Patrick Browne

Fuck Maximillian!BRIAN to SALLY – CABARETI do!SALLY to BRIAN – CABARETSo do I!BRIAN to SALLY – CABARET For a gay man, these are some of the sweetest words ever spoken on film. Set in Berlin in 1931, in the dying light of the Weimar Republic, the film unfolds less than two years before the Nazi Party seizes power. We move through this precarious world with Brian (Michael York), the delectable…

DIRECTOR: Ken Russell Before he became a director, Derek Jarman was a production designer. His greatest achievement was designing the extraordinary white-brick modernist interiors for the Ursuline convent in Ken Russell’s 1971 movie The Devils. Set in 1634, during the reign of King Louis XIII and his bulldog Cardinal Richelieu, in the fortified French city of Loudun, the film dramatizes the…

DIRECTOR: Bruce Kessler The Gay Deceivers (1969) is a satirical comedy about two young men who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft, only to find themselves immersed in a queer community that challenges their assumptions. Directed by race-car driver, TV director, adventurer and Howard Hawks protegee Bruce Kessler, the film sits squarely in the late-1960s draft-dodger queer farce, and his…

DIRECTOR: Jacques Toutneur The finest achievement of producer Val Lewton’s legendary RKO horror cycle, Cat People (1942) occupies a foundational place in queer film history because it mobilizes horror not as spectacle but as a grammar of deviance, repression, and embodied otherness. The film’s central figure, Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian fashion illustrator newly arrived in New York,…

DIRECTORS: The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) “The Red Shoes” (1948) tells the story of a gifted young ballerina forced to choose between absolute devotion to her art and the man she loves, a conflict that leads to one of cinema’s most tragic finales. At the center is Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), an aspiring dancer whose talent catches the eye of Boris Lermontov (Anton…

DIRECTOR: Michael Cimino Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is a 1974 crime–action comedy about an unlikely partnership between a seasoned bank robber and a carefree young drifter who team up for a high‑stakes heist while outrunning vengeful former associates. The film blends humor, tension, and a surprising emotional core as the duo navigates loyalty, danger, and the consequences of their past. John…

DIRECTOR: Guy Hamilton MR. WINT and MR. KIDD In Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover, father of Crispin) and Mr. Kidd (noted American Jazz bassist Putter Smith) are the American hitmen quietly cleaning up Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s (Charles Gray) diamond-smuggling pipeline—though, tellingly, they are never once shown in his presence. Their assignment is simple and brutal: erase every…

DIRECTOR: John Milius John Milius’ epic coming-of-age buddy sports comedy-drama film had everything going for it. An homage to the time he spent surfing in Malibu during his youth, he and his friends George Lucas and Steven Spielberg famously agreed to exchange a percentage point for Big Wednesday , Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind prior to the release of the three films…

DIRECTOR: Jerry Schatzberg Max Millan (Gene Hackman), a hot-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel “Lion” Delbuchi (Al Pacino), a childlike former sailor, meet hitchhiking in California. Despite clashing personalities, they decide to travel together, pooling their savings to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. They visit Max’s sister, but their antics land them in a prison farm for a month. Max…

DIRECTOR: Steve Carver Antebellum New Orleans. Mid-19th century. DeMarigny is a wealthy Frenchman who forces enslaved men to fight for his entertainment. He desires Drum (Ken Norton) sexually, but Drum rejects him, leading DeMarigny to harbor resentment. John Colicos’ DeMarigny is a loathsome excuse for a human being who harbors queer desires. In the slave revolt, Drum castrates…

DIRECTOR: Gordan Willis Emily Hollander (Talia Shire) is the subject of a lesbian obsession of Andrea Glassen (Elizabeth Ashley), her next-door neighbor. Virulently homophobic movie, it was the only outing as director by legendary cameraman Gordon Willis. He and his two leading ladies, should have known better. Luckily, nobody saw it. Now streaming on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video,, and…