The birth of "new queer cinema": March 10, 1992.Sometimes good things conic in waves. That's the case with a batch of independent queer films covered in the current issue of The Advocate. But it's far from the first big wave. Thirteen years ago, then-Advocate film critic David Ehrenstein David Ehrenstein (born February 18, 1947, in New York City) is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema. His father was a secular Jew with Polish ancestors, and his mother was of African American and white Irish descenthttp://www.laweekly. reported on the "new queer cinema" that exploded ex·plode v. ex·plod·ed, ex·plod·ing, ex·plodes v.intr. 1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: onto screens in the early 1990s. In 1991, Todd Haynes's Poison and Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning walked away with top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. And in 1992, Ehrenstein talked about the "ongoing gay and lesbian mollie mollie or molly, New World fish of the genus Mollienesia, in the same family as the guppy (see killifish). Mollies are found from the E and central United States to Argentina. revolution," including such films as Swoon, that was continuing to dominate the festival. Some of the mainstream press reacted with ambivalence ambivalence (ămbĭv`ələns), coexistence of two opposing drives, desires, feelings, or emotions toward the same person, object, or goal. The ambivalent person may be unaware of either of the opposing wishes. and even hostility. "A much-talked-about aspect of the [Sundance] program has some reveling in the explicitly gay content, while others found it excessive and inappropriate for a mainstream festival," wrote Amy Dawes in Daily Variety. |
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