The Cinesexuals

If you are a regular reader and visitor to QUEERGURU, you will know that we don’t just love QUEER CINEMA but we also love QUEER FILMMAKERS (in a very healthy way, naturally).  We started to add up how many we have had the good fortune to interview so far but kind of got lost over […]

For a movie from 1947, 'Desert Fury' is shockingly clear about the relationship between two key male characters.

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade on channelling his own experience into one of the country’s only screen portrayals of homosexuality since it was decriminalised in 2018

Antonio Carlos da Fontoura’s 1974 gay gangster thriller returns in a gorgeous new restoration.

As the erotic fantasia Pink Narcissus returns to cinemas, we explore the legacy of the late underground filmmaker, with help from fans John Waters and Peter Strickland

“The Surprise of a Knight,” the first known queer “stag film,” shows how gender, sexuality and desire have always been fluid

These queer films pushed the boundaries of cinema.

Gay Torrents Live Free !

Before queer roles came with awards buzz and social media stan accounts, Antonio Banderas was already out here doing the work—and doing it boldly

by Earl Jackson The English title for "Hot boy nổi loạn" (Vũ Ngọc Đãng 2011), "Lost in Paradise", reflects the protagonist’s fantasy of Ho Chi Minh City Another Scene: Placing Fantasy in Two Vietnamese Gay Films Part I

Film students in the USA apparently no longer manage to watch a feature-length film from start to finish, according to a recent article in The

Michael Bully Herbig and Christian Tramitz ride through the Wild West again as Abahachi and Ranger. But can you still make a film like this today? Bully attempts a delicate balancing act.

BOOTLEG FILES 227: “Lot in Sodom” (1933 avant-garde short). LAST SEEN: Available online at several sites. AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: No official release, but it has been included in a few collections of old-time experimental shorts. REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: No copyright protection. CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not, due to its public

A subtle dispute over one subsidy is becoming a much bigger issue. It is not just about a specific film, but about who should have the right to decide what stories are made in the Czech Republic and what stories are suddenly

Writer-director Elliot Tuttle's debut feature is so controversial... it almost didn't make it to theaters.

USA, 2013, 82 Minute Running Time The world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton", directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the hetero-normative life of the ‘50s onward with its emphasis on frenetic consumerism and careerism. He embraced the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century by erasing the boundaries between poetry and cinema, thereby creating a new aesthetic in film. Slade and Silha capture the many personalities – like Pauline Kael, doyenne of the arts, with whom he had a child, and Anna Halprin, dancer and choreographer – that orbited Broughton throughout his life. Broughton’s performative films heavily influenced the "happenings" of the 1960s and, later, the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Their common denominator is the interplay of humor, play, and the id imbued with a theatrical dimension. His 1967 effervescent film The Bed is a landmark for its exploration of sexuality in all its forms. Broughton erased the division between life and art, philosophy and practice, poetry and cinema, creating a new idiom that defied categorization. DIRECTORS: Dawn Logsdon, Stephen Silha, Eric Slade Producer: Max St. Romain Editor: Dawn Logsdon, Kyung Lee Cinematographer: Ian Hinkle, Art Adams Music: Evan Schiller, Jami Sieber Principal Cast: Anna Halprin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Armistead Maupin, George Kuchar, Jack Foley, Alex Gildzen, Keith Hennessy, Joel Singer

USA, 2013, 82 Minute Running Time The world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In "Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton", directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the hetero-normative life of the ‘50s onward with its emphasis on frenetic consumerism and careerism. He embraced the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century by erasing the boundaries between poetry and cinema, thereby creating a new aesthetic in film. Slade and Silha capture the many personalities – like Pauline Kael, doyenne of the arts, with whom he had a child, and Anna Halprin, dancer and choreographer – that orbited Broughton throughout his life. Broughton’s performative films heavily influenced the "happenings" of the 1960s and, later, the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Their common denominator is the interplay of humor, play, and the id imbued with a theatrical dimension. His 1967 effervescent film The Bed is a landmark for its exploration of sexuality in all its forms. Broughton erased the division between life and art, philosophy and practice, poetry and cinema, creating a new idiom that defied categorization. DIRECTORS: Dawn Logsdon, Stephen Silha, Eric Slade Producer: Max St. Romain Editor: Dawn Logsdon, Kyung Lee Cinematographer: Ian Hinkle, Art Adams Music: Evan Schiller, Jami Sieber Principal Cast: Anna Halprin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Armistead Maupin, George Kuchar, Jack Foley, Alex Gildzen, Keith Hennessy, Joel Singer

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Gay Torrents Live Free !

In this anniversary essay, author Michael Ferguson looks back at the 1976 film adaptation of Bobbie Gentry’s mysterious hit song and its lasting, complicated legacy in queer cinema.

The works of the late Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. are remembered for blurring lines between the artistic and the erotic.

John Huston's 'The Maltese Falcon' featured three eccentric criminals who all came off more than a little queer...

Some of the most iconic stories in modern media feature gay couples. “Brokeback Mountain,” the story of two cowboys who fall in love with each other but are unable to pursue a real life together due to societal pressures of the mid-20th century, is one of the most beloved films of our generation.  However, as...

'We are the real Heated Rivalry!'

After a lifetime of settling for shame, secrecy and death onscreen, I had my doubts about “Heated Rivalry.” Then it seduced me, too.

What’s better than a long look at two hunky ice hockey players in love? A second long look, of course! Last week, we covered the basics of Heated Rivalry, the hit series currently streaming on HBO Max. Since hockey is a highly competitive sport, it was...

CGiii...for LGBT films, filmmakers & festivals

iCarol/i, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, is a luxurious lesbian period film — so luxurious, in fact, that the women can seem like beautiful symbols just beyond our reach.