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How Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk After Decades in Development

By David Ehrenstein
Nov 27, 2008

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, 1992 to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his young-hustlers-in-love classic My Own Private Idaho, was picked to direct The Mayor of Castro Street. Already six years in development, this proposed adaptation...
Event Full

An all-star indie cast dramatizes the new face of AIDS death

By David Ehrenstein
Dec 4, 2003

Well into the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, films like Longtime Companion, An Early Frost and Philadelphia, as strange as it may be to imagine, have become period pieces. People aren't expiring quite so quickly anymore, thanks to new anti-viral drug "cocktails." Lives that in years past would have...
Homo Alone

Mac is back, and he's been a bad boy

By David Ehrenstein
Oct 9, 2003

Having already produced a book (Disco Bloodbath) and directed a "shockumentary" (Party Monster) about the "Club Kids" scene that rose brightly and fell murderously in New York in the late '80s/early '90s, filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) would seem to have said their piece...
Old Masters and Young Guns

Filmmaking in 2002 wasn't just for the boys

By David Ehrenstein
Jan 2, 2003

The 10 best pictures of 2002: 1. I'm Going Home: The most beautiful film ever made about aging by the world's oldest working filmmaker, the 94-year-old Manoel de Oliveira. 2. Far From Heaven: Todd Haynes' Douglas Sirk-inspired melodrama about race and gayness in the 1950s is more timely than ever,...
Indifferent Strokes

From the steamy streets of Medellín comes a shockingly cool melodrama

By David Ehrenstein
Oct 11, 2001

If you were to hear that Our Lady of the Assassins is one of the most genuinely shocking films you'll ever see, what would that suggest to you? Some new level of extreme violence and explicit sex, no doubt. But that's not what's at play in this eerily cool melodrama...

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