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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[…]
Actors & Personalities · Reviews
Are Rock and Doris Hollywood’s strangest romantic team? How about Rock and Tony Randall? These things happened: Tony Randall picked Rock Hudson up in a bar with the line “Need[…]
Land rights and body rights clash in this striking docudrama about a woman wronged Sixty-year-old housekeeper Paulina Cruz Suarez grew up in the Mexican village of Puntilla, Veracruz. At the[…]
“Seven tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer” — our beloved boys are all dressed up and back on screen. If William Friedkin’s grim gay thriller Cruising (1980) continues[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The tragedy of the temporal dominates the work of this gifted Canadian experimental filmmaker In the opening segment of Panic Bodies (1998), Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolboom talks poetically about the[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Flashing needles and literal crowns of thorn mark the work — and the body — of performance artist Ron Athey Modern primitives don’t get quite the respect they used to.[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The man who gave us Urinal and Lillies now turns his playful eye on circumcision, copyright, and Pierre Trudeau. In his early short film, The Making of Monsters (1991), Canadian[…]
Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Writer-director Everett Lewis takes us, ready or not, into a particularly nasty demimonde. With the increasing mainstreaming of cinematic homosexuality, there’s a distinct allure to movies that insist on showing[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews
The dragon-voiced diva chats us up Sylvia Miles’ reputation in the 1970s was based on three things: her 6-minute bit as a New York hooker in Midnight Cowboy, her peerless[…]
