Talk to him: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Chaplin Award reflects on his subversively queer cinema, his love for actors, and making films in times of authoritarianism
Bang bang: Fassbinder’s debut, Love Is Colder Than Death, is a genuinely fluid depiction of identity, sex, and love that reflected the director’s own matter-of-fact bisexuality
What’s your pleasure? Clive Barker’s Hellraiser couples S&M with a heavy dose of homoeroticism that makes it an unapologetic violation of heteronormative standards
Over the rainbow: The Harvey Girls offers a quintessential example of the complex Judy Garland persona, embodying her movie star effervescence yet pointing toward darker roads
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