‘Lurid’ is an understatement when describing Screaming Mimi, Anita Ekberg’s 1958 foray into the realm of American B noir. Philip Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee costar.
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Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterwork The Passion of Joan of Arc will leave viewers as anguished as its magnificent martyr. Maria Falconetti stars.
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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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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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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…
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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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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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Sundance Film Festival Awards: Immigrant smuggling and skyscraper acrobats + Roman Polanski documentary and (non-winning) ‘gay zombie porn.’
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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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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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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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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.…
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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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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…
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…
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 ……
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…
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry box office: Starring a ‘gay’ Adam Sandler, Dennis Dugan’s lowbrow comedy topped the domestic chart.
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…
Gay Slurs: Sharon Stone vs Isaiah Washington name-calling controversy + Dakota Fanning Hounddog child rape furor and Jessica Lange vs George W. Bush.
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.