A story of forbidden love, Maryam Keshavarz’s film concerns a love affair between young women played out in Tehran. The film, released after political turmoil in Iran with the elections of 2009, delves into a youth counterculture there. Schoolmates and lovers-to-be Atafeh (The Bold Type’s Nikohl Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy) join a gay male […]
Gay Cinema: Italian
October 1, 2021 by
In Italian movies of the late 1960s and early 1970s, homosexuality emerged out of the closet.
Directors: Known for One Film
September 30, 2021 by
Directors: Known for One Film Jean Eustache, The Mother and The Whore (1973); made 2 features, committed suicide Marco Ferreri, Dilinger est Morte (1969); La Grande Bouffe (1973); made many films. Share this:
Many Saints of Newark, The: Director Alan Taylor’s Challenges
September 24, 2021 by
Director Alan Taylor, ‘Many Saints of Newark’ on Tackling Newark Riots and Race The ‘Sopranos’ prequel director, executive producer Marcus Viscidi talk about portraying the 1967 riots as the film’s backdrop and the unexpected timeliness of a story more than a decade in the making. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ cast TAYLOR HILL / FILMMAGIC […]
Watermelon Man (1970): Melvin Van Peebles’ Pioneering Racial Satire
September 23, 2021 by
Melvin Van Peebles directed Watermelon Man, a pioneering racial comedy, starring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D’Urville Martin, Kay Kimberley, Mantan Moreland, and Erin Moran. Written by Herman Raucher, it tells the story of a bigoted 1960s white insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber, who wakes up one morning to find that he has become […]
