The Children’s Hour (1961) Queer Film (C)
Not having the courage of his convictions, what started out as bravery ended in cowardice and it’s a shame.
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Category: C
Billy Budd (1962) Queer Film (C)
Many, including gay composer Benjamin Britton and his famous opera, maintain that there is an undercurrent of homoeroticism between the three leads.
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David and Lisa (1962) Eleanor Perry (C)
In fact, many of Theodore Isaac Rubin’s beliefs have now fallen out of favor. Despite the film’s sensitive moments, it often seems dangerously simplistic and naive.
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The Group (1966) Queer Film. A Lost Opportunity. (C)
Sidney Lumet’s movie is like a microcosm of his career – he bites off more than he can chew. The film meanders incessantly, with only Joan Hackett’s Dottie (at the beginning), Elizabeth Hartman’s Priss (in the middle), and Shirley Knight’s Polly (at the end) getting the respect they deserve. The other five actresses and their characters get no respect or insight whatsoever. It’s a lost opportunity. With the dreadfully wooden Candice Bergen as lesbian Lakey.
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Valley of the Dolls (1967) Queer Film. High Camp at a Midnight Screening.
A movie to be seen AT A MIDNIGHT SCREENING WITH A GAY CROWD, – a GROUP experience. Do not see this movie on your own.
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Teorema (1968) Queer Film (C)
Teorem was Pasolini’s only movie to address homosexuality directly. Even then, it’s all pretty clinical.
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Diamonds are Forever (1971) Queer Film (C)
In Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are the chief pleasures in a film that ranks among the most disposable entries in the Bond canon.
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Pink Flamingos (1972) Queer Film. (C) High Camp at a Midnight Screening.
A sick-and-twisted black comedy and the first part of Water’s “Trash Trilogy”, which also includes “Female Trouble” and “Desperate Living.”
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Save the Tiger (1973) Queer Film C-
The writer Steve Shagen, an educated Jew, is in the Stone Age when it comes to a human being who has a different sexual preference than himself.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Queer Film (B) High Camp at a Midnight Screening.
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.
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Norman… Is That You? (1976) Queer Film (C)
What we do have, however, is Redd Foxx as the dad and thank God for that! The result is a laugh every other minute. Foxx does not have to work for it, he’s a natural and he basically saves the movie.
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Ode to Billy Joe (1976) Queer Film C+
Why did Billy Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahassee Bridge? The answer, according to director Max Baer, is because he slept with a man.
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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.
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Nijinsky (1980) Queer Film C-
“Nijinsky” asks the question: Why does a great artist go crazy? Ross and Wheeler, however, take a reductive approach and blame the woman.
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