Author: Akram Herrak

Akram Herrak

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May-June 2024
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John Waters Went There

By Peter Muise: The Hollywood star, the museum exhibit, and the book are huge honors for John Waters. It’s been a long, strange trip to mainstream acceptance for Waters, an auteur who specializes in what he calls “art-exploitation” films and who was dubbed the “Pope of Trash” by William S. Burroughs in 1986.

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Queer Ghosts on Oscar Night

Feature By Andrew White: That LGBT people in film are disproportionately represented as killers or as killed (or both) is not breaking news. …å Here my focus—and grievance—is with Oscar-winning films and roles after 1985 in which LGBT people perish or come to a bad end.

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The Making of Longtime Companion

IN THE LATE 1980s, getting a motion picture made about LGBT people that didn’t cast them as villains, psychos, or freaks was a momentous challenge. A mainstream feature film about a group of gay men dealing—and dying—in the midst of the AIDS epidemic was nearly impossible. While there had been a TV movie thatMore

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Spoiler Alert (Not Really)

Film Review By Andrew Holleran: Everything in All of Us Strangers—the music, the cinematography, the sets, even the darkness and twilight in which the movie mostly takes place—is so beautifully done; it’s no surprise that this story came originally from Japanese culture.
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