Charles Vidor – Gilda [+Extras] (1946)
I warned you once. You didn’t listen. Now you’re through.– Through with what? – The casino. You’re fired. You are mistaken. I will be here after you are gone, Mr. Peasant. Plot Synopsis In Argentina,...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar – Kika (1993)
Quote: Harshly treated by the critics on release, of Pedro Almodovar’s work, Kika is perhaps the one that most benefits from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story of Kika (an astonishing Veronica...
View ArticleVincent Dieutre – Mon voyage d’hiver AKA My Winter Journey (2003)
SYNOPSIS: German filmmaker Vincent Dieutre is accompanied by a close friend’s teenage son on a trip to Berlin and in the process reminisces about his life as a gay man in his 2003 autobiographical...
View ArticleNina Reyes Rosenberg – Organism (2010)
The story of the on / off relationship of high school lovers Carmen and Jen. Sometimes surreal but always sexy, this short film places the spotlight on relationship blues in a palette of dayglo pink...
View ArticleGianna Sobol – Public Relations (2010)
Sienna Farall and Summer Bishil, star in this hilarious short film about a miserable Hollywood assistant who finds romance when her sexy New York counterpart arrives in town. A funny, fresh take on...
View ArticleGus Van Sant – My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Quote: Non-normative texts concern themselves with subject matter that is marginalized, or not widely accepted as “normal.” Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho – an ode to the abandoned, and the...
View ArticleSteve McLean – Postcards from London (2018)
A stylish, sexy film about a young man’s journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London’s Soho. Film Review: Postcards From London at Melbourne Queer Film Festival...
View ArticleOlga Chajdas – Nina (2018)
After twenty years, Nina’s marriage to Wojtek is going nowhere, partly because of their failed attempts to have children. When they meet a young woman, Magda, they decide to propose that she become a...
View ArticleJohn Schlesinger – Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Quote: In 1969, following an anti-establishment path blazed famously by Bonnie and Clyde, then-X-rated Midnight Cowboy lumbered into the cinema consciousness and swiped the Best Picture Oscar. While...
View ArticleMiguel Arteta – Duck Butter (2018)
Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy....
View ArticleKarla Eduvia – Lesbian Angels (2011)
Quote: A revealing peek into the lives of young lesbians in Los Angeles, who through interviews and poetry, share their experiences and insight about life, love and everything in between....
View ArticleTerence Fisher – The Brides of Dracula (1960)
The vampire Baron Meinster (David Peel) terrorizes a girl’s academy, and it’s up to Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) to stop him… Following the phenomenal success of their 1958 version of Dracula...
View ArticleRoman Polanski – Bitter Moon (1992)
Plot description : A prim and proper British couple, Fiona (Thomas) and Nigel (Grant), are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul, en route to India. They encounter another couple on the ship, the...
View ArticleChristophe Honoré – Métamorphoses (2014)
Quote: One of France’s most unpredictable writer-directors, Christophe Honoré (Dans Paris, Love Songs) offers an audacious, erotically upfront re-reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, enacted by a fearless...
View ArticleWarren Sonbert – Short Fuse and Carriage Trade (1972 – 1992)
“In [Sonbert’s] best work, behind the mask of unalloyed visual pleasure lurks a dramatic intensity and trajectory, not just of personal concerns or protracted journeys but of massive social upheavals,...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Querelle (1982)
Quote: More a dream about than a dramatisation of Genet’s novel, this is glorious and infuriating in equal parts. The port of Brest is built and lit more like one of Burroughs’ Cities of the Red...
View ArticleRodolphe Marconi – Ceci est mon corps AKA This is my Body (2001)
Antoine’s future is all mapped out. A student at France’s top business college, some day he’ll slip into his father’s shoes at the head of a booming company. Antoine is brilliant, but he’s bored. As a...
View ArticleJenifer Malmqvist – Födelsedag AKA Birthday (2010)
Sara prepares a surprise for her wife Katarina’s birthday with the help of their daughter Johanna and their friend Fredrik. But on this early summer day, Katarina has something to tell her that will...
View ArticleSijie Dai – Les Filles du botaniste AKA The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters (2006)
Forbidden love upsets the real and symbolic balance of an earthly paradise in “The Chinese Botanist’s Daughters,” a languid lesbian romance set in China in the early ’90s. While pic (lensed in...
View ArticleNagisa Ôshima – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence aka Furyo (1983)
Quote: Here’s a movie that is even stranger than it was intended to be. “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” is about a clash between two cultures (British and Japanese) and two styles of military service...
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