Performance (1970) Film Review
There will always be an argument as to who was the real auteur behind the camera.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Gangster, Queer Film/TV
There will always be an argument as to who was the real auteur behind the camera.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated, YouTube
Starring a luminous Carrie Snodgress, the last movie that director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife Eleanor made together is their best.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Future gay activist Larry Kramer’s adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s 1920 novel was an enormous critical and commercial success earning four Oscar Nominations:
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 21, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Under Appreciated, Western
Hume Cronyn and John Randolph are our happy and well-adjusted gay couple. Yes, they fight and bicker all the time. However, they are clearly madly in love with each other.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
As we saw in the 2020 remake, Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” has stood the test of time beautifully.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 27, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Excellent work by Robert Stephens (his best screen performance) and Colin Blakely (Dr. Watson). Geneviève Page gives a gorgeous melancholy performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
“The Garden of the Finzi Continis” is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by gay Italian writer Giorgio Bassani who is played in the film by Helmut Berger.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Visconti’s best idea was changing Aschenbach’s profession from a writer to a composer opening up the movie to the Mahler Adagietto .
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
In “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, Murray Head plays a free-spirited bisexual who is having simultaneous relationships with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
A landmark in both New Queer Cinema and the New German Cinema, Fassbinder’s examination of the dynamics of a lesbian love triangle was shot in der wunderkind’s apartment.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
Based on the 1966 Broadway musical “Cabaret” by Kander and Ebb which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories” (1945).
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
And then there Tillie’s other best friend Jimmy, the film’s token gay guy, played by René Auberjonois, who had one of the most memorable names in cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 5, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Unfortunately, despite a good performance by Weld, the film only comes alive when she is driving endlessly around LA’s spectacular freeways.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Rita Walden, played beautifully by Joanne Woodward, in what is probably her best performance is about to go through a midlife crisis.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jun 27, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, BFI Classics, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Another example of a gay character whose sole purpose in the movie is to be killed. Still, Zinnemmann and Rodgers treat his character with a modicum of respect.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 22, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Mystery, Thriller
Polanski captured the FEEL of LA better than anyone before or sense. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as private dick J. J. ” Jake” Gittes.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Cinematographers, Drama, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Directed by Jack Clayton, from an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, this was the third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 11, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
In “Jeanne Dielman”, a feminist masterpiece, the everyday details of a caring mother contrast with her life as a prostitute.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Horror, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Mystery
Weir, who showed, like Hitchcock, that horror can be visited upon us on the brightest and most beautiful of summer days.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Fantasy, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
It is, of course, a GROUP EXPERIENCE with those inspired zingers going back to the screen, composed by a generation of audience members over the years.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Gangster, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Pacino is magnificent. With Michael Corleone in The Godfather movies, “Dog Day Afternoon” is his defining role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Why did Billy Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahassee Bridge? The answer, according to director Max Baer, is because he slept with a man.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Horror, Pauline Kael, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Brian De Palma’s masterpiece and one of the GREAT HORROR MOVIES with tremendous performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The unforgettable score is by Pino Donaggio.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.
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