Thinking about challenges and opportunities to do with personal identity, collective action and uses of the past at this year’s London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (plus a link to podcast about the 2018 fest).
Sorry Angel review for Sight & Sound
Gay identity, queer family, laughter and grief play out in Christophe Honoré’s semi-autobiographical feature set in 1990s Paris.
Guardian article on the return of the Dude
Jeff Bridges trailed the return of his character from The Big Lebowski ahead of this year’s Superbowl. It’s like Lenin said…
Coen brothers interview for Sight & Sound
A conversation with Joel and Ethan Coen about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, industrial upheaval, representation in genre and the death of the squib.
John Waters interview for the Guardian
An interview with the Pope of Trash about his live show, the changing world, trans issues, the Manson family and the uses and limits of humour.
The Eyes of Orson Welles review for Sight and Sound
A review of Mark Cousins’s terrific documentary about Orson Welles’s drawings and paintings.
Tranny Fag review for Sight and Sound
A review of the documentary about trans Brazilian performers Linn da Quebrada and Jup do Bairro.
Orson Welles book review for Sight & Sound
A review of a collection of essays on ‘avoided, overlooked, underappreciated, or misunderstood’ aspects of Welles, from political activism to theatre-film hybrids.
120 BPM review for Sight & Sound
Enthralling, devastating, revelatory, galvanising, fragile: on Robin Campillo’s superbly queer feature about ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s.
Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin for Sight & Sound
An interview about how Iannucci’s new film raises the satirical stakes and the challenges of engaging with a new politics that is less about winning an agreed game than defining reality.
