"LaBruce leaves no taboo unshattered in his outrageously subversive, unabashedly kinky film provocations"
My @Criterion closet picks:
MOUCHETTE
SORCERER
SIMON OF THE DESERT
3 WOMEN
A TASTE OF HONEY
DON'T LOOK NOW
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3 of my films now on @criterionchannl

"I like over-sexed people. I'm over-sexed." - Hedy LaMarr, who was BOTD in 1914 and died in 2000 at the age of 85

Absolutely original, entertaining, beautiful film! Loved it so much! It deserves the Criterion love!

Back in Toronto after my fantastic 10 film retrospective at @facetschicago curated by Raphael Martinez. What a wild ride! Here's @ebertchicago's @clintworthing's take on the whole lovely, sordid, and very well-attended affair!
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My movie "Gerontophilia" is on the @criterionchannl in October!
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@Criterion @strandreleasing

HBD great actress Parker Posey, BOTD in 1968, turning 58 today. The "Queen of the Indies" became one of the defining faces of 1990s indie cinema w/ Linklater's "Dazed & Confused" (1993), Araki's "The Doom Generation" (1995), Hartley's "Flirt" (1995) & Mayer's "Party Girl" (1995)

Handsome French movie star Alain Delon was BOTD in 1935 & died in 2024 at 88. Rumours about his bisexuality have circulated for decades. Two biographies published in 2024 revisited the subject. Delon moved in the homosexual & criminal demi-monde of postwar Paris before stardom

Retroactively reprehensible French actor Alain Delon was BOTD in 1935 & died in 2024 at 88. His screen persona was imbued w/ an intense narcissism, captured w/ sinister elegance in René Clément's "Plein Soleil" (1960). He exuded the same quality in Antonioni's "L'Eclisse" (1962)

Charismatically chilly French actress Stéphane Audran was BOTD in 1932 & died in 2018 at 85. She was married to Jean-Louis Trintignant & then to Claude Chabrol, who directed them both in his bisexual melodrama “Les Biches” (1968). Audran won the Silver Bear at Berlin for the role

I can't believe I missed the birth anniversary of the great Jonathan Harris, Dr. Smith himself, who was born on  November 6th in 1914 & died in 2002 at the age of 87. I regard Dr. Smith from the original “Lost in Space” (1965–68) as one of the most significant mentors in my life

HBD fellow Canuk Joni Mitchell, BOTD in 1943, turning 83 today! Quite influential for me as a teen, her 6 albums between 1971 & 1977 are amongst my all-time faves. Her people once sued me for a character in my movie "Hustler White" singing one of her lyrics, but I still love her

Leon Trotsky was BOTD in 1879 in what is now Ukraine & died in 1940 at 60. The Marxist revolutionary helped lead the October Revolution on his 38th B-day (Nov 7 by our calendar) & went on to build the Red Army & Trotskyism, a variant of Marxism. He also had a great head of hair!

Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus was BOTD in 1913 & died in a car crash in 1960 at 46. He wrote The Stranger, The Plague & The Myth of Sisyphus, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and somehow still found time to be an impressive adulterer

Leon Trotsky was BOTD in 1879 in what is now Ukraine & died in 1940 at 60. The Marxist revolutionary helped lead the October Revolution on his 38th B-day (Nov 7 by our calendar) & went on to build the Red Army & Trotskyism, a variant of Marxism. He also had a great head of hair!

20 years ago today.
THE BOYS WANNA BE HER was born!
This song changed my life.
Did it leave a mark on yours?

Sebastián Lelio, Chilean Director of Oscar-Winning ‘A Fantastic Woman,’ Dead at 52 indiewire.com/news/breaking-…

Dreamy Brad Davis was BOTD in 1949 & died of AIDS far too soon in 1991 at 41. He's best known for Alan Parker’s “Midnight Express” (1978) & Fassbinder’s final film, “Querelle” (1982) in which his sailor’s uniform, sculpted torso & insolent beauty made him an indelible gay fantasy

Prodigious film director Mike Nichols was BOTD in Berlin in 1931 & died in 2014 at 83. He first became famous w/ Elaine May as the sophisticated comedy duo “Nichols and May”. Lovers for 3 days, comic duo for four years. He allegedly had a ten-year affair with photog Dick Avedon

HBD irrepressible June Squibb, BOTD in 1929, turning 97 today! She made her Broadway debut opposite Ethel Merman in “Gypsy” (1959) and made her film debut at 60 in Woody Allen’s “Alice” (1990). She earned a Supporting Actress Oscar nom at 84 for Payne’s “Nebraska” (2013)

Sexy thirst-trap-ahead-of-his-time & Playgirl coverboy Jon-Erik Hexum was BOTD in 1957 & died tragically from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound on the set of his TV show “Cover Up” in 1984 at 26. He appeared in the TV movie “Making of a Male Model” (1983) w/ Joan Collins

HBD British actor Tilda Swinton, BOTD in 1960, turning 66 today. She began as the muse of the great gay director Derek Jarman, making her film debut in his “Caravaggio” (1986). Jarman, who died of AIDS in 1994 at 52, was outspoken about his HIV status and a fierce AIDS activist