With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson)
Charlie Kaufman, the writer behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, teams up with animator Duke Johnson to create a complex emotional drama starring lifelike puppets. The premise is riddled with existential dread of modern-day life, presented uniquely through Kaufman’s idiosyncratic point-of-view. For protagonist and self-help author Michael Stone (voiced soulfully by David Thewlis), everyone around him has the same voice (thanks to...
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson)
Charlie Kaufman, the writer behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, teams up with animator Duke Johnson to create a complex emotional drama starring lifelike puppets. The premise is riddled with existential dread of modern-day life, presented uniquely through Kaufman’s idiosyncratic point-of-view. For protagonist and self-help author Michael Stone (voiced soulfully by David Thewlis), everyone around him has the same voice (thanks to...
- 12/23/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
With San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival underway and La's Outfest weeks away, it's that time of the year when the festival circuit gets a little queerer. And so, for those cinephiles looking to celebrate Lgbt Pride Month at home, here are ten queer cinema essentials you can stream now. Read More: John Cameron Mitchell Gets Outfest Achievement Award "Un Chant d'Amour" (Fandor) It seems fitting to begin with Jean Genet's shattering 1950 short about gay male desire slithering behind prison walls. Shot in illusory black-and-white, the film's highly stylized, dislocating sex scenes are as shocking today as they were then. Genet forayed into theater and literature many times throughout his life as a libertine in France -- from his play "The Maids" to the bewitching novel "Our Lady of the Flowers" -- but this song of love was his only cinematic effort, and one he would come to loathe as...
- 6/26/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
When Lgbt people leave the safety of the city in films, it usually spells bad news – and Stranger by the Lake and Tom at the Farm don't buck the trend
Gay people and the city have been a good match since Sodom and Gomorrah. From the molly houses of 18th-century London to 1970s San Francisco via prewar Berlin, the urban environment has always been the natural habitat of queer culture – a place where Lgbt people can set their own rules, form their own families, be anonymous when they want to and find company when they fancy it. The countryside, on the other hand, is the place they escape from – a realm of social conformity with limited opportunities for culture, sex or socialising, and perhaps even a site of danger.
That's the stereotype, anyway, both in reality and on screen. Innumerable movies with claims to gay-classic status are inseparable from their urban settings: London has Victim,...
Gay people and the city have been a good match since Sodom and Gomorrah. From the molly houses of 18th-century London to 1970s San Francisco via prewar Berlin, the urban environment has always been the natural habitat of queer culture – a place where Lgbt people can set their own rules, form their own families, be anonymous when they want to and find company when they fancy it. The countryside, on the other hand, is the place they escape from – a realm of social conformity with limited opportunities for culture, sex or socialising, and perhaps even a site of danger.
That's the stereotype, anyway, both in reality and on screen. Innumerable movies with claims to gay-classic status are inseparable from their urban settings: London has Victim,...
- 2/21/2014
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
After spending last week at the BFI's festival of short gay films, Jack Cullen feels qualified to list the top 10 cliches of the genre – from the ironing mother to the very long shower scene …
Artistic shots of trees
Nothing conveys the gay psyche like a bleak sky glimpsed through a dizzying rush of distant poplars – the type gay boys stare at longingly from the homophobic inferno of the school bus. It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window. The short film Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes has plenty of this.
The ironing mother
She is angsty, sombre, frayed, yet just a tiny bit fabulous. Think of a fat Joan Rivers cast in a John Osborne play. She's probably 30th in line to being the next Sheila Hancock. She needs to be watching...
Artistic shots of trees
Nothing conveys the gay psyche like a bleak sky glimpsed through a dizzying rush of distant poplars – the type gay boys stare at longingly from the homophobic inferno of the school bus. It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window. The short film Sunshine Sparkling in My Eyes has plenty of this.
The ironing mother
She is angsty, sombre, frayed, yet just a tiny bit fabulous. Think of a fat Joan Rivers cast in a John Osborne play. She's probably 30th in line to being the next Sheila Hancock. She needs to be watching...
- 3/26/2013
- by Jack Cullen
- The Guardian - Film News
Landmark and controversial Gay movies at Lacma On March 23, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will be screening two film programs inspired by its current Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit: "America’s Most Wanted: The Queer Underground," featuring Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures, Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour, and Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising; and "Temptations: My Hustler and Mala Noche," featuring Andy Warhol's My Hustler and Gus Van Sant's Mala Noche. The screenings are free of charge. The 26-minute Un Chant d'Amour is Genet's sole film; considering its theme and stylistic approach, the film, as to be expected, faced censorship issues at the time of its first screening in the U.S. in 1966 (sixteen years after it was made). The Lacma release (see below more information on each film) describes Un Chant d'Amour (aka "A Song of Love") as "an iconic landmark of queer cinema for its lyrical,...
- 3/14/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jonas Mekas, 'the godfather of avant-garde cinema', talks to Sean O'Hagan about working with Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Jackie Kennedy
Jonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense memory of sitting on his father's bed, aged six, singing a strange little song about daily life in the village in which he grew up in Lithuania.
"It was late in the evening and suddenly I was recounting everything I had seen on the farm that day. It was a very simple, very realistic recitation of small, everyday events. Nothing was invented. I remember the reception from my mother and father, which was very good. But I also remember the feeling of intensity I experienced just from describing the actual details of what my father did every day. I have been trying to find that intensity in my work ever since."
We are sitting at a table in...
Jonas Mekas, who will be 90 on Christmas Eve, has an intense memory of sitting on his father's bed, aged six, singing a strange little song about daily life in the village in which he grew up in Lithuania.
"It was late in the evening and suddenly I was recounting everything I had seen on the farm that day. It was a very simple, very realistic recitation of small, everyday events. Nothing was invented. I remember the reception from my mother and father, which was very good. But I also remember the feeling of intensity I experienced just from describing the actual details of what my father did every day. I have been trying to find that intensity in my work ever since."
We are sitting at a table in...
- 12/2/2012
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Ethan Peck is not just the grandson of Hollywood royalty, he's set to play a prince in the new futuristic pilot The Selection, about a woman who is chosen by lottery to marry the prince of a kingdom on the brink, drawing some comparisons to The Hunger Games. I most remember Peck for 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family, in which he played the bad boy.
I don't understand how this Grindr love story ended up on Salon. Frankly, I don't know how the author ended up on Grindr. Dude: If you're the type of guy that can't smile politely at last week's trick when you bump into him at 7-11, you probably aren't the hook up type, quit trying, you're clogging up the system. So you saw his penis online or even in person – why so shy later? I've never understood that issue.
The Independent Spirit Awards were Saturday,...
I don't understand how this Grindr love story ended up on Salon. Frankly, I don't know how the author ended up on Grindr. Dude: If you're the type of guy that can't smile politely at last week's trick when you bump into him at 7-11, you probably aren't the hook up type, quit trying, you're clogging up the system. So you saw his penis online or even in person – why so shy later? I've never understood that issue.
The Independent Spirit Awards were Saturday,...
- 2/26/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Charismatic nightclub owner and subversive film director
In the years after the second world war, St-Germain-des-Prés, on the left bank of Paris, was a melting pot of intellectual and artistic life. One of the favourite hangouts for the existential and beatnik crowds was the basement nightclub La Rose Rouge in the Rue de Rennes. It was there that Juliette Gréco made her cabaret debut, and Les Frères Jacques performed their mixture of song, humour, dance and mime. Among the audiences were André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian and Miles Davis. Presiding over them all was the club's charismatic owner, Nikos Papatakis, who has died aged 92. He was also renowned for his distinctive contribution to the world of film.
Known as Nico to his friends, Papatakis, a self-styled subversive, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Greek parents. Aged 17, he joined Haile Selassie's army to fight against the...
In the years after the second world war, St-Germain-des-Prés, on the left bank of Paris, was a melting pot of intellectual and artistic life. One of the favourite hangouts for the existential and beatnik crowds was the basement nightclub La Rose Rouge in the Rue de Rennes. It was there that Juliette Gréco made her cabaret debut, and Les Frères Jacques performed their mixture of song, humour, dance and mime. Among the audiences were André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Prévert, Boris Vian and Miles Davis. Presiding over them all was the club's charismatic owner, Nikos Papatakis, who has died aged 92. He was also renowned for his distinctive contribution to the world of film.
Known as Nico to his friends, Papatakis, a self-styled subversive, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Greek parents. Aged 17, he joined Haile Selassie's army to fight against the...
- 3/9/2011
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
You can now watch live theatre, pop, opera and more online – but is it ever a match for the real thing? Leo Benedictus spends a week on his sofa in a bid to find out
To get the most from any show, apparently, you have to be there. No technology can transmit the sound of a real orchestra or the immediacy of theatre, can it? If you haven't shared a room with your favourite band, you can't really call yourself a fan. Even giant plasma screens and Blu-ray players cannot properly display those films that, everyone agrees, "you have to see in the cinema".
And everyone is probably right. But they overrate some aspects of the live experience, too. Having spent money going out, we all want to believe we had a good time, if only so we don't resent the journey home. A certain cachet attaches itself to the...
To get the most from any show, apparently, you have to be there. No technology can transmit the sound of a real orchestra or the immediacy of theatre, can it? If you haven't shared a room with your favourite band, you can't really call yourself a fan. Even giant plasma screens and Blu-ray players cannot properly display those films that, everyone agrees, "you have to see in the cinema".
And everyone is probably right. But they overrate some aspects of the live experience, too. Having spent money going out, we all want to believe we had a good time, if only so we don't resent the journey home. A certain cachet attaches itself to the...
- 7/26/2010
- by Leo Benedictus
- The Guardian - Film News
Gabriele Tranchina with her latest release "A Song Of Love's Color" on Jazzheads Records will host a party Sunday, June 13 at 8:30Pm at Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue). A Song of Love's Color features Gabriele Tranchina (voice, background vocals); Joe Vincent Tranchina (piano, composition, arrangements); Santi Debriano (bass); Bobby Sanabria (drums, percussion); Renato Thoms (percussion). Gabriele combines elements of Jazz, World Music, melodic and rhythmic diversity and an array of languages, drawing Gabriele's new and exciting sound into the spotlight. For more information visit http://www.gabrieletranchina.com/ or http://www.jazzheads.com/.
- 6/14/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
Gabriele Tranchina with her latest release "A Song Of Love's Color" on Jazzheads Records will host a party Sunday, June 13 at 8:30Pm at Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue). A Song of Love's Color features Gabriele Tranchina (voice, background vocals); Joe Vincent Tranchina (piano, composition, arrangements); Santi Debriano (bass); Bobby Sanabria (drums, percussion); Renato Thoms (percussion). Gabriele combines elements of Jazz, World Music, melodic and rhythmic diversity and an array of languages, drawing Gabriele's new and exciting sound into the spotlight. For more information visit http://www.gabrieletranchina.com/ or http://www.jazzheads.com/.
- 5/26/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
International vocalist Gabriele Tranchina, combining elements of jazz, world music, melodic, and rhythmic diversity in an array of languages, released her new album on Jazzheads on April 13, 2010. This CD, 'A Song of Love's Color,' fuses a variety of rhythms and languages. On it, European-raised and New York-based Gabriele Tranchina brings her world views and multilingual abilities to center stage. The CD was produced by multiple Grammy Award-nominee Bobby Sanabria and Joe Vincent Tranchina, mixed by award-winning composer/pianist Randy Klein and Joe Vincent Tranchina, and mastered by recording engineer Gene Paul.
- 4/27/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
Kenneth Anger's crazy, gorgeous, disturbing films almost landed him in jail. The avant-garde pioneer talks Simon Hattenstone through all his demons
The gallery is so tiny I think I've walked into somebody's front room. A 10-minute film plays on a loop. Weirded-out rock stars who look like Mick Jagger, or who are Mick Jagger, preen, strut and do their late-1960s satanic thing. White dots form a pyramid on a black background, naked boys lounge on a sofa, marines jump from a helicopter. There's a cat, a dog, an all-seeing Egyptian eye, people smoking dope out of a skull. A synthesiser makes an unbearable noise. There are no words, no story.
Around the screen, in London's Sprüth Magers gallery, a bunch of 21st-century trendies and stoners are watching this film, called Invocation of My Demon Brother, in awe, their ages ranging from late teens to late 80s. Next door,...
The gallery is so tiny I think I've walked into somebody's front room. A 10-minute film plays on a loop. Weirded-out rock stars who look like Mick Jagger, or who are Mick Jagger, preen, strut and do their late-1960s satanic thing. White dots form a pyramid on a black background, naked boys lounge on a sofa, marines jump from a helicopter. There's a cat, a dog, an all-seeing Egyptian eye, people smoking dope out of a skull. A synthesiser makes an unbearable noise. There are no words, no story.
Around the screen, in London's Sprüth Magers gallery, a bunch of 21st-century trendies and stoners are watching this film, called Invocation of My Demon Brother, in awe, their ages ranging from late teens to late 80s. Next door,...
- 3/10/2010
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
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