Directed by James Bidgood • 1971 • United States
Starring Don Brooks, Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam
Working over the course of eight years in his downtown Manhattan loft, artist James Bidgood crafted this luxuriant queer fantasia, a crimson-saturated idyll of camp excess and erotic spectacle. Whiling away the hours between visits from his john, a handsome, brooding male prostitute (Bobby Kendall) loses himself in daydreams of incredible beauty, fantastic colors, and elaborate costumes as he imagines himself as everything from a triumphant matador vanquishing a bull (who is really a leather-clad biker) and an innocent wood nymph gamboling in the forest to a diaphanously dressed harem boy in the tent of a sheik.
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1972 • Belgium
In Chantal Akerman's early short film LA CHAMBRE, we see the furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life, with Akerman herself staring back at us. This breakthrough formal experiment is the first film ...
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
Starring Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese
In one of his most personal works, Martin Scorsese sits down with his parents, Catherine and Charles, in their New York apartment for a free-flowing discussion that touches on family history, the imm...
Directed by Blake Edwards • 1986 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman
This independently produced comedic drama from Blake Edwards is a true family affair. Shot in Edwards and Julie Andrews’s gorgeous beachside Malibu home and featuring a cast made up largely of f...
