SYNOPSIS
A collage of images, a metaphor for love in the time of AIDS, a personal reading of Jean Genet’s influence on gay culture and queer aesthetics. Put together like a palimpsest of images and sounds, the film brings Genet’s words to the foreground…Read More »
Queer Cinema(s)
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Constantine Giannaris – Jean Genet Is Dead (1989)
Queer Cinema(s)1981-1990Constantine GiannarisDramaGreeceShort Film -
Constantine Giannaris – Apo tin akri tis polis AKA From the Edge of the City (1998)
Constantine Giannaris1991-2000CrimeDramaGreeceQueer Cinema(s)A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.Read More »
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Volker Schlöndorff – Die Stille nach dem Schuß AKA The Legend of Rita (2000)
Volker Schlöndorff1991-2000DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)RomanceDie Stille nach dem Schuss or The Silence after the Shot, known in English as The Legend of Rita, is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members. After a brief overview of the initial bank robberies of the 2nd of June Movement with the distribution of chocolate kisses as well as a disastrous prison break at the Westberliner Prison, the group flees, via the Friedrichstraße train station, into the German Democratic Republic.Read More »
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Robert Downey Sr. – Too Much Sun (1990)
1981-1990CampComedyQueer Cinema(s)Robert Downey Sr.USAQuote:
On his deathbed, billionaire O.M. Rivers (Howard Duff) is tricked into altering his will by a grasping Catholic priest (Jim Haynie). The dying man is persuaded to add a stipulation to his bequests: one of Rivers’ two offspring must produce an heir within a year of his death or his millions will go to the church. The catch is that Rivers’ son Sonny (Eric Idle) is gay and his daughter Bitsy (Andrea Martin) is a lesbian.Read More » -
Shûsuke Kaneko – Yuri no Amaoto AKA When the Rain Falls (2022)
2021-2030DramaEroticaJapanQueer Cinema(s)Shûsuke Kaneko“A film, which, despite a plot where almost all protagonists have sex with each other, is quite grounded in reality…” ~ Asian Movie Pulse
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Hazuki clips her nails every time it rains. She caressed ‘her’ with these fingers back then. Hazuki, an editor of a publishing company now, is attracted by Shiori, the head of planning. On a day when the two women soaked wet in the rain, they enter an motel for shelter and take a shower. There Hazuki sees the image of her lost “girlfriend” in Shiori and eventually they reach out to each other.Read More » -
Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)
Nancy Meckler1941-1950DramaQueer Cinema(s)United KingdomThis all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certainRead More »
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Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping – Femme (2023)
Sam H. Freeman2021-2030Ng Choon PingQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUnited KingdomFollows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.Read More »
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Roman Perez Jr. – Putahe (2022)
2021-2030DramaEroticaPhilippinesQueer Cinema(s)Roman Perez Jr.When Euka arrives on the island, Jenny, a young barrio lass aspires to be like her. When Euka teaches her everything, Jenny realizes she has taken a dose of her own medicine.Read More »
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Fred Halsted – Dirty Books (1981)
1981-1990DocumentaryEroticaFred HalstedQueer Cinema(s)USAA rare film from Fred Halsted (known for LA Plays Itself). This encode is based on chef’s upload of the Alpha Blue Archives release.
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Part pseudo-documentary, it switches from group stroking, mutual masturbation, oral sex and a bit of anal intercourse with historic images and art photo set.Read More »