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Directors · Experimental & Underground

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“Sorry! It Had to Be Done!” Radical Actioner Kurt Kren

  • April 1, 1999

Presenting Kurt Kren — humble bank teller by day, radical action naked performance artist by night! The exigencies of living and working miles from the mainstream can prevent even the[…]

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Paul Morrissey on DVD: Four Camp Classics

  • April 1, 1999

Sluts, stoners, and screeching drag queens decorate Morrissey’s curdled campfests Gerri Miller: “You used to be dynamite, Joe. Don’t you miss it?” Joe Dallesandro: “Uh … yeah.” – Trash It’s[…]

Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Reviews · Visual Artists

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Love Stories: Pierre et Gilles (1997)

  • April 1, 1999

The love in this film about the two lost boys of Eurotrash art is mostly self-love. The art of Pierre and Gilles, affectionately known as P&G, has always been a[…]

Books

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Book review: Harvey Keitel, by Marshall Fine

  • December 13, 1998

Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness. The Unauthorized Biography, by Marshall Fine. New York: Fromm International, 1998. ISBN 0-88064-191-6, Cloth, 272pp, $25.00. Harvey Keitel, as rendered by film critic Marshall[…]

Books

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Book review: That’s Enough, Folks, by Henry T. Sampson

  • December 13, 1998

That’s Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960, by Henry T. Sampson. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8108-3250-X, Hardcover library binding (no dust jacket), 249pp, $60.00. Scarecrow Press[…]

Books

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Book review: The Vampire Gallery by J. Gordon Melton

  • December 13, 1998

The Vampire Gallery: A Who’s Who of the Undead, by J. Gordon Melton. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press (a division of Gale Research), 1998. ISBN 1-57859-053-1, Trade paper, 500pp, $19.95. J.[…]

Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer

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Cultural Makeovers: Tranny Fest 1998

  • December 1, 1998

When gender gets in the way, as it so often does, these gender pioneers say “Change it!” Trannies of every stripe — drag queens and kings, transsexuals, intersexuals, etc. —[…]

Directors · Documentaries

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Frank Capra’s American Dream (Kenneth Bowser, 1997)

  • December 1, 1998

This beloved film artist was driven as much by self-doubt as by his belief in the power of the “little man” The rise of Frank Capra from sickly, abused, impoverished[…]

Documentaries · Reviews

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Unmade Beds (Nicholas Barker, 1997)

  • December 1, 1998

An arresting look at the limited lives of four New York singles, playing themselves British director Nicholas Barker’s New York cult hit Unmade Beds has an unintended effect that will[…]

Reviews

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Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov, 1997)

  • December 1, 1998

Even the cinematic frame isn’t safe from Sokurov’s grim sleight-of-hand Painterliness in cinema has its pitfalls. Filmmakers like Peter Greenaway and Derek Jarman built careers on bringing visual imagery familiar[…]

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Bad Manners (Jonathan Kaufer, 1997)

  • December 1, 1998

Watch out for that “placid surface.” Movies based on plays don’t always fare well in the transition. There’s a double danger here: slavishly recreating the “stage experience” in its often[…]

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews

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I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)

  • December 1, 1998

The supreme masterpiece of the poetic documentary form Three recent views of Cuba: the repressive, fragmented, poverty-stricken last gasp of modern Communism offered by the U.S. media; the wonderland of[…]

Producers & Studios · Silents

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Thanhouser Classics: Long-Lost Pleasures from the Dawn of Cinema

  • December 1, 1998

Thanhouser produced 1,000+ titles between 1909 and 1917, but less than 200 survive. Silent cinema is often written off, even by cinephiles who pride themselves on their intimate knowledge of[…]

LGBT & Queer · Reviews · Visual Artists

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Devoutly Elusive: Love Is the Devil (John Maybury, 1998)

  • December 1, 1998

Timid top George Dyer meets pushy bottom Francis Bacon, with art and death the inevitable result In a typical moment in this artful biopic of Francis Bacon, the ultra-queer painter[…]

Comedy · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer

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Primal Gross-out: Pink Flamingos Restored

  • December 1, 1998

The seminal trash classic all dressed up with somewhere to go Cinema, like any art form, has its milestones — the first “story film” in The Great Train Robbery (1903),[…]

Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Words and Music: An Unsung Masterpiece?

  • December 1, 1998

Forgotten biopic offers a baker’s dozen of delights Is Words and Music, MGM’s 1948 “and then they wrote” biopic of songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, a masterpiece? Although long[…]

Reviews

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Jules and Jim: An Amorous Cyclone

  • December 1, 1998

Sex, art, and romance — some notes on the sources of Truffaut’s famous film It is 1935. (Theodore) Adorno writes to Walter Benjamin, “With regard to your remark on fashion,[…]

Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer

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The Sissy Gaze in American Cinema

  • December 1, 1998

Shed a tear for that shimmering, noble, lost creature of the cinema — the sissy! What’s wrong with Hollywood? Nowadays you hear everyone asking that. This very morning, I heard[…]

Horror · LGBT & Queer · Reviews

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Queer Horror: Decoding Universal’s Monsters

  • December 1, 1998

Monsters and drag queens and dykes — oh my! After decades of being devalued by lousy prints on video and television, Universal’s classic ’30s horror films have been resurrected, refurbished,[…]

Animation · Animators

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Goosing Mother Goose: The Fairy Tales of Tex Avery

  • September 1, 1998

“Fairy tales, unlike any other form of literature, direct the child to discover his identity and calling, and they also suggest what experiences are needed to develop his character further.” –[…]

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