Sutherland, David

1984

When a morally indignant admiral threw Paul Cadmus’s painting of rowdy sailors out of a WPA exhibition in 1934, it was only the first scandal in the artist’s unusual career. In this intimate film portrait, Cadmus, now 80, draws from the nude, demonstrates his mastery of ancient painting techniques, and candidly recounts his past as a prominent American scene painter and controversial social satirist.

1984

1984

Bressan, Jr, Arthur

1983

Fassbinder, Werner

1983

Producer Dieter Schidor originally took the task of filming Genet's sadist-and-sailors dockside drama to Bernardo Bertolucci (who could only, according to Schidor, "present it as cock poetry"), then Werner Schroeter (who would turn it into "faggot poetry"), and finally Fassbinder (" I thought he might make it gay kitchen trash"). Hardly trash, the result is instead one of the most overdetermined gay films of all time: starring salty Jeanne Moreau, blank-face Brad Davis, and a surreal Barbarella-style seaport.

Friedrich, Su

1983

Gently Down the Stream uses material from a succession of dreams taken from eight years of journals to exorcise the mysterious ritualistic power of repeating images. The gritty streets are not the only landscape to be reclaimed, as Su Friedrich suggests in Gently Down The Stream, constructed from fourteen of the filmmaker’s dreams.

Almodovar, Pedro

1983

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent. [IMDB]

Almodovar, Pedro

1983

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent. [IMDB]

Huestis, Marc

1982

Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? follows Marcie Clark, a suburban housewife dissatisfied with her bouffant and barbecue lifestyle, who leaves home in search of something new. She arrives in San Francisco, smack in the middle of its eccentric yet thriving artistic underground. Filmed on a shoestring budget of $20,000, Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? captures one of the most exciting periods of San Francisco's gay culture, featuring some of the city's most notable celebrities of the time: LuLu, Coco Vega, Silvana Nova, The Wasp Women, Tommy Pace, and an extraordinary performance by Ann Block as the naive Marcie Clark.

1982