Noel Coward with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Boom! (top); with Marlene Dietrich, 1937 (bottom) Noel Coward – playwright, composer, director, actor, (purported) spy, nationalist, propagandist, semi-closeted gay guy…
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Mel Gibson’s revenge thriller Edge of Darkness opened today, Jan. 29. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Academy Award winner William Monahan and Martin Bovell, the film marks Gibson’s…
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Gay Orthodox Jews in Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open (upper image); teens go wild in Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary (lower image). The 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was held…
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DGA Awards make history: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker: Iraq War drama directed by Directors Guild Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow. (Image: Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment). Kathryn Bigelow (The…
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Beefcake and Homoeroticism + Cult Camp Classic Can’t Stop the Music with Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner + Haunted House sexual repression with lesbianism.
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Mai Zetterling, Tyrone Power. Two two co-starred in the 1957 drama Seven Waves Away / Abandon Ship. Tyrone Power IV: Bisexuality, Cesar Romero Rumors [Right: Tyrone Power in Jesse James.]…
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Tyrone Power III: Gay Rumors, Errol Flynn So if Tyrone Power was off having gay liaisons while he was at Fox, it was in another part of the world in…
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Super 8½ (1994) movie review: Underground Bruce La Bruce feature is a chaotic Citizen Kane + Fellini + gay sex mélange.
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Clapham Junction by Adrian Shergold (top); Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth in I Can’t Think Straight (bottom). Canada an egalitarian gay haven? Think again. Marcus McCann reports in Xtra.com that Canada…
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Hollow Reed, the tale of a little boy loved by his gay father and abused by his heterosexual stepfather, was the winner of the Audience Award at the 1996 Dinard…
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Javier Beltrán as Federico García Lorca, Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes According to reports, forensic experts have begun digging at a mass unmarked grave in search of…
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Gay brothers’ incest tale From Beginning to End with Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcelos. Brazilian filmmaker Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim (From Beginning to End), which revolves around…
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Colin Firth and Nicholas Hoult: Gay drama was Venice Film Festival Queer Lion winner also with Matthew Goode, Tom Ford at premiere.
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Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. He was well known in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, but he wasn’t the superstar he…
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Hollywood Je T’Aime, directed by Jason Bushman. Writer-director Jason Bushman’s feature-film debut, Hollywood, je t’aime was recently screened at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. The tale of a Frenchman…
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Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard in Humpday. A few highlights today at the Los Angeles Film Festival, currently being held (mostly) in the Westwood Village and at the Westside’s Landmark…
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2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival Awards 2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: April 23–30. Best Feature Film: Leonera / Lion’s Den by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008) Special Mention: Actress Martina…
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz ‘Suddenly Last Summer,’ starring Elizabeth Taylor. Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with…
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Giovanni Minerba, director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of Turin’s annual gay & lesbian film event, which…
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Jack Wrangler, the blond, handsome 1970s sex star – and a lifelong smoker – has died from complications of lung disease in Manhattan. He was 62. Wrangler: Anatomy of an…
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American Swing: Larry Levenson and Mary. By way of interviews, photos, and home movies, Mathew Kaufman and journalist Jon Hart’s American Swing humorously chronicles the rise and fall of all-American…
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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Friday, March 27, highlights Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website The Naked Civil Servant Directed by: Jack Gold. Cast: John Hurt, Liz Gebhardt,…
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Tribute to Spanish filmmaker and painter Adorfo Arrieta (above, with Arrieta section programmer Donatello Fumarola), among whose cinematic efforts are El crimen de la pirindola and Jouet criminel. Photos: B.…
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It’s always good to hear when a filmmaker is inspired by Woody Allen – as opposed to, say, Quentin Tarantino or Zack Snyder. Case in point: First-timer James C. Ferguson,…
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Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the…
Michelle Monaghan and Mélanie Laurent + filthy Italian politics: Awards season surprising film critics’ winners + Best Original Song Oscar.
Tyrone Power and Loretta Young. Tyrone Power I: Hollywood Career Rumors of a Tyrone Power-Errol Flynn romance. Total myth? Is there any evidence that Power was at all attracted to…
‘The Marines Are Coming’: Gay star’s final movie The Marines Are Coming was a last-minute substitution for the 1936 version of M’Liss, starring Anne Shirley, which was originally scheduled but…
Sitting Pretty with Clifton Webb. In the late 1940s, the bucolic suburb of Hummingbird Hill is shaken in its tranquil complacency by the scandalous actions of two middle-aged, unmarried men. Each of…
Jesse Rosen in The Art of Being Straight. In Jesse Rosen’s feature-film debut, The Art of Being Straight, 23-year-old Jon (played by Rosen himself), recently arrived in Los Angeles after…
The Watermelon Woman with Cheryl Dunye and Guinevere Turner. Actress-filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and producer Alexandra Juhasz will be present at the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles for a screening of…
Tina O’Grady, a member of the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s “cultural competency initiative” was scolded by her boss after co-workers complained about an e-mail she had forwarded promoting the…