Queer & Now & Then

April 22, 2020

Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films

April 8, 2020

Brief encounter: Andy Milligan’s Vapors radiates passion, spontaneity, and a genuine drive that are unfakeable

March 25, 2020

Masked man: in All That Heaven Allows Rock Hudson’s masculinity is untortured, undeniable, and unperturbed by matters of self-identity

March 11, 2020

Sacred and profane: Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando is dogged in its refusal to fit easy categories

February 26, 2020

Unmasked: from its opening scene, João Pedro Rodrigues’s O Fantasma might as well be screaming “I’m gay!”

February 12, 2020

Fabulous fascists: that there have been more gay Nazis than gay victims of Nazis on-screen is evidence of our culture’s entrenched homophobia

January 29, 2020

Beneath the surface: Everyone in Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies just wants to be adored

January 15, 2020

Big deal: Patsy Kelly was a brash delight whose unapologetic openness about her life would be a persistent problem with studio gatekeepers

January 2, 2020

It’s a jungle out there: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady, love is transformative

December 18, 2019

Bah, humbug: in the many versions of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past has rarely been portrayed as a properly gender-less character