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
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Looks sort of Peter Greeenaway-ish?
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
haven't seen a thing, could be.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
here's a preview piece:
http://brooklynrail.org/2012/05/film/shock-opera-the-first-north-american-film-retrospective-of-werner-schroeter
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 May 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Friday, 30 August 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
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).
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
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
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 June 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
looking fwd to the new Julian Hernandez at Newfest NYC tnite
(not safe for Facebook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e8tUqT19Q
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 26 July 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Saturday, 18 April 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 19 April 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
S: sadie benning
― slam dunk, Monday, 20 April 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 25 April 2015 23:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Sunday, 7 June 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
i see what you're saying re TD but it never occurred to me while watching EB.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
Didn't care for EB becoming a hotel melodrama.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/readers-poll-the-50-most-important-lgbt-filmmakers-20150615
Top 10:
01. Pedro Almodovar02. Todd Haynes03. Gus Van Sant04. R.W. Fassbinder05. John Waters06. Derek Jarman 07. Lisa Cholodenko (tie)07. Lee Daniels (tie)09. Apichatpong Weerasethakul10. Xavier Dolan
Pasolini at #13; Visconti at #21; Warhol at #24; Davies at #33.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
well i'm glad Visconti and Pasolini arent alive to read that
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): "Ally About My Mother" (1999)
howling
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
(well, more like top 5 - past that I don't care so much)
and I would've put Anger near the top
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
it's not straight melodrama, Shakes
and where is Tsai ming-Liang or Rosa von Praunheim?
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): "Querelle" (1982)
yes, ie the one that demonstrates maybe he died a few months late
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
perhaps I should clarify - I do not care about the characters and their problems
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
fascinating
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
clearly you are not an actressexual
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
do you care about Gael Garcia Bernal in wet briefs?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
lol @ actressexual
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Is Tsai ming-Liang officially out?
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
ya got me
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
apparently he has been for awhile, but no one ever talks about him and lee Kang-sheng.
xp
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 June 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
7 (tie). Lee Daniels Born: 1959 in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDebut Film: "Shadowboxer" (2005)Most Important LGBT Film (According To You): Daniels hasn't really made a "LGBT film" per say, and didn't get any votes on our list.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 June 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
where are Mitchell Leisen and George Cukor and James Whale?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
They qualified the list as "post-Stonewall" era.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 15 June 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I can understand cavils about Almodovar, especially when after 1999 every movie got over the top praise despite being better than every one of his nineties movies.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
these days I get excited most about I'm So Excited, which no one much liked.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
I can't stand them, personally. I find them shrill and boring.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
do gays know you feel this way about them?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
VG
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Bad Education, Talk to Her, Law of Desire, and Volver may be boring but "shrill"? Come on now.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
And/or
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
I fucking loved I'm So Excited and cannot fathom why it was so critically panned when it was such a great return to form
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
my man
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
i'm usually won over by almodovar but i can see how the appeal is limited. kewl that tsai is gay. what time is it there? and goodbye, dragon inn are two of my favorite films ever. i would take him, joe and fassbinder in a pinch and be ok with leaving the rest of the top ten, or whatever. mainly i just want to see more tsai films, and the new joe film.
― e-bouquet (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
on balance, liked more gay directors in the closet
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 04:33 (nine years ago) link
"Masc only, plz."
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link
masked
cf Adam Brody Damsels speech
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Mouthing the words of a closeted man.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
sez you!
obv it's not a blanket statement, but Gregg Araki is living with a woman now, Christopher Munch has vanished, and X Dolan is kind of an idiot.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link