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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s infamous, highly controversial, problematic final film, based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, was made shortly before his murder on 2 November 1975, aged 53, and released […]
Andy Warhol, Paul Morrisey and their Factory gay lonesome cowboys ride again in heated trashy flesh from the good old bad old days of 1968. Now an amiable-seeming period curio, it hasn’t worn well, but […]
Heat, the 1972 final part of director Paul Morrissey’s trilogy for producer Andy Warhol, provides a great role for a brilliant Sylvia Miles as a fading actress who falls for a breathtakingly handsome former child […]
Paul Morrissey follows up Flesh (1968) for producer Andy Warhol with the 1970 film Trash, a second fresh and funny slice of lowlives drama, again starring Joe Dallesandro as a good-looking lowlife. Writer-cinematographer-director Paul Morrissey […]
Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]
Todd Haynes revisits, sort of, the scene of his 2002 triumph, Far from Heaven, by filming Patricia Highsmith’s lesbian love story Carol. Haynes casts Cate Blanchett, one of the stars of his last movie I’m […]
Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]