At Asian Movie Pulse, friend of the Gutter Earl Jackson writes about gay male fantasy in Vietnamese film: “The English title for Hot boy nổi loạn (Vũ Ngọc Đãng, 2011), ‘Lost in Paradise,’ reflects the protagonist’s fantasy of Ho Chi Minh City as an chance to live as […]
At The Movie Sleuth, the Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner writes about Kazuo Hara’s Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Japan, 1974). “In his autobiography Camera Obtrusa, Kazuo Hara speaks candidly about his obsession with pulling out and filming the most intimate parts of a person. He is not […]
The Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner joins Mike White and Kyler Fey to discuss Bertrand Mandico’s The Wild Boys. “A fever dream of transgression and transformation, the film follows five privileged boys who rape and murder their literature teacher—then are spirited away by a mysterious sea captain to the […]
Monét X Change has a case on Judge John Hodgman’s podcast! “Andy says he and his fiancé Monét X Change have an adorable meet-cute story. But Monét says that this meet-cute is meet-fake: it DIDN’T HAPPEN. Who’s right?” Listen here.
Guest Star and film scholar Earl Jackson continues his look at Kimi wa Koibito / You Are My Lover, a dizzyingly metafictional and genre-bending Nikkatsu film featuring an injured Japanese teen hearthrob’s return to the screen in a movie that references his injury and the incident that caused […]
BBC Archive has a segment on the making of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). “Film Night catches up with Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry and director Jim Sharman, who are hard at work on the movie adaptation of their cult stage musical, The Rocky Horror Show for 20th […]
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