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24 November 2007
Bent (1997)
The most interesting question I had after watching Bent was this: was it really ‘better’ to be Jewish during the Holocaust than gay? It’s a rough question and of course the movie doesn’t even approach an answer let alone barely suggest the question, and anyway are there really different degrees of bad when talking about [...]
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15 November 2007
William Friedkin’s “Cruising” (1980)
A diorama of the gay New York scene on the cusp of breaking into the decade of AIDS and actionable gay rights? Not really. One of the greasiest, drab, dirty and – even – self-indulgent murder-mysteries of 1970s movie-making? (Though you can tell it’s on the cutting-edge like Billy Friedkin says in the accompanying documentary: [...]
