On Mishima, and Feeling That One Exists
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is a singular portrait of an artist's life lived so fiercely as to have left an indelible mark on an alienated world seeking affirmation for its own existence.
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‘Boy Erased’ Is an Easy-to-Swallow Capsule of Sexual Repression
Director Joel Edgerton's well-intentioned drama about gay conversion therapy fails to deliver any new insight or even a good cry.
All the Right Intentions Can’t Bring ‘Boy Erased’ to Life
The tragedy of conversion therapy is confronted in Boy Erased, a well-meaning but perfectly conventional message movie.
Gay Conversion Therapy Onscreen: Joel Edgerton On ‘Boy Erased’
Actor-director Joel Edgerton details the sensitive process of making Boy Erased and how the film could act as a lifeline for families who have experienced gay conversion therapy.
The Limits of Hospitality in Fred Rogers Documentary, ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’
Our work on this Earth, Rogers insists, is Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). So why does Morgan Neville shut down the possibility of queerness in his documentary?
In Thrall to Genius: Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance
By serving as a midwife to artists, the "Dean of the Harlem Renaissance" Alain Locke would help foster an art that would stand as a midwife to a better future.
Graphic Fiction ‘The Smell of Starving Boys’ Inverts Images and Expectations
Loo Hui Phang emphasizes the nature of image-making from the first panel: an upside landscape as viewed through the inverting lens of the protagonist's camera.
‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ Is Better As a Comic
Julie Mahor's hand is deft in so many ways, producing a visually and emotionally complex tale of coming-of-age love uniquely grounded in the comics form.
Authors of Our Identity: Filmmaker Eliza Hittman on ‘Beach Rats’
Beach Rats captures the tumultuous divide between one's mind and feelings, as well as the duality of one's nature.
The Price He Was Willing to Pay: ‘Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years’
By picking up his subject after the most infamous event in Wilde's life, Frankel is able to rebuild the narrative of Wilde's post-prison life from the detritus of his public undoing.
The Gang’s All Queer Challenges Simplistic Assumptions About Gang Members
With The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil complicates the popular narratives surrounding gang members and the hypermasculine, hyper-heterosexual lives they lead.