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Queer art has never been more visible or powerful. As the Frameline47 tagline appropriately reminds us, “see and be scene.”

The Portuguese filmmaker subverts art, machismo and more with full frontal male nudity and fully choreographed musical numbers.

Or, at least, he kinda-sorta tries to rebel in this romantic, futuristic fable from the Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues.

This movie has everything: locker room wrestling, balletic dance routines, sexually charged chest compressions...

João Pedro Rodrigues' "Will O' the Wisp" opens May 26 from Strand Releasing.

The twenty-city “John Waters Christmas Show” tour began November 29 in San Francisco.1PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle Adjani soon follows. My God, it’s jus...

It takes two: the Portuguese auteur discusses how his latest, an innuendo-filled sci-fi musical fantasy, parlays past injustices and present-day anxieties into a euphoric vision of the future

This year’s Toronto Film Festival is full of African, Caribbean, African-American, and Afro-Canadian star power, and we’ve compiled a list of everything you should have on your radar for TIFF 2022.

31/05/2022 - CANNES 2022: Portuguese filmmaker Joāo Pedro Rodrigues’ latest effort is a queer musical-fantasy about a dying king, set suggestively in the year 2069