Queer Cinema(s)

Children and parents. In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they’re smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen’s Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Matt tell their parents they are engaged: Matt’s parents, Midwestern paramilitary fanatics, take it as a sign to gather their group to invade New York. Jenny’s father is the local Mob boss who employs Stephen and Danny as enforcers. He’s unhappy that Jenny is marrying someone who is neither Sicilian nor Catholic. Stephen’s parents know he’s gay, they just don’t know what his job is. Here come the parents; will the children survive? All roads lead to the engagement party.Read More »

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If you have ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a hormonal 14-year-old boy with homosexual leanings, this puts you there. Loosely composed of tender narrative episodes and hallucinatory waking dreamscapes, it follows Logan, an androgynous California loner whose head is perpetually in the clouds. Much of the time our heads are in the clouds with him, following his fevered masturbatory fantasies, his obsession with mountain lions and his tentative friendship with an older boy named Rodeo. An element of jeopardy creeps in when Logan tries to engage Rodeo on a sexual level by calling him for phone sex in the guise of a woman.Read More »

A refugee arrives at the home of an upper-class family in London and seduces each member of the family. When he suddenly is gone, he leaves behind a void that the rest try to fill in different ways.Read More »

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A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.Read More »

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Chabela, María, and Toña live in a Mixtecan town where they have to confront their own sexuality.Read More »

“…a queer, feminist road movie, both hilarious and militant, which urges us to tackle life head-on without fear of the future…” Cineuropa

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Travelling across an Andalusia reminiscent of the Wild West (the film’s 16mm format being incredibly helpful in this respect), our antiheroes and antiheroines follow their instincts and decide to take on the present with the delightful carefreeness and arrogance of youth, without worrying about the future. Music, dance and traditions linked to a land where Flamenco reigns supreme infuse each and every frame, reminding us that emotions matter more than rationality. A tribute to Gonzalo García Pelayo’s cult Spanish movie Corridas de alegría, On the Go is a road movie where nothing is planned and everything appears to be incredibly easy…Read More »

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The act is going on in the year of 1939. The 18 year old Thomas has other things to worry about than what is going on around the world. He’s from a bourgeois home, but when he meets the Thamms; the neighboring-family, his world is turned upside down. That is an excentric family who doesn’t take things so serious and he is introduced in all forms of sex.Read More »

Another case rather isolated in the background of Italian cinema during 60s is Paolo Spinola, who made the best debut as a director in 1964: “La fuga”, a movie which Spinola shot aged 35 after a long activity as assistant director and scriptwriter. It’s the first Italian movie explicitly and fully based on a psychoanalytic plot. “La fuga” (which is also the best script written by Sergio Amidei during 60s and the best acting performance by Giovanna Ralli, who won the Nastro d’Argento prize as the best leading actress of that year thanks to this movie) suggests an attentive and meticulous investigation of a neurosis suffered by Piera, a typical woman from the Italian affluent society, wife of a successful engineer and living a ménage seemingly with no worries.Read More »

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What can be said about Funeral Parade of Roses other than that it is the personification of a fever dream, and the definition of a “mindfuck.” Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 cult film is nothing but a nightmare that stares down at you with glaring eyes, and never allows you the opportunity for a rest even after it’s over because it will stay with you and haunt you for days. The images are so stark and hellish that one begins to believe that they are in the pits of hell, either that, or inside the mind of a mad genius. Matsumoto’s controversial film was a re-telling of the classic Oedipus Rex tale by Sophocles, and was given a brief release in the US in 1970.Read More »