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Bright Lights Film Journal
Issue 25 | August 1999

features

The Jackson Twins: What Next for Michael and Janet? — Self-invention and self-love: Can you tell the difference?

There’s Something About Harry: To Have and Have Not as Novel and Film — Hemingway’s second-rate "novel" redeemed through the miracle of moving pictures

interview

Ellen Cabot — No, Victoria Sloan — No, David DeCoteau Speaks! — On leatherboys and love in Silverlake, with a special gift for size queens

film festival

Empty Closets: The 1999 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival — The preeminent queer filmfest in overview

Penisspotting: Phallic Imagery in the 1999 SFILGFF — Sightings of our spongy-tissued li’l pal in this year’s fest

Ask, Tell: Documentaries in the 1999 SFILGFF — Highlights of the lives of real-life queers from as far as South Africa and as near as your closet

Of Loincloths and Lamé: Sons of Hercules — Shed a tear for these long-lost Roman go-go boys and evil queens of all sexes

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homo corner

First Lust: Edge of Seventeen — Queerboys in heat, with a special assist from Lea Delaria

Relax … It's Just Sex — Jennifer Tilly redeems this movie’s mood swings as the fag hag to end all

A Realm of Pure Feeling: Defying Gravity — Fratboys doing it for — and to — themselves

Return of the Repressed: Hard — A queer psycho-killer and a hunky closeted cop bump heads, among other things

video reviews

DVD: Four Radley Metzger Classics on DVD — Stylish softcore from one of the pioneers

DVD: Three Homo Classics on DVD — A queer feature, a queer documentary, and a featurette that’s just plain queer

VHS: Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin — If you think Benchley, Woollcott, et al. are wits, you’re half right

fun in the underground

Decamping with Andy: Inner and Outer Space, Screen Test, Hedy, Horse — Warhol rarities: dizzy tributes to horses, insanity, and Hedy Lamarr with a five o’clock shadow

Compulsive Repetitions: Short Works by Martin Arnold — The pleasures and terrors of Old Hollywood from a master manipulator

book reviews

Stranger Than Paradise: Maverick Film-makers in Recent American Cinema, by Geoff Andrew

The St. James Women Filmmakers Encyclopedia: Women on the Other Side of the Camera, edited by Amy L. Unterberger

The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, by J. Gordon Melton