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Dog Day Afternoon
»rank: 7378
: essential video:A gripping true crime yarn, a juicy slice of overheated New York atmosphere, and a splendid showcase for its young actors, Dog Day Afternoon is a minor classic of the 1970s. The opening montage of New York street life (set to Elton John's lazy 'Amoreena') establishes the oppressive mood of a scorching afternoon in the city with such immediacy that you can almost smell the garbage baking in the sun and the water from the hydrants evaporating from the sizzling pavement. ...
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Daughters of Darkness
»rank: 32868
: :Art-movie goddess Delphine Seyrig (Last Year at Marienbad) slinks through the plush Eurotrash settings as the deathless Elizabeth Bathory, Vampire Countess, in Harry Kümel's minor Dutch classic of lesbian erotic-gothic. Blood mingles with water during the languorous shower scenes. Set at an upper-crust seaside resort, the 1971 film recounts Bathory's plot to replace her current consort (Andrea Rau) with a fresher specimen, an abused newlywed whose brutal young husband is an inconvenience waiting to be eliminated. Although both the bi-sex and the neck-biting ...
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Victor Victoria
»rank: 2098
: essential video:Blake Edwards's delightful Victor/Victoria may be one of the last of the great, old-style movie musical comedies--it is so good, it was turned into a hit Broadway stage musical years later. And both versions starred Edwards's wife Julie Andrews (the former Mary Poppins) in the title role--as Victor and Victoria. She's a down-and-out singer who hooks up with a flamboyantly gay theatrical veteran (Robert Preston), and together they become the toast of 1934 Paris by dreaming up a provocative nightclub act ...
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Torch Song Trilogy
»rank: 20961
: :Harvey Fierstein had a smash hit on Broadway with the stage version of this story about a drag queen, but whatever the magic there was doesn't show up in this film adaptation. (Fierstein allegedly couldn't line up an A-list or even B-list director in 1988 to tackle the gay story line, so he agreed to work with Paul Bogart, a ubiquitous television director but an undistinguished feature filmmaker.) Fierstein's performance is fine, but likely a shadow of his live work, while Anne Bancroft ...
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For a Lost Soldier
»rank: 24692
: :Harvey Fierstein had a smash hit on Broadway with the stage version of this story about a drag queen, but whatever the magic there was doesn't show up in this film adaptation. (Fierstein allegedly couldn't line up an A-list or even B-list director in 1988 to tackle the gay story line, so he agreed to work with Paul Bogart, a ubiquitous television director but an undistinguished feature filmmaker.) Fierstein's performance is fine, but likely a shadow of his live work, while Anne Bancroft ...
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The Silence
»rank: 28381
:Description:The Silence, the third film of Bergman's religious trilogy (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light), depicts a world in which God is silent, a world of despair. United since childhood in a love-hate relationship of lesbian incest, two sisters struggle and part as the younger seeks her freedom in a heterosexual affair. Bergman expresses their conflict in visual terms, with little dialogue, as he probes deeply into loneliness, love, and sexual obsession. His somber view of modern man's condition, wherein human relations are ...
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Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
»rank: 33019
: :First-time director Tommy 0'Haver garnered a lot of critical acclaim for this contribution to the 'new queer cinema.' But he seems more clued in as to its weight than the reviewers. 0'Haver rightly calls Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss a Tommy 0'Haver 'trifle' in the credits and he's on the money in estimating what his film is worth. For sure, the movie has much going for it; it's wholeheartedly enjoyable and packed with the usual dynamic that saturates most gay-themed films: what does one ...
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Anita: Dances of Vice
»rank: 46443
: :First-time director Tommy 0'Haver garnered a lot of critical acclaim for this contribution to the 'new queer cinema.' But he seems more clued in as to its weight than the reviewers. 0'Haver rightly calls Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss a Tommy 0'Haver 'trifle' in the credits and he's on the money in estimating what his film is worth. For sure, the movie has much going for it; it's wholeheartedly enjoyable and packed with the usual dynamic that saturates most gay-themed films: what does one ...
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Sebastiane
»rank: 42721
: :First-time director Tommy 0'Haver garnered a lot of critical acclaim for this contribution to the 'new queer cinema.' But he seems more clued in as to its weight than the reviewers. 0'Haver rightly calls Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss a Tommy 0'Haver 'trifle' in the credits and he's on the money in estimating what his film is worth. For sure, the movie has much going for it; it's wholeheartedly enjoyable and packed with the usual dynamic that saturates most gay-themed films: what does one ...
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Together Alone
»rank: 40376
: :First-time director Tommy 0'Haver garnered a lot of critical acclaim for this contribution to the 'new queer cinema.' But he seems more clued in as to its weight than the reviewers. 0'Haver rightly calls Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss a Tommy 0'Haver 'trifle' in the credits and he's on the money in estimating what his film is worth. For sure, the movie has much going for it; it's wholeheartedly enjoyable and packed with the usual dynamic that saturates most gay-themed films: what does one ...
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