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Jon Davies

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TIFF lands João Pedro Rodrigues retrospective

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Fighting brute repression with subtle intelligence

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Film review: Brüno is messy, perverted & brilliant

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Bruce LaBruce fucks up the bourgeoisie

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Terence Davies: Savagery, slums & cinema magic

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High artifice & raw performances
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High artifice & raw performances

The psychosexual dramas of Luchino Visconti

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FLicKeR: Brion Gysin documentary
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Drawing blood: Artist Daniel Barrow

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A scathing sex lib satire

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Deviant wishes: John Waters

Homo for the holidays with St Dick

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On screen: Barbara Hammer

Breathing life into phantoms, fashioning art into resistance

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Film review: Jack Smith And The Lost World Of Atlantis

A utopia of the imagination for bohemians & libertines

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Art essay: Steve Reinke’s ruthless untruths

Deeply unsettling & uncertain

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Youthful experimentation

Love, lust and longing in an all-boys school

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