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    Horny Wetlands Is Not a Film for the Easily Offended

    Horny Wetlands Is Not a Film for the Easily Offended

    In the cheeky, horny teenager sex film, Wetlands, Helen (Carla Juri, in a star making performance), claims, “If you think penises, sperm, and other bodily fluids are gross, you should…

    Sarandon Channels Joan Crawford in Disappointing The Last of Robin Hood

    Sarandon Channels Joan Crawford in Disappointing The Last of Robin Hood

    The Last of Robin Hood, written and directed by the queer filmmaking couple Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, is a curious misfire about Errol Flynn’s (Kevin Kline) last and illicit…

    Wistful Love Is Strange Depicts the Seasons of Life

    Wistful Love Is Strange Depicts the Seasons of Life

    Love Is Strange, director/co-writer Ira Sachs’ thoughtful, wistful film, concerns a couple—George (Alfred Molina) and Ben (John Lithgow)—who have been together 39 years. The men marry in the opening moments,…

    Man at Bath Provocatively Explores Intimacy and Coping

    Man at Bath Provocatively Explores Intimacy and Coping

    Christophe Honoré’s 2010 film Man at Bath, now out on DVD, is a provocative investigation of the disintegrating relationship between Emmanuel (beefy French porn star François Sagat) and Omar (Omar…

    Gay Man Shares How He Was Kidnapped for Christ

    Gay Man Shares How He Was Kidnapped for Christ

    Kate Logan’s probing documentary Kidnapped for Christ, airing this month on Showtime, was originally meant to be an evenhanded examination of Escuela Caribe, a Christian boarding school for troubled teens…

    Seductive Venus in Fur Plays with Reality and Perception

    Seductive Venus in Fur Plays with Reality and Perception

    Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur, opening Friday at the Landmark theaters in San Francisco and Berkeley, unfolds almost entirely inside a theater in Paris. An adaptation of David Ives’ play…

    Recommended Films for Frameline’s Final Week

    Recommended Films for Frameline’s Final Week

    (Editor’s Note: Please join us in congratulating Gary on his recent marriage to his partner Mike. We wish them many years of happiness together, with countless date nights along the…

    10 Frameline Highlights

    10 Frameline Highlights

    Showcasing more than 100 features, documentaries, and shorts, Frame­line, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, opens June 19. The opening night selection is the lo­cal area premiere of The…

    Be Sure to See “Test” and “Burning Blue”

    Be Sure to See “Test” and “Burning Blue”

    Set in 1985 San Francisco, the low-budget Test is a compelling drama about the onset of the AIDS crisis. Frankie (Scott Marlowe) is a dancer whose unease about the disease…

    Chinese Puzzle Is Messy and Fragmented, But That’s What Makes It Appealing

    Chinese Puzzle Is Messy and Fragmented,  But That’s What Makes It Appealing

    Chinese Puzzle is the third film—after L’auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls—starring Romain Duris as Xavier Rousseau and directed by Cédric Klapisch. This entry is set mostly in New York City,…