Rock Hudson's Home Movies

I knew basically nothing about this other than that it's a staple of Queer Cinema. I was expecting a straightforward documentary on Rock Hudson, with a focus on his homosexuality. I wasn't expecting a piece of homemade Video Art with a deadpan Eric Farr as Hudson, both…

Scumbalina

As a big fan of what Rock Hudson films I've seen, this was both inspiring and heartwrenching to watch. It's an essay film about Hudson's sexuality, Hollywood's coyness about it, and, of course, Hudson's death. It recasts much of Hudson's work in the light of his sexuality,…

Sally Jane Black

Available here for viewing. This astounding film-essay is forged from a radical desire to uncover truth and knowledge about the world, to help us understand the world better through the moving picture. Mark Rappaport's ostensible subject—how Rock Hudson's homosexuality…

Carlos Valladares

Obsessed with how someone just compiled an hour's worth of gay subtext from somebody's career. i should do that with all my favorite actors

art

I love my dead gay husband.

saint judas fonda

Cruising Hudson's filmography— Hollywood's construction of masculinity read to filth. It winks and bites, of course. But it also aches.

roseanneluvr

you can sense rappaport's delight in putting this together, cleverly (and with deep passion and adoration) editing footage from rock hudson's greatest films to present him, in this fiction, as hyperaware of the roles he was taking, of how his characters may have actually…

Eric Eidelstein

FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG is an incendiary film, one that uses the pillar its subject was tied to in Preminger's Joan of Arc film to stake the claim that she was the bridge between Old Hollywood and a new cinematic era, even as it also suggests that for women, this…

Jake Cole

There's enough ACT-UP era pain expressed in the last reel to redeem it, but much of the runtime seemed smirky,schadenfreude-y, and trying too hard, all seventies-gay characteristics. As a work of "cultural studies," it's very dated. And being edited from VCR tapes gives the…

Lencho of the Apes