What critic B. Ruby Rich dubbed the “New Queer Cinema” encountered little but praise (plus some attention-getting damnation from political conservatives) with such early ’90s titles as “Swoon,” “My Own Private Idaho,” “The Living End,” “Paris Is Burning,” and so forth. But by mid-decade the vogue had run long enough that even gay audiences felt less inclined to embrace every creative effort, giving a relatively cold shoulder to Steve McLean’s “Postcards From America” (1994) and Todd Verow’s “Frisk.” Both were adapted from edgy gay lit figures — the former from autobiographical writings by David Wojnarowicz (who’d died of AIDS), the latter from a typically violent, queasy novel by Dennis Cooper.
These films look better now than most critics or viewers allowed then. The revulsion “Frisk” was greeted with (at a time when gay films were expected to provide some measure of reassuring uplift) only emboldened Verow as a since-highly-prolific director of microbudget features,...
These films look better now than most critics or viewers allowed then. The revulsion “Frisk” was greeted with (at a time when gay films were expected to provide some measure of reassuring uplift) only emboldened Verow as a since-highly-prolific director of microbudget features,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
My Brother the Devil
Written and directed by Sally El Hosaini
UK, 2011
Although from East London, fourteen-year-old Mo (Fady Elsayed) and his older brother Rashid (James Floyd) speak an entirely different language. On the treacherous streets of Hackney, England, gang members are endeared with familial names, with people often calling each other ‘fam’ or ‘cuz’. So in Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil, what does the titles really suggest?
Born in an Egyptian household, Mo and his brother have grown up on an impoverished council estate. Rashid scrapes a living as a member of a local gang, selling drugs and other miscellaneous illegalities, but doesn’t want Mo to follow in his footsteps, whom focuses more on his music and academics.
But when a rival gang leader named Demon (Leemore Marrett Jr.) oversteps his boundaries and intrudes upon Rashid’s, an ensuing gang war leads to events and...
Written and directed by Sally El Hosaini
UK, 2011
Although from East London, fourteen-year-old Mo (Fady Elsayed) and his older brother Rashid (James Floyd) speak an entirely different language. On the treacherous streets of Hackney, England, gang members are endeared with familial names, with people often calling each other ‘fam’ or ‘cuz’. So in Sally El Hosaini’s My Brother the Devil, what does the titles really suggest?
Born in an Egyptian household, Mo and his brother have grown up on an impoverished council estate. Rashid scrapes a living as a member of a local gang, selling drugs and other miscellaneous illegalities, but doesn’t want Mo to follow in his footsteps, whom focuses more on his music and academics.
But when a rival gang leader named Demon (Leemore Marrett Jr.) oversteps his boundaries and intrudes upon Rashid’s, an ensuing gang war leads to events and...
- 5/18/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
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