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The Color Purple
(1985)
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Angela Bowen
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I didn't really expect to see "my" movie made. And I was right.
Posted May 31, 2023
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Richard's Things
(1980)
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Kate Rushin
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The tensions build and the film goes on and on for an hour and 45 minutes, as tantalizing, and unsatisfying, as the women’s affair.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Forbidden Letters
(1979)
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Michael Bronski
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The film proves that it can be a pleasure for gay audiences to support gay art.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Ode to Billy Joe
(1976)
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Thom Willenbecher
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Ode to Billy Joe is a complex and highly sensitive film, masquerading as a teenage summer romance.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Edward Scissorhands
(1990)
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Michael Bronski
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It looks and feels original and new; startling, yet at the same time comforting.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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The Garden
(1990)
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Michael Bronski
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Not all of The Garden is easy or pleasing, but Jarman’s intelligence and honesty shine through every frame.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Sweetie
(1989)
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Elizabeth Pincus
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Sweetie bombs ahead with almost unbearable intensity. The overall effect is a visceral captivation that lingers on, disturbingly.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Second Serve
(1986)
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Art Cohen
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Second Serve gives us only a glimpse of the struggle and torment Richards must have experienced as she slowly comes out to people and figures out how to move forward.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Liberace: Behind the Music
(1988)
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Christopher Wittke
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Liberace...Behind the Music is heavy on the glitter but light on reality.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Sheba, Baby
(1975)
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Jango
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I was repulsed in my deepest gut.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Eboli
(1979)
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Michael Bronski
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What is impressing about the film is its ability to convey the slow pace of village life without losing any of the complexity.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Ladies on the Rocks
(1983)
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Loie Hayes
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Ladies on the Rocks is realistic without being heavy-handed, and beautiful without being arty.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Streetwise
(1984)
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Michael Bronski
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The filmmakers have photographed and arranged this raw material so that we are distanced, rather than brought into it.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Just One of the Guys
(1985)
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Gay Community News Staff
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A sassy, funny beginning for the summer film season.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Torch Song Trilogy
(1988)
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Christopher Wittke
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Fierstein has created a fine, funny work that manages to touch on love, lust, homophobia, gaybashing and the importance of pride and self-reliance.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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We Think the World of You
(1988)
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Michael Bronski
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A small film, but it is by no means slight or undernourished.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
(1988)
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Michael Bronski
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Women on the Verge... has so many comic and visual pleasures that you never feel cheated.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
(1975)
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Pat M. Kuras
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It is an unexplained mystery thriller that is exotic, erotic and exquisite.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
(1960)
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Michael Bronski
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It is not the world’s best movie — at times it looks quite dated — but right now, for your money, it’s the best gay movie around.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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Pumping Iron
(1977)
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Ed Roginski
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I recommend the film highly if only because it is rare... a chance to see someone who has perfected an art form.
Posted Sep 22, 2022
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The Elephant Man
(1980)
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Andrea Loewenstein
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The Elephant Man is so disturbing — and so successful — because it makes you think about the privilege and oppression in a bottom-line way.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
(1983)
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Walta Borawski
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A must-see.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Hail Mary
(1985)
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Michael Bronski
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At any rate Hail Mary has some fine moments, and some provocative insights about women and creation.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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A Question of Silence
(1982)
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Julie Ogletree
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This film contains much stimulation; I guarantee you will not leave the theater in silence.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Lancelot of the Lake
(1974)
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Gary Jane Hoisington
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The gestures are too stylized, the actors too preciously frozen. But it's the very sense of crystallization the close-shot provides that makes Lancelot work.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Local Color
(1977)
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Michael Bronski
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Not only the gay or bisexual characters, but everyone has a sexual life that is integral to their wholeness as people. Sex is offhand, matter of fact, and realistic.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Impostors
(1979)
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Michael Bronski
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It is a crazy house of mirrors, every relationship reflecting another until we are never sure of what our own reality and response is, or should be.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Scenic Route
(1978)
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Michael Bronski
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We leave the film feeling that these three characters have been speaking and explaining their lives to one another and us forever.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Good Father
(1985)
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Ann Fry
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The characters are hollow, dislikable and ignorant of their own needs.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Times of Harvey Milk
(1984)
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Michael Bronski
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Both a documentary and a personal statement; a skillful recreation of history and an analysis of what history means to us as a gay community. It is as much a story of the birth and emergence of gay pride and gay anger as it is the story of any one man.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Passing Strangers
(1974)
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Lee Atwell
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Technically and thematically this film fulfils some of the goals of all good film-making. But beyond this, it expresses with great poignancy and feeling a positive level of gay consciousness.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Freebie and the Bean
(1974)
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Gay Community News Staff
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A cold, heartless, and deadening picture.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Towering Inferno
(1974)
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Gay Community News Staff
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Tired, bloated, overripe.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Without You I'm Nothing
(1990)
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Adrianna Alty
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An enjoyable and varied parody/celebration of pop culture.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Queen
(1968)
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Dennis Schuetz
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The Queen is an important film not only because of it’s study of the drag queen, but because, simply, it is a very good film.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Blood for Dracula
(1974)
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Gary Jane Hoisington
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Blood for Dracula is a dazzling display of obsessive cinematic structure.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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The Clinic
(1982)
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Peg Byron
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The Clinic is a warm and good humored "a day in the life of" a Sydney, Australia, VD clinic.
Posted Sep 21, 2022
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Longtime Companion
(1990)
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Michael Bronski
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Longtime Companion is shocking and moving in its forthright attempt to make us look at the lives that AIDS touches.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Colonel Redl
(1985)
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Clifford Gallo
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If you are fed up with Holly¬ wood’s lightweight Christmas fare, you couldn’t ask for a meatier alternative than Colonel Redl.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Prick Up Your Ears
(1987)
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Michael Bronski
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Prick Up Your Ears feels not like a treat, but a solid, fulfilling experience that comes to audiences very infrequently.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Committed
(1984)
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Michael Bronski
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Committed is a powerful and provocative film.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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The Last of England
(1988)
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Liz Galst
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It's an intensely visual film... explicitly queer, and, well, let's just say the film's progress does not rely too heavily on plot.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
(1988)
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Christopher Wittke
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It is awfully hard to knock a low-brow laugh-fest centered on a strong, explicitly sexual woman.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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From the Life of the Marionettes
(1980)
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Michael Bronski
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The trouble with From The Life Of The Marionettes is that we don’t care about any of the main characters: it might as well be a documentary about polar ice caps instead of people.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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'Night, Mother
(1986)
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Michael Bronski
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While the film is emotionally wrenching, it never becomes an exercise in masochism.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Straight Through the Heart
(1984)
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Michael Bronski
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Straight Through the Heart is wonderfully acted — Beate Jensen is riveting as the young woman — and well-photographed.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Dances Sacred and Profane
(1987)
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Michael Bronski
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Dances Sacred and Profane will be of special interest to the s/m community, not only because of the body piercing but because Musafar speaks at length of the connection between physical pain and psychic transcendence.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Happily Ever After
(1985)
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Michael Bronski
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Happily Ever After begins with a great idea but loses track of what it is trying to do.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Forbidden Relations
(1983)
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Michael Bronski
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It’s a slow film, but worthwhile for its examinations of two people who put their desire before their national allegiance and common sense.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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Sylvia
(1985)
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Carolyn Stack
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Sylvia does little to elaborate on the private lives of my countrywomen, but at least it keeps my fantasies intact.
Posted Sep 19, 2022
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