The achingly romantic new gay film by Ferzan Ozpetek (Steam: The Turkish Bath, His Secret Life, Facing Windows) is now available on Netflix and it’s a stunner. The title comes from the marquee of a movie theater in Rome in…
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When I first moved to Provincetown in the early 70s I only knew a few people. One of them dragged me to a nighttime party at a house on the West End of town- off the beaten track and surrounded…
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The series Paris Police 1900 on MHz Choice was one of the most exciting shows I’d seen in some time. Every episode a nail-biter, beautifully acted, with expert attention to period detail in costumes and sets. Set in the Belle…
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In a month that includes Thanksgiving I am always grateful for more crackpot Blu-ray treats. This month we have releases from the sublime to the subversive. From restorations of great films like Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist; Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last…
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This notorious trilogy is The Lord of the Rings for perverts. And part of the 60s exploitation films called “roughies,” which were black and white melodramas that reveled in sex and violence. Films like Joseph P. Mawra’s Olga’s House of…
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I cannot emphasize enough how great this disturbing 2006 thriller, based on a novel by the late/great splatterpunk author Jack Ketchum, is. Set in Sparta, New Jersey it’s about the psychotic Ray Pye (played with fiendish glee by Marc Senter)…
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I can remember it like it was yesterday. My mother was in the basement ironing. And I was down on my knees, begging shamelessly. This had gone for nearly an hour. She wasn’t even acknowledging me by then. Periodically she…
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With Halloween looming many Blu-ray companies trot out horror-themed fare and we’re lucky this month to see Freaks out from Criterion, plus the great Spanish shocker Tombs of the Blind Dead, Mario Bava’s gothic classic Black Sabbath, not to mention…
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I always thought author Thomas Hardy was one gloomy Gus, but I do agree with a quote attributed to him: “Fear is the mother of foresight.” Because there are some movies I have never had the guts to see. Sometimes…
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It’s ironic that the talk this weekend is the opening of The Exorcist: Believer, when the really brilliant, nightmarish film about demonic possession is also premiering- When Evil Lurks by the Argentine director Demian Rugna. Demian Rugna’s previous film- Terrified–…
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