writer-director “Girls Will Be Girls” “Straight-Jacket”
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The Betsy 1978
There are pleasures to be had here. Laurence Olivier in full 1970’s cash-grab mode, Tommy Lee Jones at his hot bod peak. And that unmistakeable 70’s high-class trash sheen that permeated a corner of the era's film and TV.
Yet to work as camp such films must be harmless. The Betsy features one of the bleakest and most toxic depictions of gay men I’ve ever seen. The only way we know two characters are even gay is that they hand…
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Harakiri 1962
As a gay man I have trouble taking gangster and samurai films seriously because of the hyper-masculine camp factor. On its own terms this film is impeccable; its world is just so goddamn silly. A major plot point turns on men's hairstyles, specifically the unrecoverable humiliation of another man basically mussing your do. As I'm sure was true in 1600! But likely even by 1962 -- and absolutely today -- it all plays as deeply silly camp to anyone who's sucked a dick
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Girls Will Be Girls 2003
I don’t know if it’s any good or not but I made it so five stars!
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Tell Them You Love Me 2023
This woman saw Rachel Dolezal and said “hold my red wine”
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