Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "New Queer Cinema"

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Far from Heaven ***** (2002, Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert) – Classic Movie Review 1532

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]

Aug, 10

Safe *** (1995, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1530

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]

Aug, 09

The Living End **** (1992, Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 1527

Writer-director Gregg Araki’s 1992 drama takes its stance by describing itself as ‘an irresponsible film’. The Living End is a visually startling, highly emotionally charged micro-budget ($22,000) look at the desperate lives of an HIV-positive young […]

Aug, 09

Swoon *** (1992, Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester) – Classic Movie Review 1,526

Writer/ director Tom Kalin revisits the scene of the crime in the Richard Loeb-Nathan Leopold Jr ‘murder-for-kicks’ case in 1924 Chicago for his 1992 real-life crime thriller film Swoon. For his 1992 real-life crime thriller […]

Aug, 09

Totally F***ed Up **** (1993, James Duval) – Classic Movie Review 1039

Gregg Araki’s 1993 movie Totally F***ed Up focuses on a gang of half a dozen gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los Angeles who are totally fed up and f***ed up outcasts. Writer-cinematographer-editor-producer-director Gregg Araki’s […]

Apr, 02

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