Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
Film
Legendary French screen actor Antonin Artaud was a monstre sacre, an accolade meaning an irresistibly diabolical personage.His cinematic mystique, as well as his writings, such as The Theatre and Its Double and The Theatre of Cruelty, influenced a generation ...
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The near-forgotten French classic La Bataille du rail, by master neo-realist filmmaker Rene Clement, has been newly restored on DVD.This gut-wrenching World War II thriller depicts the French resistance fighters who sabotaged the Nazi occupation and defied Vichy conciliation. ...
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Ice Men is a buddy movie wrapped inside a gay flick around a situation comedy of testosterone manners. Cinematographer turned director Thom Best is known for his glossy episodes of the Showtime hit series Queer as Folk. That series ...
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Writer/director Rodney Evansconceived Brother to Brother partly to dramatize his individual experiences as an alienated artist coming of age. Evans, a documentarian, wanted to make a narrative film about topics that never have been dealt with before. His insight ...
Television
Fans of the American version of Queer as Folk need a fix so bad that the fizzle of the last two seasons will hardly matter as the rainbow sets on Pittsburgh’s mythical gaytropolis.After more than a year, the show ...
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There are two types of people--those who hate musicals and those who would knock their own mothers down to get a front row seat. It’s fitting that Julie Andrews narrates PBS’s landmark series Broadway: The American Musical since Andrews, ...
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“The close-up says everything. It's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away and your face ...
Television
Magic Color Clock from the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Americanization of the groundbreaking British series, Queer as Folk, has been a hit and miss affair. Desperate to stay at the head of the ...
Television
How queer can Queer As Folk be as Showtime’s hottest series? It depends. If you are an activist transsexual lesbian fighting for a seat on the city council to represent sexual minorities, it probably offers nothing much. Yet, this ...
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For years public television stations would dust off the great episodes of The Judy Garland Show from the early 60s or recreations of her triumphant stage show Judy at Carnegie Hall, to raise pledge money. They even would rerun ...
