film review: La Noche
I had some trouble the first time getting through Edgardo Castor’s La noche/The Night, gay art movie from Argentina, but now after having watched it three times, and crucial scenes more than that, I’m convinced that it’s closer to a masterpiece.
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Hatchet Job: Irreversible Review
A review of both the objectionable movie Irreversible by Gaspar Noé and some of the social politics of the film social network, Letterboxd.
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30 Best LGBT Films of All Time — An alternative to the BFI list
In the dialectical spirit of Liz Phair’s song-by-song response to the Stones’ Exile on Main Street, I present my alternatives to The BFI’s list, The 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time. Any list with such a pretentious and implicitly self-aggrandizing name deserves some kind of response, so I made an attempt, with some mischief.
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The 30 Best [Euro-Gringo, Establishment-Cinephile] LGBT Films of All Time?
It's more than a little weird to me that although over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers voted on the 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time, there's not a surprise on it. I appreciate the inclusion of Portrait of Jason and Genet's Un chant d'amour — the...
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Best Gay Movies Since 2000
Note: In making this list of gay movies, I considered what was important to me, rather than what was important to the culture at large, not least because there are inevitably estadounidense biases, and often European ones as well, built-in to lists like these. As a...
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film note: De terça pra quarta
I loved this underseen gay-themed short film from Brazil which depicts the unexpected meeting of two teen boys on the nighttime streets of a large city.
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film note: Dallas Buyers Club
I’m glad this movie talks about a time period that most people, even most gay men, have forgotten, it’s still too bad that this kinda dry vehicle will get seen more than any of the worthy documentaries about the response to the AIDS crisis, such as Voices from the Front, How To Survive a Plague, We Were Here and United in Anger.
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Short Reviews of 9 Gay-Themed Movies
Most of these gay-themed movies are worth a look. Just don’t expect any masterpieces.
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film note: The Canyons
Although visually dazzling in spots, this empty and pretentious film is a lot less risky than director/writer Paul Schrader thinks it is.
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film note: Dear Mr. Gacy
I had a hard time caring about anything that happened in this inert, hard-to-believe story about college student Jason Moss who befriended serial killer John Wayne Gacy in order to get a look into his mind for a school term paper.
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