Tuesday, December 27, 2011
COMPENDIUM
Today's favorite gay film was
This documentary was based on Vito Russo's book of the same name. It shows the history of gay film through clips and narration.
One of Edison's first sound movie demonstrations shows a violinist and two guys from the workshop dancing together. And they are serious.
The film shows the early openly gay scenes, the evolution of the movie sissy, the turning to gay villains, the requisite gay death and so on. As society changed, Hollywood, always behind, changed as well.
The film cannot show us the expansion of gay film to include very high concept films with gay heroes and the climate if acceptance that has grown up since 1995. But some of the more negative shit still remains. Now, we have organizations who catch and point out the nasty stuff but it still appears just as the faggot epithet exists in an otherwise evolving culture.
Worth seeing even if outdated. It is time for a CC II.
A 3 out of Netfix5.
Labels: gay films
