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Billy Wilder, by Bernard F. Dick. New York: Da Capo Press (a division of Plenum Publishing), 1996 (updated edition). $13.95, ISBN 0-306-80729-7. Trade paperback, 198pp. To order, contact Da Capo Press[…]
Kudos to Scarecrow for finally wising up and using attractive, well-designed dust jackets on their books. Now if they can only do something about those high prices . . . but onto[…]
Animation · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
“Ooh, Batman, it hurts!” Cartoons have always been a rich repository of queer subtext. How else to explain all those too-close buddies and their serious lack of female companionship? (The[…]
Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
“Just as in real life, many of the characters in these works – fictional, real, or reconstructed – don’t fit a precise, undeviating profile.” There are encouraging signs in this[…]
Music & Musicals · Pre-Code · Reviews
“All Singing! All Dancing! All Color! All Racist!” Whoopee is a find, a treasure, a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Most of all it is a chunk of Flo[…]
Three of Kurosawa’s scathing critiques of Japanese society past and present – in beautiful new video transfers. Akira Kurosawa has been seen as one of the three components of a[…]
Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer
In James Broughton’s Hermes Bird, a seven-minute close-up of a penis in various stages of arousal, the filmmaker reads a line from one of his poems: “This is the secret[…]
A bittersweet look at the daily lives of the tranny whores of a legendary red-light district of 1960s Singapore – with free make-up tips! This sweet, sad sketch of a[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
The master of Euro-erotica is starting to get his due in recent revivals The “golden age” of porn during the ’60s and ’70s was more fool’s gold than real for[…]
Asian · Books · Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
VideoHound’s Vampires on Video, by J. Gordon Melton (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997). Trade paper, $17.95, 335pp. ISBN 1-57859-002-7. Vampires continue to be an important fixture on the cultural landscape,[…]
Cinema’s long-lost “supreme erotic poet” has come back to the fold – briefly How does it happen that a filmmaker once lauded as “the American avant-garde cinema’s supreme erotic poet”[…]
Animation · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Noodles up the nose, murdered dolls, toe-sucking fish – these are the hallmarks of Prague’s zaniest surrealist! Forget magic realism; this is magic surrealism, of the highest order. Czech filmmaker[…]
Thrill as the withered opera hags revisit their vital past! Scream as the mock-incestuous-lesbian sisters kiss and waltz! Shudder as hunky baritone Sergei Larin makes goo-goo eyes at a twink![…]
This sweet, sad queer ensemble piece from Britain surpasses its more pompous American counterparts. The bitchy, bittersweet gay ensemble movie of the pre-2000 era, e.g., The Boys in the Band or[…]
A bottle of “Black & Beautiful” hair dye gives Harrison Ford his ticket to the demimonde When I saw The Fugitive, I watched it with a particularly critical eye. Earlier,[…]
If Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang aren’t enough of a lure, how about all those beautiful empty spaces? Few observers at the time (1963) were prepared for Godard,[…]
What is it about the sight of two men kissing that drives Americans insane? Frank Oz’s In and Out can be read on one level as an attempt to relocate[…]
“I refuse to fever in the lousy ballroom of Mongkok!” Hong Kong cinema is in clear disarray with the transfer to China, a star system in virtual collapse, talent dispersing[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Producers & Studios · Reviews
Can one man’s brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.[…]
The future’s no future, but that’s okay – your spaceship is almost ready! Science fiction is, inevitably, an American genre, its narratives – literary and cinematic – fueled by the[…]
