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With a screenplay based by John Herbert on his own hit Los Angeles, Broadway and London West End play, director Harvey Hart’s tough 1971 Canadian movie is a powerful, disturbing and mostly depressing experience. The […]
William Friedkin’s infamous 1980 thriller film Cruising stars Al Pacino as New York City police detective Steve Burns, who goes undercover among the gay leather set to catch an S&M serial killer preying on gay […]
William Friedkin’s 1970 movie The Boys in the Band was a very significant game-changer and remains an important document of its time. It is one of the earliest US films to revolve around gay characters […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s shameful 1969 effort is a ghastly, dated and embarrassing film version of Charles Dyer’s 1966 two-hander stage play. Two of the acting profession’s most celebrated heterosexual movie stars, Richard Burton and Rex […]
Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]
The provocative 1970 British gothic black comedy film Entertaining Mr Sloane brings Joe Orton’s wonderfully entertaining stage play to the screen with incisive performances but its wit slightly blunted. Director Douglas Hickox’s provocative 1970 British […]
Director Julian Jarrold’s conscientious, sumptuous and costly ($20 million) remake for the cinema of Brideshead Revisited in 2008 of the much loved 1981 classic of British TV drama Brideshead Revisited is an effective adaptation of […]