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.
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.
Q&A: Actors Rafael Silva and Brandon Grimes on their roles in gay immigration film ‘The Compatriots’
“The Compatriots” is an affable comedy, written and directed by Spencer Cohen, about a serious subject. Closeted high school student Javi (Rafael Silva) is
40 years ago, the first AIDS movies forced Americans to confront a disease they didn’t want to see
In the fall of 1985, two pioneering films offered radically different portrayals of AIDS – one intimate and confrontational, the other more cautious and network-friendly.
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'.
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.
My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air
Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics
‘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.’”
How This Bold Malayalam Film Challenged a Conservative Society’s Views on Being Gay
This Malayalam film isn't loud, but it's unforgettable. Directed by Jeo Baby and starring Mammootty, Kaathal – The Core reveals the pain of suppressed LGBTQI+ identity in a conservative society. It challenges viewers to reconsider what love and cruelty can mean.
‘God chose you, Jair Bolsonaro!’ Is Brazil now in the grip of evangelicals?
From TV soaps to the supreme court to the top job, Christian fundamentalists are on a power-grab in the country. We meet the director of Apocalypse in the Tropics, a new film charting their rise
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