S/D: Gay movies of arty qualities

a Bright Lights article, "Glancing, Cruising, Staring," covers Female Trouble, Paris Is Burning, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Death in Venice and Haynes:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/57/queer.html

Destroy: Broken Sky

I like watching 20-year-old Mexican guys kiss and hump as much as the next fella, but... PONDEROUS

so Tearoom is part of the Whitney Biennial...

http://www.williamejones.com/collections/about/11

Dancing: Ballroom not mentioned? Ararki cited, but not Mysterious Skin?

De Vierde Man!

HellBent and Hard are pretty arty, as slasher films go.

Rosa von Praunheim, anyone?

http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2008/04/homos-in-distress-two-from-film-society.html

Even though I am an "aging homosexual," I really couldn't hook into this film thoroughly:

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/006390.html

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!

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.

i love too much here.

- Guy Maddin
- Noam Gonick
- Ryan Trecartin

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.

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

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/09/07/george_kuchar_filmmaker_and_provocateur_who_inspired_john_waters_dead_at_69

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)

he co-wrote and appeared in it; Curt McDowell directed.

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.

try A Thousand Clouds... by him. a lot less enervating to my eyes.

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

Oh no. I love the Kuchar brothers. I got on this thread to suggest Thundercrack. :(

A rundown on Weekend:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/andrew-haighs-weekend

I'm about where Uhl1ch is on this one.

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.

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

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

Looks sort of Peter Greeenaway-ish?

haven't seen a thing, could be.

here's a preview piece:

http://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/film/shock-opera-the-first-north-american-film-retrospective-of-werner-schroeter

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

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

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).

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

looking fwd to the new Julian Hernandez at Newfest NYC tnite

(not safe for Facebook)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e8tUqT19Q

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.

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.

S: sadie benning

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

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.

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.

i see what you're saying re TD but it never occurred to me while watching EB.

Didn't care for EB becoming a hotel melodrama.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/readers-poll-the-50-most-important-lgbt-filmmakers-20150615

Top 10:

01. Pedro Almodovar
02. Todd Haynes
03. Gus Van Sant
04. R.W. Fassbinder
05. John Waters
06. Derek Jarman
07. Lisa Cholodenko (tie)
07. Lee Daniels (tie)
09. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
10. Xavier Dolan

Pasolini at #13; Visconti at #21; Warhol at #24; Davies at #33.

well i'm glad Visconti and Pasolini arent alive to read that

Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): "Ally About My Mother" (1999)

howling

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.

(well, more like top 5 - past that I don't care so much)