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Directors · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
The master of Super-8 radical cinema takes us into the cave of the unknown, with extraordinary results The Super-8 camera and projector were once the beloved means by which postwar[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Friendly Christians, bitter rent boys, and South Africa’s liberated queens are part of this year’s queer reality parade To some jaundiced eyes, documentaries have an inherent fascination and gravitas lacking[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Julia Roberts has tits! It’s a well-known fact that Julia Roberts can turn the world on with her smile. When she puts her whole bod into it, the very heavens start to[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Wilde’s infamous letter from prison becomes a springboard for a surreal queer experience De Profundis was the closest Oscar Wilde ever came to a queer apologia and defense, written as a[…]
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[…]
