Freebie and the Bean (1974) Queer Film (F)
Our heroes, James Caan and Alan Arkin, first encounter Morley in a bathtub. He’s preening and lisping, and you can see that he disgusts them.
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Female Trouble (1974) Queer Film C+ Solo The Sky’s the Limit at a Midnight Screening!
Waters’ favorite of all of his movies, with the incomparable Divine embracing ugliness, violence and spectacle in a bravura performance.
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A Very Natural Thing (1974) Queer Film D-
There is massive footage of NYC pride parades that lend nothing to the proceedings. Today, it comes across as a failed curiosity that gets a D for effort.
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Butley (1974) Queer Film B-
Adapted by Simon Gray from his stage play and directed by Harold Pinter, the movie is a testament to Alan Bates, who, having originated the role on stage, delivers a tour-de-force performance, simultaneously witty, pathetic, and tragic.
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The Great Gatsby (1974) Queer Film B+
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.
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Going Places (Les Valseuses) (1974) Queer Film (A)
The second scene is where the boys are horsing around and, wouldn’t you know it, they almost start pounding one another. Very sexy.
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) Queer Film B+
Michael Cimino’s directorial debut – he also wrote the screenplay – was an enormous critical and commercial success and paved the way for his Oscar-winning triumph The Deer Hunter four years later. Blending humor, melancholy, and violence with a nod to the American road movie, the film boasts great buddy-film chemistry between Eastwood and Bridges.
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The Eiger Sanction (1975) Cinema’s First Queer Canine (F)
When we first meet FAGGOT, he is pleasuring himself on Eastwood’s shoe. Who was the dog who played him? Was it nature or nurture?
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Chinatown (1974) Polanski’s Noir Masterpiece A+
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.
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Once is Not Enough (1975) Queer Film D-
An impressive performance by Brenda Vaccaro as a high-powered magazine editor – she received an Oscar nomination. Ironically, because the movie has a tiny modicum of taste, it has never developed the Midnight cult following that made the infinitely more dreadful Valley of the Dolls immortal.
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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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Barry Lyndon (1975) Queer Film (A)
In “Barry Lyndon” there is a moment where Ryan O’Neal finds two soldiers naked and holding hands in a pond as they confess their love for one another.
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In Celebration (1975) Queer Film C+
“In Celebration” is another filmed stage play that makes no attempts to hide its origin. However, the performers are so engaging that you stay with them. All of the actors have their moments, with Alan Bates making the most significant impression.
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Farewell My Lovely (1975) Queer Film A-
One of those rare instances where the remake is marginally better than the original, Farewell My Lovely not only keeps the original title of Raymond Chandler’s novel but is also more faithful to the book’s spirit.
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Queer Film. Lumet’s Masterpiece. A+
Pacino is magnificent. With Michael Corleone in The Godfather movies, “Dog Day Afternoon” is his defining role.
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Fox and His Friends (1975) Queer Film B+
A fascinating look at gay life in the seventies, it’s one of a dozen great movies Fassbinder wrote and directed in the decade before his untimely death.
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Grey Gardens (1975) Queer TV. Documentary Feature A+
After its release, the film’s high campness – a tragic story set in the faded milieu of New York high society – developed a significant gay following.
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The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Queer Film (A)
His life becomes a kind of performance art and Hurt is phenomenal. One of the great queer performances as one of the great Queers.
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Jeanne Dielman (1975) Queer Film A+
In “Jeanne Dielman”, a feminist masterpiece, the everyday details of a caring mother contrast with her life as a prostitute.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Queer Film A+
Weir, who showed, like Hitchcock, that horror can be visited upon us on the brightest and most beautiful of summer days.
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Drum (1976) Queer Film (F)
John Colicos’ DeMarigny is a loathsome excuse for a human being who harbors queer desires.
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The Ritz (1976) Queer Film C+
Part mob comedy and part drag review, this exhausting adaptation of Terence McNally’s hit play wears out its welcome in the first thirty minutes
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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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Car Wash (1976) Queer Film C+
You come to “Car Wash” for Antonio Vargas’ Lindy, who delivers razor-sharp shade to his homophobic coworker Duane (Bill Duke). You stay because a day at the Dee-Luxe Car Wash in Los Angeles is, despite the slurs, occasionally fun.
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Next Stop Greenwich Village (1976) Queer Film A-
Lenny Baker delivers a marvelous, lived‑in performance, radiating zest for life. Tragically, Baker’s career was cut short; he died of thyroid cancer at just 37 in 1982, never appearing in another film.
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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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Carrie (1976) Queer Film A+
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.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Queer Film Focus (F)
After two hours of heterosexual escapades—casual hookups, fleeting romances, and Theresa’s own search for identity—the story reserves its harshest judgment not for the straight milieu it has been dissecting, but for queer desire.
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Valentino (1977) Queer Film (F)
Russell’s worst film, it cannot even be enjoyed as camp. The audience either walked out or slept their way through the movie.
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The Choirboys (1977) Queer Film (F)
Blaney (Michael MacKezie Willis) is a young gay man who is cruising MacArthur Park in LA. The cops are there as well. When Blaney opens the police van’s door, he mistakenly thinks that Officer Lyles (Don Stroud) is waiting for him. Lyles, a Vietnam veteran, is in the middle of a PTSD flashback and shoots him in the face. The death of “the fag” gets a big cheer and a big laugh from the audience.
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