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Rebels Without A Clue
- by Camille Paglia
Brokeback Mountain
was certainly pioneering in the persuasive way it made a sexual
relationship between men emotionally credible to a straight audience.
Director Ang Lee rightly won the Oscar for that. But I don't
think Brokeback Mountain is a great film. It's
far too long,
soggy, and monotonous, and its bleak portrait of small-town and
working-class life is (in my indignant view) condescending and
offensively elitist. Without the picture-postcard mountain photography
and wonderfully evocative score (which won an Oscar), this would be a
small movie on the early '90s indy level ... [more]
Genet
Meets Fassbinder: Sexual Disorientation(s) in Querelle
When
the titular hero of Jean Genet's "Querelle de Brest" allows himself to
be fucked for the first time by Nono, the owner of the near-legendary
brothel La Feria, he intends it as a sort of self-punishment, a
metaphorical death that will allow him to be purged of guilt for his
recent murder of a friend and fellow opium smuggler ... [more]
Brokeback Mountain: The Sequel
Planning
a Brokeback Mountain Sequel? We have the script
right here!
The Homosexual
Warlock
To watch a man discard his innocence for a
few bucks is a rakish, Mephistophelean delight. [more]
Mountain
out of a Mole Hill
The grand queer-romantic tragedy of the past
year’s films was King Kong, while B Ruby Rich’s
“great cinema” with the very expensive souvenir shirts is the fine but
greatly over-rated Brokeback Mountain. [more]
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