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July 2001 | Issue 33
Editorial
Ola, swells!
By Gary Morris
Articles
Poverty Row, Wardour Street: The Last Years of British Exploitation Cinema
By Julian Upton
This golden age is more like fool’s gold, but it has its thrills
Hand Me That 14-Inch Willy! The Puppet Artistry of Barry Purves
By Gary Morris
This brilliant Brit’s artistry breathes life into wood and wire
Feedback from the Global Village
By Alan Vanneman
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China offers three documentaries on DVD for the price of one; Genghis Blues is too shaggy for words
Sweet Movies: Dusan Makavejev on VHS
By Gary Morris
Free-associating with a master of free cinema
Movies
Fred and Ginger Savor La Belle Romance in Swing Time
By Alan Vanneman
"Shall we take it straight through?"
Gohatto — or the End of Oshima Nagisa?
By Andrew Grossman
Truly subversive or mere cinematic "seasoning," in the director’s own phrase?
The Girls Can’t Help It! Baise-Moi
By Gary Morris
Feminist screed or fetish-fuckathon? Best to flip a coin
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Art Film Hidden Inside the Chop-Socky Flick
By Matthew Levie
Ang Lee: third-stage feminist?
Brad and Julia go south in The Mexican
By Alan Vanneman
Julia Roberts has pits!
Buried Alive: Francois Ozon’s Under the Sand
By Gary Morris
A French angst-fest mostly redeemed by Charlotte Rampling’s nuanced portrait of a woman unhinged
Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus on DVD
By Gary Morris
The bad boys of classic Brit cinema pull out all the stops, maybe a couple too many
Bob Dylan’s Don’t Look Back on DVD
By Alan Vanneman
The dude with the ’tude
Abel Gance’s Lucrezia Borgia on DVD
By Robert Keser
The Borgias are having an orgy
Mother Russia! Von Sternberg’s Scarlet Empress on DVD
By Gary Morris
Cinema's great pictorialist's "relentless excursion into style" in an allegedly restored transfer
Stephen Sondheim’s Company on DVD
By Alan Vanneman
Life is shit: Let's put on a show!
Louis Prima: The Wildest! on DVD
By Gary Morris
The illustrious history of the king of the hepcats (and the queen of deadpan)
Stars
Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes
By Gary Morris
Livin’ large with the Hung One
Directors
Blood Spear, Mt. Fuji: Uchida Tomu’s Conflicted Comeback from Manchuria
By Craig Watts
Resurrection and renewal in postwar Japanese cinema, as seen through Tomu’s 1955 masterpiece
Festivals
Something to Come Out To: Queer Docs Triumph at the 2001 SFILGFF
By Gary Morris
A bumper crop of docs scale the heights and trawl the depths of queer culture
There’s One! Penisspotting in the 2001 SFILGFF
By Gary Morris
The world is your tearoom
The 2001 San Francisco Asian-American International Film Festival
By Gary Morris
Gangbangers, sex robots, and babydykes, oh my!
Shaddup! The 2001 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
By Gary Morris
All’s quiet on the cinematic front in this seductive survey of the artful ‘20s
Books
Recent Posts

The fabulous "furies" sequence from the 1932 film Crime Without Passion, by the master of the 1930s Hollywood montage (and more), Slavko Vorkapich. All hail the anima!

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Gordon Thomas, and other BL staff, check out the eye- popping pleasures of Blu-Ray DVD.

» Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
» The General (Keaton)
» Sunrise (Borzage)
» 8-1/2 (Fellini)
» Playtime (Tati)
» Winstanley (Brownlow & Mollo)
» My Childhood, My Ain Folk ... (Bill Douglas)
» In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
» Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)
» Repulsion (Polanski)

BL Associate Editor Alan Vanneman watches (and reviews) television shows so you don't have to. Click if you dare.

» 30 Rock
» Broadway Theatre Archive
» Charlie’s Angels
» Death of a Salesman
» Freaks and Geeks
» Have Gun Will Travel
» Magnum P.I.
» Monk
» Pamela Anderson Roast

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