Poison
Pride on Metrograph At Home
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1h 25m
Directed by Todd Haynes | 85 mins | 1991
With his first feature, Haynes took his influence from the patron saint of all queer outlaw art, the French writer and director Jean Genet. The result, a landmark of New Queer Cinema, was a trio of intercut, stylistically distinct stories drawn together by their conceptual rigor and openly gay themes.
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Blue
Leaving October 1
Directed by Derek Jarman | 79 mins | 1993
Over an unceasing, monochromatic blue frame, voices read a poetic text in which Jarman muses on his physical and mental deterioration as well as the endless implications of the color blue. Jarman, dying of AIDS, would be gone within a y... -
Sebastiane
Leaving October 1
Directed by Derek Jarman | 90 mins | 1976
Jarman’s feature debut—co-directed with Humfress—makes blatant the latent homoeroticism in artistic renderings of the biblical story of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, reveling in the male form while recounting a tale of repressed desir...
