The tale of a transgender woman out to castrate our male-dominated planet, Myra Breckinridge is an all-out mess. Raquel Welch and Mae West star.
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While London’s Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is proceeding at full speed, here’s a brief q&a (via e-mail) with Lisa Daniel, the director of another gay film festival elsewhere in…
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How to cure gay romantic woes: Love and Other Disasters. The 2008 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival kicked off last night, March 27, with a screening of Alek Keshishian’s…
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Edmund Goulding directs a young Joan Crawford in the MGM melodrama Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) at the beginning of their, respectively, directorial and acting careers. Image: Matthew Kennedy Collection.…
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Cinematographer David Watkin, best known for his work on Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire and Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa, the 1985 Best Picture Academy Award winner starring Meryl Streep…
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Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight. It’s Oscar time. What better way to celebrate the 2008 Academy Awards than by having a q&a about the best actress Oscar winner ……
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Buck Angel in Schwarzwald. CineKink – the name says it all – has announced the opening night selections of its fifth annual film festival, CineKink NYC. The event, scheduled for…
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Deep blue sea explored in Howard Hall’s documentary Deep Sea 3D. Deep Sea 3D, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, and Roving Mars will be screened as part of the…
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The Academy Award-winning documentaries The Stone Carvers (above) and The Times of Harvey Milk will be screened on Monday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Isabella Leong and Rainie Yang as lesbian lovers in Spider Lilies. The Speed of Life wins first Queer Lion: Early Venice Film Festival winners The Venice Film Festival’s first Queer…
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Merlin Gaspers and Dorian Brockington in 25 Cent Preview. Cyrus Amini’s 25 Cent Preview, the story of two down-and-out San Francisco street hustlers, was the Grand Jury’s choice for best…
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Gay kiss: Hilary Swank and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don’t Cry (top); Eduardo Noriega and Leonardo Sbaraglia in Burnt Money (bottom). The most famous – and most effective – sequence in Giuseppe…
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Phillip Kramer, Tori Spelling, and James O’Shea in Kiss the Bride. Robert Cary’s Save Me, the story of a substance-abusing gay man who attempts to be cured of both his…
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Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next…
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The New York Public Library’s Donnell Media Center is presenting “The Two Faces of Wakefield Poole,” centering on the filmmaker of X-rated gay and not-so-gay cult classics such as Boys in…
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Itty Bitty Titty Committee with Nicole Vicius and Melonie Diaz: “Radical” lesbian comedy was this year’s SXSW Film Festival Best Narrative Feature winner. SXSW Film Festival Awards: ‘Radical’ lesbian comedy…
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Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct 2. Are gay slurs just that, (vulgar, offensive, insensitive) gay slurs, no matter the occasion? This somewhat esoteric question is neither asked nor answered in…
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Pale Man (Doug Jones) in underground, dark fantasy. Guillermo del Toro’s post-Spanish-Civil-War-set Pan’s Labyrinth / El laberinto del fauno was the National Society of Film Critics’ surprise…
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Ryan Murphy’s Running with Scissors movie version of Augusten Burroughs’ memoirs is a dramatic mess. Annette Bening is its sole redeeming feature.
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Brian De Palma’s neo-noir The Black Dahlia is a poor imitation of 1940s films noirs. Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank are the badly miscast stars.
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Little Miss Sunshine with Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette. ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ review: Script suffers from severe case of mad crowd-pleasing disease Much…
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Male power in early 20th century Made in 1919, the year before women gained the right to vote in the United States, the ultimately disappointing (and sleep-inducing) Phil-for-Short tells the…
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Directed by first-time filmmaker Julian Jarrold from a screenplay by Geoff Deane and Calendar Girls co-screenwriter Tim Firth, Kinky Boots is officially a fictional motion picture inspired by a true…
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Tom Hompertz and Louis Waldon in Andy Warhol’s ‘Lonesome Cowboys.’ ‘Gay cowboy movies’ directed by Andy Warhol & Ang Lee: London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival screenings Among the film…
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Marc-André Grondin in C.R.A.Z.Y. C.R.A.Z.Y. movie tops Genie Awards “I’m touched. This has been something – a crazy experience,” remarked C.R.A.Z.Y. filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the Academy of Canadian…
Banned gay movies in Australia & Singapore And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they…
Frozen River with Melissa Leo and Mark Boone Junior: Sundance Film Festival Awards. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, first-time filmmaker Courtney Hunt’s…
Hollywood Home Movies: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (top); Esther Williams (bottom). Rarely seen home movies from the personal collections of Alfred Hitchcock, Esther Williams (above), Steve McQueen, Lauren Bacall…
Movies with gay characters: A fey Charles Laughton as Nero, plus Claudette Colbert and Fredric March in The Sign of the Cross. Inspired by Richard Barrios’ book Screened Out: Playing Gay…
Cesar Romero: Hollywood leading man and second lead in the 1930s and 1940s. Cesar Romero centennial tribute: ‘The White Rose’ Los Angeles’ Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will be…
Likely Best Actress European Film Award and Academy Award nominee Penélope Cruz – for Pedro Almodóvar’s family comedy-drama Volver – will receive this year’s AFI FEST Tribute at 7 p.m.…
Forbidden love movies among Outfest Awards’ favorites Outfest 2006 was held between July 6–17. Among the winners of the 2006 Outfest - the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival…