High and Low Commentary on Movies, Music, Art and More.
Sinners breaks the All About Eve - Titanic - La La Land 14 nomination record to land an astonishing 16 nominations helped by the addition of a new CASTING category this year - but it would have made history even without it!
Director James Whale’s masterpiece is as close to Susan Sontag’s definition of high camp as the movies can deliver.
"Gilda": Rita Hayworth's star-making performance, directed by Charles Vidor, with cinematography by Rudolph Mate and Jack Cole's choreography.
His life becomes a kind of performance art and Hurt is phenomenal. One of the great queer performances as one of the great Queers.
"Vertigo" is anchored by the unforgettable performances of Stewart and Novak, Hitchcock’s masterful direction and Bernard Herrmann’s haunting score.
In Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, HAL 9000 is the psychotic gay computer abord Discovery One. HAL is in love with Dave and quickly dispatches with copilot Frank.
Bogart is superb playing a queer-coded male lead. He’s emotionally volatile, unable to be in a stable heterosexual relationship, deeply suspicious of intimacy and terrified of being "found out".
