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Tom of Finland screened at the Tribeca this past spring, where I did not review it - if I had I would've mostly shrugged; for a subject as outré as this the movie really needed to be more daring and, well, horny. The movie is really straightforward and weirdly chaste. But the actors are good, and it's a curious tale obviously, so you might like it more than I did. It's out in New York on October 13th and it rolls out from there; it's actually Finland's submission for the Oscars so perhaps we'll hear more about it through awards season.
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Next up and also out of Tribeca is the movie Thirst Street from director Nathan Silver, which I did review - you can read my thoughts on it right here. I liked it quite a bit, comparing it to Rainer Werner Fassbinder in particular - it's aggressively ugly at times, and its leading lady Lindsay Burdge (who I called "madly committed" in my review) is probably going to be off-putting to more than one viewer. But I dug it and I've thought of the movie often since seeing it back in May.
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And finally but best of the bunch is the terrific horror comedy Tragedy Girls, which I just reviewed from the Fantastic Fest back in August, and which is opening on October 20th just in time for your Halloween pleasure. The movie stars Junior X-Men Brianna Hildebrand (Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool) and Alexandra Shipp (Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse) as Mean Girls who take mean to previously unseen sadistic levels. See it!
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Thirst Street is out next Friday,
so keep your eyes peeled!
so keep your eyes peeled!
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And if you're here in NYC you can actually see it sooner, since it's screening at the Brooklyn Horror Fest on October 14th. If you're in NYC you should actually check out that fest's whole line-up - looks like they're showing some great stuff.
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Hi! Tom of Finland is barely worthy of your shrug, I'd call it insulting. And I feel like the "gay audience" here in Finland (lol my name is Tom btw) has pretty much rejected it for the reasons you mentioned. I feel like the film got funded mostly because they wanted to release it as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of our country's independence (hence the chaste attitude and mostly pointless war stuff that is too holy of a subject to be anything divisive even within straight stories) and it most definitely wasn't a subject matter that was meant for mainstream audiences or for straight men to handle; write and direct. Yuck.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead... man that's a great name...!
I disagree SLIGHTLY on Tom of Finland. A friend got a screener of it and a bunch of us watched it a couple of weeks back and while at first I was taken aback by its lack of explicitness, our host had a coffee-table book of all of Tom's work and reminded us all that it really wasn't until his later period that the drawings got explicitly sexual - most of it was just super masculine guys being lusty with other super masculine guys. Yes, the dicks were great, but the context the film gave to how radical those drawings were, how they interrogated traditional notions of masculinity, was interesting and important. The word I'd be more apt to describe it with than "chaste" is actually "staid" - it's not a very adventurous or energetic film. A bit more full-frontal nudity and some more brazen filmmaking choices would have added some much-needed excitement to the film. But I liked it a lot more than I didn't.
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