2 minute gay movie
On March 19, the Lightbox Film Center is projecting two programs of restored short films by the late, great, gay underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell, back-to-back. The shorts, which range from 2 minutes to nearly an hour in length, provide a nifty showcase for this cheeky, underground filmmaker who shot grainy, black-and-white, no-budget movies with a stock corporation of friends, including George Kuchar, who was first his teacher and later his lover. (McDowell died from AIDS in 1987.)
Program 1, which screens at 5:00 pm, features five shorts, all made in 1972. “Ainslie Trailer” is an amusing theater advertisement that introduces Ainslie Pryor, who appears in several of McDowell’s shorts, including “Wieners and Buns, The Musical,” a delightfully absurdist short about a married couple (Pryor and Kuchar) who are both secretly in love with the same man (McDowell), who harbors a terrible confidential himself.
Two other shorts in Program 1 are “Truth for Ruth,” in which McDowell recounts an thought he had for a film about a fresh woman who wakes up on the beach and is searching for something — or someone. The 3-minute short comes to an unexpected “climax.” McDowell’s short, “Ronnie,” is a por
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An exhausted mom looks at her laptop while kids participate in the backgroundImage via Canva
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Film review of director Andrew Haigh’s production about a male lover screenwriter who enters into a association with a mysterious man as he finds out his supposedly dead parents are alive.
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Synopsis
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a reserved gay writer living in London, traumatised by the death of his parents in a vehicle accident when he was a boy.
One night, after a fire alarm, his younger neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) drunkenly makes a go by, which Adam awkwardly rebuffs.
Slowly, these two lonely men grow closer and establish a relationship that will have profound, tragic consequences.
Review by Jason Day
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It’s not often I write about movies in the first person, but then it’s not often a movie moves me to the point where I have the sensation of myself on the big screen.
I’m passionate about clip as anyone who knows me knows, anything from silent cinema, MGM romances, zombie horrors and disaster dramas, yes even the awful ones, get
Two Minutes After Midnight
2Coralknight
Awful case of British camp
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7Vanyel
Amusing
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tevanson
Great sight-gags and rewriting make for amusing but predictable film
Directed by a Briton and filmed in Australia under the auspices of the UCLA Film, Theater and Television Educational facility,