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Music & Musicals · Pre-Code · Reviews
This 1934 musical mystery has girls, grins, guns, and Duke Ellington, too “Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world.” That was the legend above the entrance[…]
Hot licks and high kicks in a rare early musical The King of Jazz is a time machine. This 1929 musical, filmed in Technicolor, preserves a part of America’s musical[…]
The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, by J. Gordon Melton. (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999). Trade paper, $19.95, 919pp. ISBN 1-57859-071-X. This is one encyclopedia that deserves the name. J.[…]
The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera, edited by Amy L. Unterberger. (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999). Trade paper, $29.95, 568pp. ISBN 1-57859-092-2. This is[…]
Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema, by Geoff Andrew. (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999). Cloth, $38.00, 374pp, ISBN 0-87910-277-2. Geoff Andrew is the film editor of London’s esteemed Time[…]
Documentaries · Writers & Critics
Yesteryear’s brilliant wags are apparently this year’s terminal bores Film historians and social anthropologists will applaud Kino Video’s recent release of Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. Viewers[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
Gendernauts, military drag queens, communist queers – and, oh yes, John Waters distinguish this year’s docs. Those who make them and those who follow them have long lamented the lack[…]
For the SFILGFF, this is the year of the closet – empty! The proportion of successes to stinkers is reassuringly high in this year’s San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay[…]
Directors · Interviews · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The auteur of Petticoat Planet and Retro-Puppetmaster discusses his the kinky leatherboy arthouse epic Leather Jacket Love Story and other things How much did Leather Jacket Love Story (1998) cost?[…]
One of the hardest things about Hard was getting the damn thing made The gay community hasn’t always looked kindly on movies about gay mass murderers. The infamous Cruising (1980),[…]
This sweet film about queer fratboys in love defies the odds, too. Summer is when the studios unleash their biggest potential moneymakers, which this year have also turned out to[…]
Relax . . . it’s just a movie – and a good one thanks to a sharp script and Jennifer Tilly * * * Relax . . . It’s Just[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The pleasures and terrors of Old Hollywood from a master manipulator Movies have so much in common with dreams that one of Hollywood’s most enduring nicknames has been “the dream[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews · Uncategorized
What do Edie Sedgwick, Hedy Lamarr, Mary Woronov, and a pack of queer cowpokes have in common? Andy Warhol, natch. The Whitney Museum and New York MOMA’s restoration of Andy[…]
Three historic gay movies from Water Bearer Films It was inevitable that the DVD market would move beyond the blockbusters and so-called reference disks (those mindless actioners like Armageddon whose[…]
Teenage coming-of-age romantic comedies were once exclusively hetero terrain. Homophobic Hollywood couldn’t conceive of a queer Pretty in Pink during the 1980s, when John Hughes reigned supreme at the box[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Metzger madness begins in earnest with the release of four of his best on DVD “Art” has long functioned as a code word for erotica in certain contexts. Phrases like[…]
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
These mincing musclequeens might as well be Hercules’ daughters! Among the 1999 San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival’s dog-and-pony shows, Sons of Hercules promises to be one of the[…]
Clash of the titans: Hemingway meets Hawks At approximately 200 pages long and driven by dialogue and a memorable protagonist, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not had all of[…]
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
The crazy careers of the King of Pop and his Queenly Sister – or is it the other way around? For more than a decade, starting in 1986 when she[…]
