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film review: La Noche

by Rick Powell | Apr 7, 2018 | Featured, film reviews | 0 Comments

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.

Hatchet Job: Irreversible Review

by Rick Powell | Sep 28, 2017 | Featured, film reviews | 0 Comments

Letterboxd is a social network centered around rating films. You keep a diary; you can rate and/or review films, if you wish. Other users can follow you, comment and like your reviews. It’s nauseatingly personality-driven, everyone’s waaaay too nice and fawning....

30 Best LGBT Films of All Time — An alternative to the BFI list

by Rick Powell | Apr 10, 2016 | Featured | 0 Comments

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.

The 30 Best [Euro-Gringo, Establishment-Cinephile] LGBT Films of All Time?

by Rick Powell | Mar 31, 2016 | Featured, on criticism | 0 Comments

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...

Best Gay Movies Since 2000

by Rick Powell | Jan 26, 2016 | Featured, Film Lists | 0 Comments

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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Short Reviews of 9 Gay-Themed Movies

by Rick Powell | Sep 9, 2018 | film notes | 0 Comments

Wild Side 2004 Directed by Sébastien Lifshitz 110 mins Sébastien Lifshitz's elegant and melancholy relationship study utilizes elliptical editing patterns that double-back on the film's main narrative — the daughter of a transsexual woman returns home after several...

film note: The Canyons

by Rick Powell | Sep 9, 2018 | film notes | 0 Comments

The Canyons Directed by Paul Schrader 99 mins, USA, 2013 Originally published on Letterboxd with no likes. Not to pile on, but it's embarrassing watching Schrader try to lend weight to Bret Easton Ellis' characteristically silly, stilted & self-important script:...