Daniel Day-Lewis became an international star in this groundbreaking British film that also was the breakthrough for director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi.
Category: LGBTQ
‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche explores the lives of outsiders looking for their place in Blue is the Warmest Color (France, 2013) an intimate love story based on a graphic novel. Thanks to Academy rules for foreign films, it wasn’t eligible for an Oscar nomination due to the timing of its French theatrical release. But it took home […]
RW Fassbinder’s ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’ on Amazon Prime Video
Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted his own stage play for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Germany, 1972), a modern twist on The Women, the great all-woman Hollywood classic of sex and social conventions in high society. Margit Carstensen is successful fashion designer Petra von Kant, who lives alone in her stark apartment with Marlene […]
What to stream: ‘Set it Up’ and the end of ‘Portlandia’ on Netflix, ‘King of California’ on Prime Video, ‘Love, Simon’ on VOD
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Love, Simon (2018, PG-13) uses the familiar conventions of the coming-of-age teenage romantic comedy for the story of a gay high school boy (Nick Robinson) coming out to his friends and […]