"He created magic with this camera." Greenwich Ent. has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes, made by an art director turned filmmaker named Sam Shahid. This photography docu is an intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. It reveals Lynes' gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein & Alfred Kinsey, and also his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists. From visionary art director Sam Shahid, Hidden Master features a stunning collection of photography from the 1930s-50s, uncovering the life of Lynes less known: his gifted eye for the male form, his friendships, and his enduring effect as one of the first openly gay American artists. Similar to the other doc about the other great photographer Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
- 3/29/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The groundwork was laid for Nicole Newnham’s Oscar-contending documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite back when the director was just a girl.
“I was 12 years old when I discovered The Hite Report in my mother’s nightstand drawer,” the filmmaker has written, “sneaking it to read for myself, to learn about the world of female sexuality, a world that remained cloaked in shame and mystery for me as for so many others.”
For a time, The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality could be found in nightstand drawers or displayed less surreptitiously on bookstore shelves and in library stacks across the country, its author a fixture on talk shows and top of mind in the zeitgeist. Interest in her work was by no means limited to the U.S.: Hite’s study was translated into more than a dozen languages.
‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’
Newnham...
“I was 12 years old when I discovered The Hite Report in my mother’s nightstand drawer,” the filmmaker has written, “sneaking it to read for myself, to learn about the world of female sexuality, a world that remained cloaked in shame and mystery for me as for so many others.”
For a time, The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality could be found in nightstand drawers or displayed less surreptitiously on bookstore shelves and in library stacks across the country, its author a fixture on talk shows and top of mind in the zeitgeist. Interest in her work was by no means limited to the U.S.: Hite’s study was translated into more than a dozen languages.
‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’
Newnham...
- 12/3/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman in No Hard FeelingsPhoto: Macall Polay/Sony Pictures Entertainment
In No Hard Feelings, Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a floundering 32-year-old so down on her luck she’s willing to make a deal with the parents of a sheltered 19-year-old to “date” him in exchange...
In No Hard Feelings, Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a floundering 32-year-old so down on her luck she’s willing to make a deal with the parents of a sheltered 19-year-old to “date” him in exchange...
- 6/22/2023
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
Kenneth Anger, the experimental filmmaker, actor and author who directed nearly 40 short films including the homoerotic “Fireworks” and “Scorpio Rising,” has died, according to the Sprüeth Magers art gallery. He was 96.
“It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of visionary filmmaker, artist and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023),” the gallery, which exhibited Anger’s work, wrote. “Kenneth was a trailblazer. His cinematic genius and influence will live on and continue to transform all those who encounter his films, words and vision.”
It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of visionary filmmaker, artist and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023).
Kenneth was a trailblazer. His cinematic genius and influence will live on and continue to transform all those who encounter his films, words and vision. pic.twitter.com/xIfxWNmGUK
— Sprueth Magers (@SpruethMagers) May 24, 2023
From his first homemade film in 1937 as a boy to his final effort, a two-and-a-half-minute film “Missoni...
“It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of visionary filmmaker, artist and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023),” the gallery, which exhibited Anger’s work, wrote. “Kenneth was a trailblazer. His cinematic genius and influence will live on and continue to transform all those who encounter his films, words and vision.”
It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of visionary filmmaker, artist and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023).
Kenneth was a trailblazer. His cinematic genius and influence will live on and continue to transform all those who encounter his films, words and vision. pic.twitter.com/xIfxWNmGUK
— Sprueth Magers (@SpruethMagers) May 24, 2023
From his first homemade film in 1937 as a boy to his final effort, a two-and-a-half-minute film “Missoni...
- 5/24/2023
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
“Time is all we have and every second that ticks away is one less second we’re alive,” Kenneth Anger told an interviewer from The Guardian 16 and a half years before his death this May at the age of 96. “The sands of time are going through the hourglass but it doesn’t frighten me.”
If Woody Allen’s Zelig was found rubbing elbows with the storied and famous of the ’20s and ’30s, starting in the 1950s Anger was for some decades more than a match for him. His legacy is poised between the pathbreaking cinematic auteur who made such avant-garde shorts as “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome” (1954) and “Scorpio Rising” (1963) and the purveyor of at times fictionalized Hollywood scandal in the sensational and frequently updated “Hollywood Babylon” (1959).
He was not immune from his own brushes with dark history — the very bikers he incorporated in some of his middle-period work...
If Woody Allen’s Zelig was found rubbing elbows with the storied and famous of the ’20s and ’30s, starting in the 1950s Anger was for some decades more than a match for him. His legacy is poised between the pathbreaking cinematic auteur who made such avant-garde shorts as “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome” (1954) and “Scorpio Rising” (1963) and the purveyor of at times fictionalized Hollywood scandal in the sensational and frequently updated “Hollywood Babylon” (1959).
He was not immune from his own brushes with dark history — the very bikers he incorporated in some of his middle-period work...
- 5/24/2023
- by Fred Schruers
- Indiewire
Liam Neeson hasn’t kept count, but someone in the Open Road marketing department sure did: Marketing for Neil Jordan’s “Marlowe,” which casts the Oscar nominee as Raymond Chandler’s iconic gumshoe Philip Marlowe, note that the actor has reached the milestone of appearing in 100 films. If that’s not reason enough to speak to the 70-year-old Irish actor about the breadth of his cinematic career, what could possibly be?
(Due diligence: Neeson’s IMDb profile currently lists 139 acting roles, including voice work and TV shows, and as Neeson will remind us, documentaries. We did our own count, including TV movies, feature films, voice work, and cameos, and got to 99. We’ll take it.)
So: Over the course of 100 films (give or take), 45 years in the industry, and numerous awards, Neeson has portrayed real people, iconic characters, transcended genre (“Love Actually” and “Star Wars”) — and at the end of it,...
(Due diligence: Neeson’s IMDb profile currently lists 139 acting roles, including voice work and TV shows, and as Neeson will remind us, documentaries. We did our own count, including TV movies, feature films, voice work, and cameos, and got to 99. We’ll take it.)
So: Over the course of 100 films (give or take), 45 years in the industry, and numerous awards, Neeson has portrayed real people, iconic characters, transcended genre (“Love Actually” and “Star Wars”) — and at the end of it,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Midway through our conversation, Laura Linney flashes the kind of smile that can’t be faked. Big, dimpled; a dazzling sunrise of warmth. The triple-Oscar-nominated star has begun telling me the story of how she met her husband. It was 2004, the year after Love Actually, in which she played the pining office worker, Sarah. Linney was flying to the Telluride Film Festival, where her latest film, Kinsey – about the pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey – was to be unveiled.
When she landed, she was introduced to a local real estate agent who was helping out with the festival. His name was Marc Schauer. “He was assigned to make sure I got from point A to point B on time and in one piece,” remembers Linney, who had brought her mum along for the ride. “I was like, ‘This guy seems like a nice guy.’ I was just relieved he wasn’t awkward or needy or nervous,...
When she landed, she was introduced to a local real estate agent who was helping out with the festival. His name was Marc Schauer. “He was assigned to make sure I got from point A to point B on time and in one piece,” remembers Linney, who had brought her mum along for the ride. “I was like, ‘This guy seems like a nice guy.’ I was just relieved he wasn’t awkward or needy or nervous,...
- 4/16/2022
- by Patrick Smith
- The Independent - TV
“Am I normal? Am I interested in the right things? Do I do them the normal way?” Many people will ask these questions as they discover their sexuality, and in 2020 they are more likely than ever to find reassuring voices. Eighty years ago, however ,American biologist Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) would have answered with simply, “I don’t know”. He could have speculated, but Kinsey was a man of science. He could not conclusively answer such questions because American society knew very little beyond the social norm of “man plus woman equals baby”.
Kinsey sought to change this societal ignorance with his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the American Male, which was constructed using detailed, face-to-face interviews with over 5000 men across the United States. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female followed five years later, which applied a similar methodology to a sample of some 6000 women. But this is not where Kinsey,...
Kinsey sought to change this societal ignorance with his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the American Male, which was constructed using detailed, face-to-face interviews with over 5000 men across the United States. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female followed five years later, which applied a similar methodology to a sample of some 6000 women. But this is not where Kinsey,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A new documentary reworks the memoir of Bowers, who boasts he paired Cary Grant with Rock Hudson and Katharine Hepburn with 150 brunettes – and slept with so many actors he didn’t have time to see their films
Scotty Bowers was a 23-year-old petrol station attendant on Hollywood Boulevard when the actor Walter Pidgeon pulled up to the pump and asked the dimpled blond to jump in his Lincoln. It would be the ride of his life. Pidgeon was gay, claims Bowers in his autobiography Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, and that afternoon they became lovers. Bowers himself transcended labels. Years later, he startled sexologist Dr Alfred Kinsey by checking off every sex act on his list (and took him to orgies to prove it). Guys, girls, spouses, kings, consorts – and a three-way with Ava Gardner and Lana Turner. Bowers had done it all.
Scotty Bowers was a 23-year-old petrol station attendant on Hollywood Boulevard when the actor Walter Pidgeon pulled up to the pump and asked the dimpled blond to jump in his Lincoln. It would be the ride of his life. Pidgeon was gay, claims Bowers in his autobiography Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, and that afternoon they became lovers. Bowers himself transcended labels. Years later, he startled sexologist Dr Alfred Kinsey by checking off every sex act on his list (and took him to orgies to prove it). Guys, girls, spouses, kings, consorts – and a three-way with Ava Gardner and Lana Turner. Bowers had done it all.
- 8/3/2018
- by Amy Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Talk to Scotty Bowers, and he’ll tell you that he banged and/or blew every major star of Hollywood’s Golden Age. (The 95-year-old is likely to use a more salty, colorful phrase that rhymes.) Bette Davis? Yup, he slept with her. Walter Pidgeon? That character actor used the old “come take a dip in my mansion’s pool” line on him; so, for that matter, did director George Cukor. Spencer Tracy? They used to hook up when Spence was drunk, so Bowers supplied Kate Hepburn with a stable of young,...
- 7/27/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Was he just a sexual outlaw or an underground hero? Was his mission simply to defy the cops or to extend help to a persecuted minority?
Those questions may be debated by some next week with the theatrical release of Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Set in the 1950s and early ’60s when blacklists, both sexual and political, darkened the Hollywood landscape, the doc’s focus seems relevant to today’s zeitgeist, when the blacklist pathology is again in the air.
A World War II veteran, Scotty Bowers serviced celebrities of his era amid an iron-clad code of silence and an absence of moral judgment. Even as the vice squad crashed gay bars and parties to make arrests, and Confidential Magazine extorted A-list actors, Scotty quietly continued expanding his secret web of introductions.
Working with clients ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
Those questions may be debated by some next week with the theatrical release of Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Set in the 1950s and early ’60s when blacklists, both sexual and political, darkened the Hollywood landscape, the doc’s focus seems relevant to today’s zeitgeist, when the blacklist pathology is again in the air.
A World War II veteran, Scotty Bowers serviced celebrities of his era amid an iron-clad code of silence and an absence of moral judgment. Even as the vice squad crashed gay bars and parties to make arrests, and Confidential Magazine extorted A-list actors, Scotty quietly continued expanding his secret web of introductions.
Working with clients ranging from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
- 7/19/2018
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
“I felt good that I made so many people happy,” says caterer to the stars Scotty Bowers in this new trailer for Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood.
And as you might infer from the film’s title, Bowers wasn’t your typical caterer. Based on the memoir Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, the cinema-vérité documentary profiles the man who says he connected some of Hollywood’s Golden Age greats with sexual partners of their choice, gay, straight or both.
“People wanted something, Scotty would get it,” as one of the Cannes doc’s interviewees puts it. Those people, Bowers says, included Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Rock Hudson, Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, to name a select few.
The synopsis: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers,...
And as you might infer from the film’s title, Bowers wasn’t your typical caterer. Based on the memoir Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars, the cinema-vérité documentary profiles the man who says he connected some of Hollywood’s Golden Age greats with sexual partners of their choice, gay, straight or both.
“People wanted something, Scotty would get it,” as one of the Cannes doc’s interviewees puts it. Those people, Bowers says, included Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Rock Hudson, Spencer Tracy, Cole Porter, to name a select few.
The synopsis: Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers,...
- 6/14/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Liam Neeson’s recent film release “The Commuter” opened this month to a somewhat strong box office but has not fared as well with reactions, receiving only a 58% approval rating from critics and a 49% approval rating from audiences. While this latest film will probably not be remembered as one of Neeson’s best, the actor has an esteemed film resume that he has cultivated in his nearly 40-year career.
Born in Northern Ireland, the actor started in the Irish theater before embarking on a film career. He had a small role in the stylish 1981 King Arthur film called “Excalibur” which quickly provided him roles in other films and on television. Neeson struggled a bit in his early days to find substantial roles and was often cast based on his good looks and imposing physical appearance. Gradually he began to establish himself as a serious actor worthy of deeper roles.
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Born in Northern Ireland, the actor started in the Irish theater before embarking on a film career. He had a small role in the stylish 1981 King Arthur film called “Excalibur” which quickly provided him roles in other films and on television. Neeson struggled a bit in his early days to find substantial roles and was often cast based on his good looks and imposing physical appearance. Gradually he began to establish himself as a serious actor worthy of deeper roles.
SEESteven...
- 1/31/2018
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Kinsey director Bill Condon has beaten out competition from Clint Eastwood to walk away with the prestigious International Film Prize at the Directors Guild Of Great Britain awards last night. Condon's biopic about sex scientist Alfred Kinsey took home the top prize, leaving the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby empty-handed. Kinsey also beat Martin Scorsese's The Aviator and Mike Leigh's Vera Drake to the award. British American Beauty director Sam Mendes was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the second annual London event, despite being only 39. A modest Mendes said, "I feel very undeserving. I feel the award is a bank loan, which I'll take out and pay back by the end of 20 years, and by then I'll feel more deserving." Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries won Best Foreign Language Film, while Paul Pavlikovsky's My Summer Of Love and Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes shared the Best British Film award.
- 3/21/2005
- WENN
Kinsey, which stars Liam Neeson as the pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, is set to close the Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 10-20, sources have confirmed. The Fox Searchlight release will be well at home in the German capital, whose long-standing liberal attitudes toward sexuality have long been reflected in the festival lineup. The move was confirmed Friday. Other titles expected to unspool on Potsdamer Platz during the 10-day event include the Will Smith comedy Hitch, which will screen out of competition. Stars Smith and Eva Mendes also are expected to attend. Other high-profile U.S. productions in competition this year include Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda. As previously announced, French helmer Regis Wargnier's Man to Man will open the festival, while German director Roland Emmerich will preside over the jury. Emmerich's debut film Das Arche Noah Prinzip debuted at Berlin in 1984.
- 1/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kinsey, which stars Liam Neeson as the pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, is set to close the Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 10-20, sources have confirmed. The Fox Searchlight release will be well at home in the German capital, whose long-standing liberal attitudes toward sexuality have long been reflected in the festival lineup. The move was confirmed Friday. Other titles expected to unspool on Potsdamer Platz during the 10-day event include the Will Smith comedy Hitch, which will screen out of competition. Stars Smith and Eva Mendes also are expected to attend. Other high-profile U.S. productions in competition this year include Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda. As previously announced, French helmer Regis Wargnier's Man to Man will open the festival, while German director Roland Emmerich will preside over the jury. Emmerich's debut film Das Arche Noah Prinzip debuted at Berlin in 1984.
- 1/17/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Northern Ireland native Liam Neeson is set to take star in another biopic - as celebrated American President Abraham Lincoln. The actor is currently in talks with director Steven Spielberg to take on the lead role in the film, which will follow the US leader as he guides the North to victory in the Civil War. Spielberg, currently working on War Of The Worlds with Tom Cruise, has expressed a desire to make a movie about Lincoln since 2001, when the rights to the upcoming biography The Uniter: The Genius Of Abraham Lincoln were bought by Dreamworks. Neeson, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in the controversial film Kinsey, earned an Oscar nomination for playing Oskar Schindler in Spielberg's Schindler's List.
- 1/17/2005
- WENN
Lifting a glass of vintage pinot noir in a celebratory toast, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. on Saturday hailed Fox Searchlight's Sideways as its favorite film of the year. Alexander Payne's sad and funny but always sagacious coming-of-middle-age tale about the misadventures of two male friends in California wine country was voted best picture of 2004. The film collected five awards, including Virginia Madsen and Thomas Hayden Church as best supporting actress and best supporting actor. Payne, who two years ago claimed the L.A. Film Critics' best picture prize for About Schmidt, was honored as best director and shared the best screenplay award with his longtime collaborator, Jim Taylor, for their adaptation of a novel by Rex Pickett. The critics chose Liam Neeson as best actor for his performance as the redoubtable sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in Bill Condon's biopic Kinsey. The runner-up was Paul Giamatti from Sideways. Imelda Staunton was named best actress for the role as a working-class mum and backroom abortionist in 1950s Britain in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake. Julie Delpy came in second in voting for Before Sunset.
- 12/12/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Road trip comedy Sideways triumphed on both of America's coastlines on Saturday, when it was named Best Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film picked up five awards at the Californian critics' awards, including Best Director for Alexander Payne; Best Supporting Actor for Thomas Haden Church; Best Supporting Actress for Virginia Madsen; and Best Screenplay for Payne and Jim Taylor. Imelda Staunton had a very successful day - besides picking up Best Actress from the Los Angeles critics, she was also honored in the same category in New York and at the European Film Awards for her starring role in Vera Drake. Meanwhile Liam Neeson was named Best Actor for his portrayal of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in controversial biopic Kinsey. Other winners on the night included House Of Flying Daggers as Best Foreign-language film, The Incredibles for Best Animation and Best Music Score and Collateral for Cinematography. Entertainment veteran Jerry Lewis was recognized for his Career Achievement.
- 12/12/2004
- WENN
Miramax Films' Finding Neverland, a study of playwright J.M. Barrie and his inspiration for creating Peter Pan, was named best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review. The New York-based nonprofit, composed of film professionals, educators and historians, hailed Jamie Foxx as best actor for his performance as Ray Charles in Ray and Annette Bening as best actress for her portrayal of a stage diva in Being Julia. The supporting actor kudos went to Thomas Haden Church, who plays a man enjoying one last bachelor romp before his wedding in Sideways, and Laura Linney, who plays sex researcher Alfred Kinsey's supportive wife in Kinsey. Closer, director Mike Nichols' drama about two intertwined couples, won an award for best acting by an ensemble. Michael Mann was named best director for his moody and noirish thriller Collateral. In citing the year's top 10 films, in descending order, the group listed Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral and Hotel Rwanda.
- 12/2/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Miramax Films' Finding Neverland, a study of playwright J.M. Barrie and his inspiration for creating Peter Pan, was named best film of the year Wednesday by the National Board of Review. The New York-based nonprofit, composed of film professionals, educators and historians, hailed Jamie Foxx as best actor for his performance as Ray Charles in Ray and Annette Bening as best actress for her portrayal of a stage diva in Being Julia. The supporting actor kudos went to Thomas Haden Church, who plays a man enjoying one last bachelor romp before his wedding in Sideways, and Laura Linney, who plays sex researcher Alfred Kinsey's supportive wife in Kinsey. Closer, director Mike Nichols' drama about two intertwined couples, won an award for best acting by an ensemble. Michael Mann was named best director for his moody and noirish thriller Collateral. In citing the year's top 10 films, in descending order, the group listed Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral and Hotel Rwanda.
- 12/2/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scent Of A Woman star Chris O'Donnell will join Liam Neeson in the upcoming movie Kinsey, about sex research pioneer Dr. Alfred Kinsey. O'Donnell has taken on the role of psychologist and sex researcher Wardell Pomeroy in Kinsey, which is currently filming. Neeson and a film team recently visited Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to view its sex research and get acquainted with the Bloomington area, including the Elm Heights house where Kinsey and his family lived. The film, which is expected to be released next year, also stars Laura Linney as Kinsey's wife Clara. Kinsey collected histories of people's sex lives and published his findings in two groundbreaking and controversial books Sexual Behavior In The Human Male in 1947 and Sexual Behavior In The Human Female in 1953.
- 6/11/2003
- WENN
Actor Liam Neeson is researching sex research pioneer Alfred Kinsey - in preparation for his next movie role. Neeson and a film team visited Indiana University's Kinsey Institute this week to view its sex research and get acquainted with the Bloomington area, including the Elm Heights house where Kinsey and his family lived. The trip is part of the team's preparations for a film on Kinsey which is expected to be released next year, with Laura Linney playing Kinsey's wife Clara. Kinsey collected histories of people's sex lives and published his findings in two groundbreaking and controversial books Sexual Behavior In The Human Male in 1947 and Sexual Behavior In The Human Female in 1953.
- 6/6/2003
- WENN
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