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Late 'Shaft' Star Richard Roundtree Played Historic Openly Gay Character on 90's Sitcom 'Roc'
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Lies and Death | Jonathan Rosenbaum
This review includes coverage of Silverlake Life.
it celebrates a particular relationship and offers a passing glimpse of a particular milieu (the Silverlake district of Hollywood, though there are a couple of side trips to New Hampshire) and some wisdom about ways of coping with death. I wouldn’t want to claim that the film is easy to take, but neither are its virtues simply the negative ones of taboo breaking. At its best, it offers a way of looking at the world that concretely suggests — even to some extent requires — rejecting its present moral priorities.
What isn’t explained in the film — it would have been impossibly complicated to do so — is that Joslin started Silverlake Life as a series of short pieces about Massi and Massi’s illness when he thought that his lover would be the first to die. Then, as Joslin’s own illness grew worse, Massi took over more and more of the filming himself, and Friedman stepped in to complete the work five months after Joslin’s death.
Paradoxically yet vitally, the act of filming becomes not merely an act of witness but an anchor of meaning, and perhaps for this very reason necessitates the kind of focus and discipline that makes some forms of courage and nobility possible.
Through it all, what impresses one most is the film’s economy, as the diminishing energies of both men translate into a necessity for saying and doing things as simply as possible — a limitation that finally becomes a kind of strength, evident in Friedman’s editing as well as in the filming by various hands. Thanks to this unity of purpose, “the view from here” becomes not a distancing frame for a voyeuristic peek but a route to the other side: we sense the people in this movie looking intently at us.
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Made in Heaven actor Arjun Mathur on portraying gay characters: I don’t want to...
The actor scored a nomination in the ‘Best Performance by an Actor’ category at the International Emmy Awards 2020, for his portrayal of a closeted homosexual.
“The experience of ‘Made in Heaven’ taught me that it should be always about the script. If a great script comes to me, I’ll do it (play a gay role) ten times over. I love Karan too much and I want to do this as truthfully as many times as I’ll be allowed,” Mathur told PTI in an interview.
Ira Sachs on Fassbinder, Passages, and the State of Queer Cinema
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Up from the Depths – Rediscovering Il Mare – Senses of Cinema
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Why One of the Highest-Rated 'Friends' Episodes Made NBC Nervous
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An Angel Has Fallen: Kenneth Anger (1927 – 2023)
Anger was living proof that resistance in the film industry is not only possible, but exquisite and critical.
‘Boys Love’ genre finds new audiences in South Korea | CNN
For singer and actor Jaechan, auditioning for “Semantic Error” was a last shot at fame. It was also a professionally risky one. Not only was the TV series part of a genre — Boys’ Love, or BL for short — that was lesser-known in South Korea, it depicted something rarely seen on the country’s screens: same-sex romance.
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Remembering Films by Kenneth Anger - Notes - e-flux
Lukas Brasiskis pens an obituary for Kenneth Anger and his work.
Kenneth Anger, one of the key figures in American avant-garde cinema, passed away on May 11. His legacy endures in a distinct body of films and in an array of enigmatic stories, some woven from the threads of reality, others spun from the fabric of dreams and fictions. Since the very beginning of his foray into filmmaking in the late 1940s, Anger’s distinctive style, replete with explorations of sexuality and its diverse iconographies, has set him apart from the mainstream norms of American cinema.
J. Hoberman on Kenneth Anger (1927–2023)
KENNETH ANGER was an audacious filmmaker, a self-proclaimed magus, a never-closeted queer, a shameless scandalmonger, a sometime Satanist, a difficult person, and, as P. Adams Sitney put it, the “conscious artificer of his own myth.” He was also the King of Pop—at least that’s what I thought on first seeing Scorpio Rising (1963) in the mid-1960s, age sixteen, at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.There were other movies on that program; I remember being impressed by Gregory Markopoulos’s Ming Green and Ed Emshwiller’s Relativity. But Scorpio Rising blew everything else away: the enameled