Resplendent with poetic images and disquieting performances, Alexander Sokurov’s Father and Son is certainly one of the exceptional films of this year’s ImageOut. Forgoing the standard conventions of narrative storytelling, Father and Son is cinema in its purest form. Sokurov brilliantly uses every frame of film to explore the relationship between a widowed father and […]
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Brando gives good queer
By today’s standards, Reflections In A Golden Eye seems repressed, even humorous at times. But major Hollywood figures such as Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, and director John Huston risked damage to their legendary careers to bring this story of repressed homosexuality and sexual dysfunction to movie theaters in 1967. And that deserves respect. Reflections stars […]
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Twelve years of sex, politics, and videotape
This year’s ImageOut has all of the rule-breaking, gender-bending, sweet love stories, and good old-fashioned skin its audiences have come to love and expect. It also offers a good stock of politically charged documentaries and features, some historical, some fun, some handling the hot-potato issues of marriage and parenting. Several City writers — Matt Ehlers, […]
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Telling the intergenerational tales
“There are thoughts that have the power to trap me. I write them down to be more honest about them and lessen their potential to do harm.” Artists can relate to these sentiments, whether their thoughts take the form of ink, paint, musical notes, or another medium. Those words also serve as an introduction to […]
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You gotta fight for your right to family
This year’s festival has a series called “Family Snapshot,” a group of features and documentaries that highlight issues of marriage and parenting in the LGBTQ community. These are two of the series’ standout documentaries. Paternal Instinct is an emotional and skilled examination of two Manhattan men and their quest to become parents. Two incredibly earnest […]
