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‘I was surprised how unceasing the abuse was’: the fallout from Leaving Neverland
Dan Reed knew his film would shatter Michael Jackson’s reputation. But he didn’t expect so many death threats – or the superfans stalking his office
Dan Reed knew his film would shatter Michael Jackson’s reputation. But he didn’t expect so many death threats – or the superfans stalking his office
'Humour saved my life', says subversive director John Waters
Big smile flashing and pencil-thin moustache quivering, subversive director John Waters laughs heartily as he looks back at an improbable 40-year career that made him a trash film icon. "Humour saved me, saved my life," the 73-year-old sharp-dresser told AFP on the sidelines of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, where he was a guest of honour earlier this month. From a homemade horror stage in his garage, Waters went on to tear down barriers with transgressive fare such as "Eat Your Makeup", "Mondo Trasho", "Multiple Maniacs" and the scatological classic "Pink Flamingos" in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Waters tore down barriers with transgressive fare such as "Eat Your Makeup", "Mondo Trasho", "Multiple Maniacs" and the scatological classic "Pink Flamingos" in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Colegas (Eloy de la Iglesia, Spain, 1982)
There is no better evocation of the transition to democracy in Spain than the cinema of Eloy de la Iglesia. Colegas feels like a Pre-Code Warners film: fast, filled with incident, speaking t…
That Time Gay Movie Cruising, Starring Al Pacino, Filmed in NYC and People Freaked the F Out
A decade after the Oscar-winning success of The French Connection—maybe the definitive NYC cop movie?—William Friedkin returned to NYC cops with an edgy tale...
"CRUISING" Demonizes Gay Sexual Liberation - Rue Morgue
In his new column, playwright Justin McDevitt lends a queer eye to your favorite horror flicks.
I’ve been avoiding CRUISING.
On the surface, this 1980 Al Pacino flick has everything I want: gay filth and murder! I first heard about CRUISING through The Celluloid Closet, the 1995 documentary about portrayals of the LGBTQ community in film, and immediately learned about the backlash and protests surrounding it. Did that taint my viewing experience? Maybe.
William Friedkin's Cruising - Bright Lights Film Journal
The recent (2014) release of James Franco’s Interior. Leather Bar. reminds us it’s time to revisit the still-notorious film that inspired it. History shows us how easily yesterday’s cause celebre[...]
The recent (2014) release of James Franco’s Interior. Leather Bar. reminds us it’s time to revisit the still-notorious film that inspired it.
History shows us how easily yesterday’s cause celebre can become acceptable and even tame by present-day standards. Such is the case with William Friedkin’s underrated 1980 film Cruising.
Nowhere to Run: William Friedkin’s “Cruising”
On fascism, homonationalism, and America
On fascism, homonationalism, and America
Hidden Rainbows: 10 Underseen LGBT+ Horrors - Nightmare on Film Street
With horror being a respite for those who feel like outliers in society, it is no surprise filmmakers have turned to the genre when needing to communicate their emotions. Horror has importantly become a destination for contextualizing everything from personal fears to longstanding oppression. The LGBT+ community especially finds solace in horror — they identify […]
The LGBT+ community especially finds solace in horror — they identify with characters’ desire to escape and survive. Cruising, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, and Jennifer’s Body have certainly gained valid traction over the years, but what about other movies in need of attention? They, too, offer insight into the collective queer horror experience.
The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Weapon Of Shame: Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus On 'Moffie'
Tackling apartheid-era toxic white masculinity as a mixed race South African, filmmaker Oliver Hermanus rose to the challenge with his searing new feature Moffie, streaming on Curzon Home Cinema now. Olivia Neilson meets the director
Tackling apartheid-era toxic white masculinity as a mixed race South African, filmmaker Oliver Hermanus rose to the challenge with his searing new feature Moffie, streaming on Curzon Home Cinema now. Olivia Neilson meets the director
Ryan Murphy's Hollywood Babylon
How Ryan Murphy's dreamy movieland tale, and interest in telling the stories of the marginalized, is nothing but an illusion.
And that could have been what Ryan Murphy, creator of Glee, American Horror Story, et al., and Ian Brennan tried to do: ask probing questions about how institutional power operates, what the meaning of screen representation is within a larger political context, what politics means in its knottiness in an industry that exists under capitalism. But, instead, in Hollywood, Murphy’s second venture for Netflix after The Politician, he spoon feeds us a fantasy so single-minded and one-dimensional, the tinsel of tinseltown has more depth.
The 20 Best LGBTQ+ Films of the 2010s
Oscar winners and indie darlings, here are twenty of the most influential and impactful queer and trans stories of the past decade.
While we might not see it now, the 2010s have defined the trajectory of LGBTQ+ cinema for decades to come. After a century of being kept in the closet, outed, dehumanized, and othered onscreen and in the industry as a whole, LGBTQ+ filmmakers & actors are finally being given the opportunities to tell their own stories with the authenticity, tenderness, and depth they deserve.
A State of Uncertainty: Tsai Ming-liang on Days - Cinema Scope
There’s no exact precedent for the long creative collaboration between Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng. In 1991, as the story goes, Tsai stepped out of a screening of a David Lynch movie and spotted Lee sitting on a motorbike outside of an arcade.
The 14 Best LGBTQ International Films of 2018 | IndieWire
The gay film festival circuit is ripe with excellent foreign films that prove queer stories don't have to skimp on quality.
Best LGBTQi+ films of all time - Movie list
You’ll say that the title is a little extravagant but that was the point. In fact, my idea was to make a list with good films. Some LGBT films have no...
You’ll say that the title is a little extravagant but that was the point. In fact, my idea was to make a list with good films. Some LGBT films have no interest except the one of talking of LGBT people but some LGBT films are little treasures, here they are
Shakedown
Leilah Weinraub’s riveting Shakedown, resituated on Pornhub
Leilah Weinraub’s riveting Shakedown
documents a Los Angeles strip club owned by and aimed at Black lesbians in the early years of the twenty-first century, and when it played festivals and arthouses a few years ago it plugged seamlessly into an obvious lineage of work centered on queer people of color building their own culture and institutions, from Paris is Burning (1990) to Kiki (2016).
Re-Evaluating Why I Love Movies (or How My Relationship with Films Changed During Quarantine)
“Why do you love movies so much?” Someone close to me recently asked me that. It was a question that I had thought about myself many times…
Ron Peck obituary: filmmaker behind Nighthawks, Britain’s first feature set in the gay community
Peck, who has died aged 74, was a pioneer in Britain’s independent film scene of the 1970s and 80s, whose Nighthawks is a milestone in LGBTQIA+ cinema.
film review: Panquecito, a gay sex short directed by Chucho E. Quintero
In my perfect world, we’d get a new short from Chucho E. Quintero every couple weeks, as long as they’re as fresh and funny as Panquecito.
Disclosure and Pursuing the Trans Film Image
There is a difference between making a film of sociopolitical and cultural value and making a film about important sociopolitical and cultural matters. In some cases the latter may beget the former, but it is not a given.
Hulu’s Love, Victor is caught up in the mythology of white gayness
The movie spinoff series delves deeper into queer experience in a limited way
AsAs the camera slowly pans over piled up moving boxes filled with scuffed up shoes, a Puerto Rican flag, trophies, and a drawing of the state of Texas, the premiere of Love, Victor, a 10-episode Hulu spin-off of the 2018 film Love Simon, establishes who Victor (Michael Cimino) thinks he is and who he has known himself to be.
The 200 Best Lesbian, Queer & Bisexual Movies Of All Time
Five years after releasing our original "100 Best Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Films" list — we decided to double it (With 25 new updates for 2021!)
“And Then We Danced,” A Queer Love Letter to Georgian Culture
The director Levan Akin’s coming-of-age story about a traditional dancer had just a three-day run of screenings in Georgia, where it led to rioting, twenty-seven arrests, and one hospitalization.
The Georgian folk dancer is an image of masculine stereotype. His movements are martial, virile; they simulate war, hunting, and the courtship of his beloved. Often accoutered with a double-edged dagger, he personifies the small, proud nation’s history and traditions. So when the Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin arrived in Tbilisi to shoot the country’s first explicitly queer feature film, a coming-of-age story about a traditional dancer, he was met with not a little hostility.
Oscar Award-Winning 'Moonlight' Accused Of Plagiarising Josh Thomas's 'Please Like Me' — The Betoota Advocate
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Producers of the ABC’s ‘Please Like Me’ have today accused the winner of the 89th Academy Award’s Best Picture, ‘Moonlight’, of plagiarising the life of Josh Thomas. Moonlight, which tells the morally and formally challenging story about a young gay black man journeying from bullied child to troubled teen to gangsta is ‘undeniably similar’ to […]
Producers of the ABC’s ‘Please Like Me’ have today accused the winner of the 89th Academy Award’s Best Picture, ‘Moonlight’, of plagiarising the life of Josh Thomas.
Forbidden Letters and Passing Strangers: The Adult Film Romances of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
In 1977, Arthur J. Bressan Jr. was promoting his landmark documentary Gay USA (1977) on the gay-centered New York City television program Emerald City TV at the height of gay liberation. He dressed…
The host of the program asked him with the success of this documentary, what he planned on doing next, Bressan answered, “I want to make a feature-length gay narrative story about two men who are in love for commercial distribution. I would say a gay breakthrough film that straight people can go see and gay people can see.”
Why So Many Disney Villains Sound 'Gay'
The new documentary ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ explores the surprising number of mincing, sibilant animated villains with a penchant for extravagant hats.
12 Vintage Gay Adult Films Everyone Should See -- Metro Weekly
Charting an odyssey of classic gay erotica, from Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s "Passing Strangers" to Wakefield Poole's "Boys in the Sand."
Charting an odyssey of classic gay erotica, from Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.'s "Passing Strangers" to Wakefield Poole's "Boys in the Sand"
Review: Netflix’s The Boys in the Band Plays an Ugly, Empty Tune
A filmed version of the 2018 Broadway revival is just as bad on screen as it was on stage—maybe worse.
A filmed version of the 2018 Broadway revival is just as bad on screen as it was on stage—maybe worse.
Were Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Really Lovers?
Many have speculated about this relationship. A new book about Grant looks at the evidence.
We Can’t Afford a Hollywood Marriage!” was the headline in the October 1933 issue of Hollywood magazine and, beneath it, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were pictured whistling as they did the dishes together at the kitchen sink and singing happily at the piano in their living room.
Paul Lynde Gave the Gays What They Needed on ‘Bewitched’ 55 Years Ago
Uncle Arthur showed that being gay could be a scary good time.
As far as I’m concerned, Paul Lynde is the patron saint of Halloween. His campy, mischievous, subtly sinister style is exactly the vibe I want all October long—and it doesn’t hurt that he gave us the greatest Halloween special ever.