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Concerned Citizen [Ezrah Mudag] *** (2022, Shlomi Bertonov, Ariel Wolf, Lena Fraifeld) – Classic Movie Review 12,444

The thoughtful and intelligent 2022 Israeli drama film Concerned Citizen stars Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf as a South Tel Aviv gay couple, whose contented, comfortable lives are thrown into meltdown and chaos by one […]

Mar, 08

Fox and His Friends [Faustrecht der Freiheit] **** (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Kurt Raab, Adrian Hoven, Harry Baer) – Classic Movie Review 6187

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s bitter and revealing 1975 German film looks at how one minority group exploits others in an unpleasant tale of the survival of the fittest. Fassbinder himself plays Franz Biberkopf, aka Fox, a gay working […]

Nov, 04

The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156

Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]

Mar, 15

Nighthawks *** (1978, Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope) – Classic Movie Review 4969

Writer-producer-directors Ron Peck and Paul Hallam’s brave, significant and ground-breaking 1978 British film is a well-meaning but depressing slice of Seventies life about a gay schoolteacher (Ken Robertson) who lives a double life. He is […]

Jan, 30

Bedrooms and Hallways *** (1998, Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Jennifer Ehle, Julie Graham, Simon Callow, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 4388

A gay man called Leo (Kevin McKidd) joins group help sessions, and confesses his feelings for another man (James Purefoy). They enjoy a thing, but then Purefoy’s school old flame (Jennifer Ehle) turns up. Director […]

Sep, 21

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