Bruce LaBruce Retrospective
Bruce Demara on Bruce LaBruce at the Toronto Star:
"With his sixth feature film playing the international indy/alt/queer/fantasy festival circuit, Bruce LaBruce is ready for a close-up – a three-day ‘retrospective’ starting tonight at the Royal Cinema.
"The Toronto filmmaker, known for his porn-meet-politics, not-for-the-faint-of-heart cult offerings, is basking in the relative acclaim of his latest work, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People, about a lonely gay zombie roaming the streets of Berlin."
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Here is the intro to Toronto’s The Royal cinema’s Bruce LaBruce Restrospective (in addition to Otto, the retrospective will screen Hustler White, Super 8 1/2, The Raspberry Reich, and No Skin Off My Ass):
"In our era of commercialism, Bruce LaBruce’s films remain committed to [...]
by Massimo David | December 5, 2008
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Tags: Bruce LaBruce, Erotic Movies, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Otto; or Up with Dead People, Sex
Sundance 2008: Roman Polanski, Eduardo Noriega, Gay Zombies
Variety’s Justin Chang on The Great Buck Howard:
"A smoothly turned-out entertainment centered around an Amazing Kreskin-style mentalist comes down with an unfortunate case of the warm-and-fuzzies in The Great Buck Howard. Behind-the-curtains comedy reps an amusing showcase for John Malkovich’s diva-like theatrics in the title role, but writer-director Sean McGinly’s decision to frame the story as a relationship movie, as Buck’s impressionable young assistant deals with some very familiar life issues, tilts the comic seesaw toward sentiment over satire."
Also in the cast are Colin Hanks (co-producer’s Tom Hanks‘ son), Emily Blunt, and Steve Zahn.
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Mary Milliken on Marina Zenovich’s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired in Reuters/The Vancouver Sun:
"Zenovich told Reuters her documentary does not apologize for the French-Polish director, but [...]
