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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Stranger by the Lake Directed by Alain Guiraudie Les Films du Worso, et al. Blue Is the Warmest Color Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche Quat’sous Films, et al. IT…More
NO TV EVENT sparked the summer heat quite like Behind the Candelabra, the HBO biopic about Liberace’s love affair with Scott Thorson, a man more than forty years his junior. (The film was reportedly rejected by the major studios for being “too gay.”) Much of the fanfare involved the casting of Michael Douglas (now 68) as Liberace and Matt Damon as his kept boy.
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This series, “Contemporary Film Directors,” is now joined by Rob White’s in-depth examination of one of the most vital filmmakers
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Gore Vidal is Nicholas wrathall’s second documentary, and he has been a producer of several films since 1999. This interview was conducted via e-mail by the GLR editor in late June.
MoreWHY did James Franco, rich and famous Hollywood actor/dilettante, want to make a graphic film about the gay leather subculture? That’s what everyone on screen is asking in the resulting sixty-minute film, Interior. Leather Bar., co-directed, written, and edited by gay filmmaker Travis Mathews. A lot of viewers will ask the same question, but nothing in the film will answer it.
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A RELATIONSHIP can work like an addiction, giving a taste of infinite satisfaction while keeping its members clinging to each other. In Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs (The Delta, Forty Shades of Blue) has brilliantly documented the arc of his own troubled nine-year relationship with literary agent, author, and addict Bill Clegg.
MoreBASED ON THE NOVEL by Peter Cameron, the movie Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a curious hybrid of international film financing and American “indie” narrative style. The story deals with a teenage boy from the hip urban haute bourgeoisie living somewhere in Manhattan or Brooklyn’s chic bohemia …
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Reviews of the books Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare, Red Nails, Black Skates, The Letter Q, Banned in Boston, Montreal’s Gay Village, Margins of Tolerance: Stories,<.em> and the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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NEW YORK’s GLBT film series, NewFest 2012, was a milestone this year. The East Coast organizers have partnered with Los Angeles Outfest, and programming was held at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater in cooperation with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. …
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