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French film noir movie-maker Jean-Pierre Melville is an unexpected choice as writer-director for this surrealist and poetic 1950 film version of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel about the extremely odd relationship of a teenage brother and […]
Jesse Plemons stars as 30-year-old American gay man David, a struggling comedy writer and indeed struggling person, fresh from breaking up with his five-year long-term boyfriend, who returns to his home town of Sacramento, California, to […]
The good-looking 1976 romantic drama film Ode to Billy Joe explains why young Billy Joe McAllister (Robby Benson) jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, according the classic 1967 song by Bobbie Gentry. ‘What the song didn’t […]
Writer-director Jean-Claude Biette’s 1982 French comedy drama Loin de Manhattan is intriguing and densely scripted, with playful performances and teasing results. It stars Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, and Laura Betti. In Biette’s complex screenplay, […]
‘I feel I’m going through life like an American tourist, doing as many towns as possible.’ – Jean. Writer-director Cyril Collard stars as the bisexual HIV-positive film-maker Jean in his own promising movie Savage Nights [Les […]
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s riveting 2016 American documentary film is a fascinating two-hour examination of the life and work of the revered and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It captures on camera almost all the important participators in Mapplethorpe’s […]
Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar‘s sexy and thrilling 1997 12th feature film Live Flesh, or Carne Trémula in Spanish (literally ‘trembling flesh’), is a romantic drama thriller starring Liberto Rabal, Javier Bardem, and Francesca Neri. Almodóvar again successfully […]