James Baldwin Comes Alive in Film Classic
James Baldwin came alive as never before in Karen Thorsen’s documentary James Baldwin: The Price Of The Ticket, first released in 1990 and rereleased on its 25th anniversary in a…More
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An English Martyr
“BASED ON A TRUE STORY” are probably the most ominous words in film, but that’s what flashes across the screen at the opening of The Imitation Game, the new biopic about the British mathematician Alan Turing.
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The Agony of Victory
IN THE DOCUMENTARY The Celluloid Closet (1995), Arthur Laurents memorably observes that “minority audiences watch films with hope. … That’s why nobody really sees the same movie.” His observation…More
Random Acts of Kindness
Pride Directed by Matthew Warchus Calamity Films EARLY ON IN PRIDE, after the leader of a ragtag group of London gay activists has proposed that they raise money…More
Tales of Two Artists in Mid-Century Paris
Yves Saint Laurent Directed by Jalil Lespert The Weinstein Company Violette Directed by Martin Provost Adopt Films ONE OF THE PITFALLS of any biopic is the…More
The Sloth of Sadness
NEAR THE BEGINNING of A Single Man, the novel by Christopher Isherwood on which Tom Ford’s new movie [in 2009] is based, a college English professor named George tells…More
Marriage Regained
The Case Against 8 Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White Moore’s Filmed Goods and Services, Tripod Media IT HAS BEEN over a year since Prop 8 and DOMA…More
Short Reviews
Reviews of the books: Gender Failure, Body Geographic, Changing Lives, Making History: Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, and For Today I Am a Boy; and the film: Valentine Road.
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We Interrupt This Family Drama…
Love is Strange, starring John Lithow and George Molina, showed most recently at the Provincetown International Film Festival in June.
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Close Encounters of the Unexpected Kind
Dallas Buyers Club is about a homophobic redneck electrician and part-time rodeo cowboy—based on a real guy named Ron Woodroof, brilliantly played by Matthew McConaughey—a drug addict who’s also a sex addict with a taste for orgies.
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