“Argentine Tango is to lead and follow, to step to & fro, to turn right & left, to move together as one body. To Tango is to trust, to pause, to dance in a close embrace, articulating the unfolding of desire into passion.” — Dr. Hugo Heyrman Film: All-male dance sequence from ‘Tango,’ written and […]
Categories: choreography,dance,film,gay,video
Tagged: Carlos Rivarola, Carlos Saura, dance, gay, Julio Bocca, tango
A Single Man, the classic gay novel by Christopher Isherwood, is going from page to screen in a project directed by fashion god Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. This is terrifically exciting and long overdue. The movie had its world premiere last week at the Venice Film Festival and all reports […]
Categories: book,film,gay,video
Tagged: A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, David Scearce, gay, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival
A screen, pitch black. A letterbox opens, two eyes peering through all gloryhole curious. Pull back, sharply yanked. The door caves kicked in. Trilbied police thunder through. “Dear oh dear oh dear. Somebody here’s been playing silly buggers” smirks a suave D.C. surveying the still warm corpses of playwright Joe Orton and his murdering, then […]
Tagged: Alan Bennett, Dom Agius, Gary Oldman, Joe Orton, John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, Stephen Frears
‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ from the film version of ‘Carousel’ (1956) Directed by Henry King Music by Richard Rodgers Book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones Based on Ferenc Molnár’s play ‘Liliom’ (1909)
Categories: choreography,film,music,video
Tagged: Carousel, Ferenc Molnár, Gordon MacRae, Henry King, Liliom, Rogers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, things i love
