so Tearoom is part of the Whitney Biennial...
http://www.williamejones.com/collections/about/11
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Dancing: Ballroom not mentioned? Ararki cited, but not Mysterious Skin?
De Vierde Man!
HellBent and Hard are pretty arty, as slasher films go.
― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Rosa von Praunheim, anyone?
http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/homos-in-distress-two-from-film-society.html
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Even though I am an "aging homosexual," I really couldn't hook into this film thoroughly:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006390.html
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 July 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Hoberman on making of Flaming Creaures:
http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/up-on-the-roof-20090312
In June, Rosa von Praunheim retro at NYC's Anthology Film Archives!
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 March 2009 16:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Early Paul Verhoeven, The Fourth Man: Gerard's homosexual relationship, shown at the beginning of the film, is of an unsupportive, bickering nature with violent overtones. Gerard is portrayed as an alcoholic, a shoplifter, a voyeur and contemptuous of his readers. When he sleeps with the petite Christine, he flattens her breasts with his hands and exclaims "you look like a boy in his glory; so slim, tender!" When Gerard flirts with Herman, he puts his hand on his thigh and says, "I could tell you stories. There's one bigwig bastard, when he throws a do. All the neighbors lock their kids up behind locks so thick. Children of six or seven years old, girls and boys, no difference. Find that fun? Little boys!" He seduces the heterosexual Herman by a surprise fondling of him from behind.
― Eazy, Friday, 20 March 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
i love too much here.
- Guy Maddin- Noam Gonick- Ryan Trecartin
― the table is the table, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
oh also:The Line of Beauty three-part miniseries adaptation by the BBC is quite good in its way-- very faithful to the book, in fact a bit more interesting.
― the table is the table, Friday, 20 March 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Wm E Jones retro in NYC this weekend/next week -- i've only seen Finished, which is compelling, and the OK Morrissey-fan doc:
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=THE%20FILMS%20OF%20WILLIAM%20E.%20JONES
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/09/07/george_kuchar_filmmaker_and_provocateur_who_inspired_john_waters_dead_at_69
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
George Kuchar's Thundercrack was a regular feature at the Scala cinema. Must have seen it a few times on double bills (with Lonesome Cowboys and Querelle I remember)
― Bob Six, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
he co-wrote and appeared in it; Curt McDowell directed.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
One of those scathing Armond White articles made me watch El Cielo Dividido (Broken Sky) by Julian Hernandez and I have to say that I liked it. There is nothing artier than slow fancy camerawork showing Mexican twinks gazing at each other all over the DF for 140 minutes with no dialog whatsoever. Liked the second half of Tropical Malady? You need to watch this right now. He has a new one that (from what I have read online) seems to be a Latin version of Apichatpong's queer classic.
― wolves lacan, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
try A Thousand Clouds... by him. a lot less enervating to my eyes.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
probably not arty enough, but does anyone remember that movie where john hurt falls in love with jason priestley
it was like death in venice with a dash of 90210
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no. I love the Kuchar brothers. I got on this thread to suggest Thundercrack. :(
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
A rundown on Weekend:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/andrew-haighs-weekend
I'm about where Uhl1ch is on this one.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 September 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
At the NYFF tonight they showed an intro George Kuchar recorded at the hospice for the two videos they showed. "It's a one-way ticket here," he said, worrying about his lighting.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 October 2011 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
search search search: luther price! saw a handful of his films last night, inc. 'sodom', which is mentioned in this good overview of his work from 2000:
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/lutherprice.php
― GREENS (the putting kind) (donna rouge), Friday, 11 November 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Werner Schroeter, anyone? Looks like only xyzzzz has posted much about him in the past. Anyway, cherished by Fassbinder, and subject of what looks to be a complete MoMA retro soon:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1271
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Looks sort of Peter Greeenaway-ish?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
haven't seen a thing, could be.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
here's a preview piece:
http://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/film/shock-opera-the-first-north-american-film-retrospective-of-werner-schroeter
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
so, again:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/werner-schroeter-1945-2010
I saw The Death of Maria Malibran last night, and Jarman is a closer comp than Greenaway, but not really.
Candy Darling lip-synching "St Louis Blues" in brownface :o
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 May 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
the queer canadian filmmaker john greyson has been jailed in egypt for over a week:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/30/john-greyson-tarek-loubani-canadians-egypt_n_3842458.html
watched his 'fig trees' the other night - astonishing (if a tad overlong) documentary/opera about AIDS activism, gertrude stein, and...albino squirrels
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Friday, 30 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
So I saw this last night, won't be released in NY til Jan 24 so there was no year-end rush anyway:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-nyff-2013-alain-guiraudies-stranger-by-the-lake
I was intrigued during the cruising scenes how a handful of people tittered when an old or overweight man was seen staring at our twinky antihero; I guess they are people who haven't been in such scenes and aren't aware that it can be a real age-and-shape melting pot, with an often rigid hierarchy of hotness, of course. (In the Q&A there was a question about whether this was "a period piece," as OF COURSE this doesn't go on much anymore, right? lol. Answer was basically "It does in France.")
Also the writer-director emphasized that it's not a psychological thriller, he wasn't interested in that. The metaphor, about AIDS but other dangers too, was almost overstated in one dialogue scene ("You people have a strange way of loving" -- not to do with plumbing, but impersonality and objectification).
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
RIP Peter de Rome, pioneering filmmaker of gay erotica
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/26/pete-de-rome-gay-film-maker-gielgud-warhol-bfi
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
looking fwd to the new Julian Hernandez at Newfest NYC tnite
(not safe for Facebook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e8tUqT19Q
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 July 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
A search turns up absolutely no discussion of Lilting, and frankly I can see why. Tasteful, pleasant and dull, the kind of gay film you could show to your parents. The (non-sexual) scenes of the new Q in bed with his lover were rather beautifully intimate, though; the film could have used more of them.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 April 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
I don't think people have called it a gay movie, but Greenaway's latest, Eisenstein in Guajanuato, is def an arty film about a gay relationship, with copious amounts of male nudity. And it's also one of his best, though I'm prob not the right to judge, as I kinda don't like Greenaway.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 19 April 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
S: sadie benning
― slam dunk, Monday, 20 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
on Ron Peck’s Nighthawks (1978) and Derek Jarman’s Will You Dance with Me? (1984), "two essential documents of gay London"
http://artforum.com/film/id=51679
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone seen Bertrand Bonello's Saint Laurent? It is a beautiful and arty film, and there's a whole subtheme about the development of gay culture in the late sixties/early seventies. Bonello will apparantly have a retro in NY in a few days, I think.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 25 April 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
Eastern Boys was pretty good. Did not really expect to see a gay Make Way For Tomorrow and now a gay Taxi Driver released within the same year.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 7 June 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
i see what you're saying re TD but it never occurred to me while watching EB.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
Didn't care for EB becoming a hotel melodrama.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/readers-poll-the-50-most-important-lgbt-filmmakers-20150615
Top 10:
01. Pedro Almodovar02. Todd Haynes03. Gus Van Sant04. R.W. Fassbinder05. John Waters06. Derek Jarman 07. Lisa Cholodenko (tie)07. Lee Daniels (tie)09. Apichatpong Weerasethakul10. Xavier Dolan
Pasolini at #13; Visconti at #21; Warhol at #24; Davies at #33.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
well i'm glad Visconti and Pasolini arent alive to read that
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): "Ally About My Mother" (1999)
howling
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
I love most of that top 10 but I just do not get Almodovar. I don't hate his stuff or anything - and I've sat through a bunch of them - I just don't find anything engaging in them to latch onto, the melodrama does not appeal.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
(well, more like top 5 - past that I don't care so much)
and I would've put Anger near the top
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
it's not straight melodrama, Shakes
and where is Tsai ming-Liang or Rosa von Praunheim?
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): "Querelle" (1982)
yes, ie the one that demonstrates maybe he died a few months late
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
perhaps I should clarify - I do not care about the characters and their problems
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
fascinating
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
clearly you are not an actressexual
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
do you care about Gael Garcia Bernal in wet briefs?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
lol @ actressexual
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Is Tsai ming-Liang officially out?
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
ya got me
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link