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Heat, the 1972 final part of director Paul Morrissey’s trilogy for producer Andy Warhol, provides a great role for a brilliant Sylvia Miles as a fading actress who falls for a breathtakingly handsome former child […]
Paul Morrissey follows up Flesh (1968) for producer Andy Warhol with the 1970 film Trash, a second fresh and funny slice of lowlives drama, again starring Joe Dallesandro as a good-looking lowlife. Writer-cinematographer-director Paul Morrissey […]
Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]
Todd Haynes revisits, sort of, the scene of his 2002 triumph, Far from Heaven, by filming Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story Carol. Haynes casts Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of his last movie I’m […]
Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]
With a screenplay based by John Herbert on his own hit Los Angeles, Broadway and London West End play, director Harvey Hart’s tough 1971 Canadian movie is a powerful, disturbing and mostly depressing experience. The […]
William Friedkin’s infamous 1980 thriller film Cruising stars Al Pacino as New York City police detective Steve Burns, who goes undercover among the gay leather set to catch an S&M serial killer preying on gay […]