David Ehrenstein

It's not your mother's Mildred Pierce. Todd Haynes' five-part HBO miniseries isn't a "remake" of the Joan Crawford classic or a radical reworking of its ideas, like the gay indie auteur's Douglas Sirk–inspired Far From Heaven. Rather, Haynes and co-scripter Jon Raymond have fashioned a scrupulously faithful adaptation of James......

The most unique experimental stylist to enter the mainstream since Luis Buñuel, writer-director David Lynch, in startling films such as Mulholland Drive and the breakthrough TV series Twin Peaks, mixes seemingly placid images of everyday life with glimpses of the waking nightmare he shows to be lurking just beneath its......

"In some ways everything's changed, and it's a new world for gays and lesbians," says gay documentary filmmaker Rob Epstein. "On the other hand, if you're coming out now alone and isolated somewhere without any support system, it's the same as it ever was." Which is why, in their latest......

While the spotlight is logically on the “new” at the Los Angeles Film Festival, much of the essential action springs from the “old,” thanks to numerous retrospective screenings of films both classic and obscure.Chief among them are two films about the decline of the aristocracy in their respective countries: Luchino......

"I have known women who have lived that life," says Tilda Swinton of Emma, the role she plays in her new film, I Am Love. "She wears the right uniform. She sits in the right position at the head of the table. She runs the show, she plays the part......

"Everybody wants to tell you how it was," Anna Karina says exasperatedly. "I read strange things in the papers and for the most part they're written by people who weren't there. I get very upset about that." If anyone is an authority on "how it was" to be with Jean-Luc......

As the Weekly’s Scott Foundas has noted, the newly minted Disney cartoon feature The Princess and the Frog is meant to be taken as “symbolic reparation” for the presumed insult of the studio’s 1946 animation-plus-live-action hit Song of the South. Speaking as an African-American who has always had a fondness......

“We’re invisible!” a young man (Matthew Goode) chides his older lover (Colin Firth), cheekily kissing him “where the neighbors can see.” It’s a brief but central moment in A Single Man, Tom Ford’s lushly appointed, deeply moving adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s finest novel. Published in 1964, this day-in-the-life of a......

Read Scott Foundas' film review, "Outrage: Dicks Out, Gays Hide."   “Once it was ‘the love that dare not speak its name.’ Now it won’t shut up.” So quipped Mike Nichols back in the day — so far back, in fact, that it’s impossible he imagined then that five decades......