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Bright Lights Film Journal
Issue 20 | November 1997

features

Future Imperfect: Sci-Fi's Nationalist Narratives — The future's no future, but that's okay — your spaceship is almost ready!

Albert Zugsmith's Opium Dreams — Can one man's brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.

Gregory Markopoulos: Seconds in Eternity — Cinema's long-lost “supreme erotic poet” has come back to the fold — briefly.

Contempt — If Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang aren't enough of a lure, how about all those beautiful empty spaces?

Marginalism in The Fugitive — A bottle of “Black & Beautiful” hair dye gives Harrison Ford his ticket to the demimonde.

hong kong film

Recent Hong Kong Films — Enjoy Yourself To-night, Final Justice, Midnight Zone, Once Upon a Time in China and America

homo corner

Queer Kisses — What is it about the sight of two men kissing that drives Americans insane? Independent, foreign, and porn films offer plenty of all-male kisses and more, but the mainstream has mostly showed extreme cowardice in this area.

Boyfriends — This sweet, sad queer ensemble piece from Britain quietly buries its pompous American counterparts.

reviews

Love's Debris — Thrill as withered opera hags revisit their vital past!

Conspirators of Pleasure — Noodles up the nose, murdered dolls, toe-sucking fish — these are the hallmarks of Prague's zaniest surrealist!

book reviews

Exploitation! — Video Premieres, Vampires on Video, Jackie Chan, Immoral Tales, Filmmaking on the Fringe, Horror and Science Fiction Films