property that got away from Broccoli and Saltzman’s cash[…]
Hitch’s – and by now the whole damn culture’s – seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited Read the companion photo essay “Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone”[…]
From the land of Kierkegaard and crullers, the newest New Wavers resuscitate – and reform – an artform ready for last rites. “The time to make up your mind about[…]
“What would you give me for a basket of dead lovebirds?” The Bad Seed came out in 1956, the same year as Carousel and Tea and Sympathy. But while the[…]
The cruelty and clarity of life in a sand pit in Japan, circa 1964 Revisiting past pleasures – long-past pleasures in this case – has its particular perils. In the[…]
Dykes in distress in Robert Aldrich’s late ‘60s masterpiece Robert Aldrich ranks with Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray as one of the “golden boys” of postwar commercial cinema whose formal[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Can your heart stand it? More Radley Metzger! The title of Metzger’s “second film” (second by his own reckoning; other sources list it as his fourth, after Dark Odyssey, The[…]
