To coincide with the epic BFI season on Joan Crawford, Loverboy contributor and Joan aficionado Matt Harris asks the question, was she an actress or just a camp icon? Joan Crawford started her career as a body double for Norma Shearer in 1925, and within three years had become the archetypal flapper of the late […]
Rewatching Maurice (1987) today, more than thirty years after its initial release, so much of it is strikingly ahead of its time. That a mainstream film made at the height of the AIDS crisis should celebrate gay love and (spoiler alert) even dare to include a happy ending still feels refreshing. The film won multiple awards at […]
Given the subject matter I don’t think Studio 54 could have failed to be a lot of fun, and Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary doesn’t disappoint. Opening in April 1977, the club was an overnight sensation, attracting a host of New York’s most glamorous celebrities who partied alongside gays and ordinary partygoers. Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Liza Minnelli, […]
If you’re even vaguely a fan the iconic Grey Gardens, Göran Hugo Olsson’s new documentary That Summer is essential viewing. If you haven’t seen the Maysles brothers’ masterpiece (why not?) this is probably not for you, but it is, in any case, an absolute gem of 70s archive film. The story starts out with a narrated intro from legendary […]
