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Released in 1974, The Night Porter is an English-language erotic drama by the Italian director Liliana Cavani, and starring the British actors Dirk Bogarde & Charlotte Rampling. Bogarde plays a lonely night porter, Max, living and working at a hotel in Vienna in the late 1950s. Everything seems rather unremarkable about the day Max isContinue reading ““The Night Porter”: Motives of Exploitation, Representation, & the Theater of Fascism”

Blue by Derek Jarman is a British experimental film from 1993. It stands as Jarman’s last testament as an artist, filmmaker, and human being as his life would be taken by HIV/AIDS mere months after the completion of the project. Having already lost most of his eye-sight to the virus, Jarman began production on BlueContinue reading ““Blue””

Paris Is Burning is a documentary by Jennie Livingston from 1990 that focuses on the gay, queer, trans, and drag performers that would populate balls and pageant competitions in the streets of New York City as the subjects. The documentary, though praised for it’s pageantry and it’s “lightning in a bottle” quality it holds asContinue reading ““Paris Is Burning””

Tangerine is a 2015 American independent film directed by Sean Baker and starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as Sin-Dee and Alexandra respectively; two transgender sex workers searching Los Angeles for Sin-Dee’s cheating pimp boyfriend on Christmas Eve. The casting and directing of this film is especially significant, however, in the particularity of explainingContinue reading ““Tangerine”: Empowerment & Exploitation”

I remember watching The Celluloid Closet pirated in quarters off YouTube back in 2015 when I was a junior or senior in high school, having just come out as gay myself as well as a lifelong classic film geek. When I watched the documentary in high school, I remember experiencing a kind of thrill toContinue reading ““The Celluloid Closet””

Hello! My name is Grayson Richmond & I am a Screen Actor in senior standing. As a queer film nerd, I’m very excited for the content we will consume in this class and the discussions we will have about it!