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.

A review of both the objectionable movie Irreversible by Gaspar Noé and some of the social politics of the film social network, Letterboxd.

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…

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 latter still…

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 corrective to…