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10 Jul 2011
This creepy 1965 thriller knocked me off my socks when I caught a rare NYC screening of it a few years back. It's incredibly ahead of its time: Its exploration of underside of the swinging 60s, replete with amazing location shots of a very seedy-looking Times Square presage later films like Taxi Driver and Hardcore. And with one overtly gay character -- Elaine Stritch (!) as an aggressive dyke nightclub owner who puts the make on poor little lady DJ (!) Juliet Prowse -- and one who is, shall we say, sexually ambiguous -- Sal Mineo, at his most gorgeous, as a possibly psycho busboy who also has a yen for the bored Juliet, it went farther than Hollywood would dare to tread down the lavender path for decades to come.
Here's Sal's torso in a title sequence which must have been jaw-droppingly explicit for the time:
And here he is again in a weight-room/pool sequence which feels like the opening to a gay porn flick right up until he starts hitting up on Juliet:
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10 Jul 2011
Central Park gets all the attention, but NYC is full of lovely smaller green spots. One of my favorites, City Hall Park, plays host this summer to an outdoor retrospective exhibition of the works of master of minimalism and conceptualism Sol LeWitt. These pieces really work for me in a way that they would not in a white box gallery: Nestled among the greenery, the stark white ‘open cubes' remind me of 70s sci-fi flicks like Rollerball and Logan's Run which used the minimalist aesthetic to evoke the future, and the candy-colored melty mountains just make me smile.
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