As part of our coverage of film including past, present and future, we are inaugurating a new series of articles dedicated to film classics. These will be reviews of films [...]
By Ron Merk Made by first-time director, Michael Mayer, this romance and political thriller, crosses many borders to bring us the complicated story of two gay men. One is [...]
By Ozgur Pamukcu Woody Allen’s films are something I always look forward to seeing. They look at the human condition with a particular point of view, uniquely Allen’s, [...]
By Ron Merk This is a very good film. I thought I’d start with that because I want readers to run as fast as they can to any venue which is showing this film by [...]
By Ron Merk I regret that I didn’t get a chance to interview the filmmakers who created this film which I reviewed during the recent Frameline Film Festival in San [...]
By Ron Merk James Broughton is hard to define, but most truly interesting people are. His life was spent focused on life, itself, making art and experimental films, and [...]
By Ron Merk I will admit right away that this was a very difficult film to review. There’s no question that the story of Hannah Arendt, and how she went to Israel to [...]
By Ron Merk Last night I had the opportunity to attend a Frameline LGBT Film Festival San Francisco screening of Yen Tan’s new film, entitled “Pit Stop.” I have [...]
By Ron Merk We recently published an interview with Jon, a follow up to one I did with him more than ten years ago. I’m constantly amazed how far he can take things on [...]
By Ron Merk My friends, Christie Herring and Marc Smolowitz worked for years on the documentary, “The Campaign,” which premiered at this year’s Frameline37 LGBT [...]