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There's more sex in the movie, including a three-way gay routine that features a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" sung in very close quarters. (It still sounds better than Roseanne's version.) But Mitchell has little interest in being the avatar of '70s porn directors. His structuring...
In the last decade, some European directors (Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noe) have made serious dramas with explicit sexual elements; but these forays could be pretty dour. Nobody I'm aware of had tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who...
I'm not saying Shortbus is up there with Citizen Kane or Drunken Master II; it's mostly clever, sometimes meandering. And I have to say I didn't get all that jazzed by the many gay exertions (or the straight ones). But I was, critically speaking, excited to see...
So I applaud Mitchell. And I say to other intrepid filmmakers: Just do it.
In 1952, Harvard’s graduating class included just four blacks. A half-century later, nearly 700 black alums from the classes of 1949 to 2006 packed Boston’s second-largest ballroom for the keynote dinner of Black Alumni Weekend. The event marked the largest gathering of...