The fourth film in what we’ll now retrospectively call Gay Week, The Times Of Harvey Milk stands a great deal taller than Gus Van Sant’s more recent offering Milk. It’s a documentary on the same subject matter, and while the beginning is a little muddled, it manages to illuminate the affair far better than its … Continue reading
Continuing a triple bill of gay cinema this week, Brokeback Mountain is the tale of two cowboys who fall in love but, dammit, society wants to keep them apart. Oddly the film isn’t really comfortable portraying gay love, and it only really finds its feet when the whole homosexuality business becomes little more than a … Continue reading
Hedwig is a German transexual and singer songwriter, her ex-lover has achieved superstar status, but refuses to acknowledge her penmanship in the songs he sings, so she follows his tour with her own, singing in dinners filled with peeps who really aren’t the best audience for Hedwig’s confrontational drag queen performance. Thankfully there’s no mawkish … Continue reading
Milk is a fairly straightforward biography of Harvey Milk, an openly gay candidate for government office. Dramatically, the film feels a little flat, while the central issue for the film, that of the fight between homosexuality and the more fundamental Christians who stand against it, isn’t really explored in any depth. While Milk may have … Continue reading
