The Cinesexuals

The Cinesexuals

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Pee-Wee’s Gay House
Pee-Wee’s Gay House
Pee-Wee’s queerness is looked upon kindly, and played with openly. It’s lovely in a vacuum, and uncomfortable when paired in stark contrast to Reubens’ lived reality.
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Pee-Wee’s Gay House
Finding a definition for queer cinema
Finding a definition for queer cinema
Todd Haynes’ Carol is being celebrated as a queer classic, but what does the term “queer cinema” mean today?
·lwlies.com·
Finding a definition for queer cinema
First Love, Queer Cinema, and the Art of Collaboration
First Love, Queer Cinema, and the Art of Collaboration
In this episode of the No Film School Podcast, GG Hawkins sits down with Carmen Emmi (director, writer) and Erik Vogt-Nilsen (editor) of Plainclothes, a striking debut feature that blends the aching vulnerability of first love with the sharp tension of queer identity under surveillance.
·nofilmschool.com·
First Love, Queer Cinema, and the Art of Collaboration
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Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Paul Reubens, subject of a new HBO documentary, 'Pee-wee as Himself', was in the closet — but his famous character wasn't. Why a gay man felt at home watching Reubens' '80s TV show, 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'.
·people.com·
Pee-wee and Me: Why a Gay Man Felt at Home Watching 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'
Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
On the tenth anniversary of experimental queer durational film The Royal Road, director and celebrated queer film curator Jenni Olson chats with Eliot Dunn about the film’s reimagination of nostalgia, the importance of embracing our vulnerability, and the state of queer filmmaking.
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Queering Nostalgia | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
We meet the director and writer of the classic gay romance for tea, cake and bubbles to talk about the movie that changed cinema – and the lives of everyone involved
Frears detected the echo of an even older star. “I remember him standing by the lamppost under the bridge in the scene where he and Omar meet again, and I thought: ‘Ah, I see. You want to play it like Marlene Dietrich.’”
·theguardian.com·
‘It was a buddy movie – and then they kissed’: Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema
Tucked away in the history of queer cinema, Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix drove across America so that, 14 years later, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal could leap into history-making double Oscar noms for their portrayals of two closeted ranchers’ decades-long affair.
·queerty.com·
Before ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘My Own Private Idaho’ paved the way for today’s mainstream queer cinema