THE TURNING POINT (1977) Queer Film C+
How this managed to get eleven Oscar nominations only Hollywood knows. Browne and Baryshnikov cannot act and all of their scenes are painful to watch.
Read More
Author: Patrick Browne
The Goodbye Girl (1977) Queer Film (C)
Unfortunately, Elliot’s director (Paul Benedict) is a raving, mincing queen who insists that Dreyfus play the part of Shakespeare’s Richard III like Bette Midler.
Read More
The Betsy (1978) Queer Film (F)
Loren Hardeman (Paul Ryan Rudd), the heir to Bethlehem Motors, is queer. Loren kills himself – it is Harold Robbins!
Read More
A Different Story (1978) Queer Film (D)
That old you-can-switch-at-any-time scenario raises its ugly head. Interestingly, no photos of Foster with Curtain or King with Donat – their previous queer partners – appear in the still’s library. Yet it is Foster’s spirited performance, especially in the earlier scenes when she IS a dyke, that gives this awful movie its only fleeting moments of pleasure, its only grounding in reality. She saves it from an F rating.
Read More
Big Wednesday (1978) Queer Film (F)
Handled with the right tone, these scenes could have been funny, but Milius bungles it, and they end up as some of the most homophobic cinematic moments of a very homophobic decade.
Read More