2008
Outrate Online Short Film
Festival FIRST PRIZE WINNER: and Everything Nice, directed
by Craig Boreham and Peta Jane Lenehan Synopsis:
The curiosity of a schoolgirl leads her to skip a day at school to
observe a classmate as she wanders through the city.
Judges Comments: The silent delicacy of this film
outshone the competition, to be sure. I find myself haunted by it,
which is a good thing ... Slick and stylish ... A simple story well
told, and uses lack of dialogue well ... conveyed a narrative
without pretentiousness.
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Outrate Online Short Film Festival Here
Spilt Milk - Mixed Opinions on
the year's Big Gay Movie
I found Milk's Latin paramour desperately needy and
relentlessly annoying. Hectoring Harvey with whiny phone calls and
poorly penned notes. It was enough to make one wonder if Milk egged
White on, just to get a moment's peace ... [more]
The Celluloid Broken Record
If gay characters in prestige movies are marked for big screen death
then what to make of the Best Actor contests of 1998 and 2000 (for
example) where 7 out of 10 nominated roles (two were gay) ended in
death? In 2000, a particulary dead year, the only Best Actor left
standing was Tom Hanks, yearning for his beloved basketball at the
lonely end of Cast Away
... [more]
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
righthere!
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]
