Johan ha salido del armario a medias, trabaja en una sauna y vive atrapado en Grindr… hasta que conoce y se enamora de William, un hombre trans que acaba de empezar su transición.
“Sauna”, ya en Filmin.
Recuerdo cuando Glenn Close entregó el #Oscar honorífico a Deborah Kerr (después de 6 nominaciones) y pensar: a ella le podría pasar lo mismo. Era 1994 y ya acumulaba 5 candidaturas. Acumularía otras tres también sin éxito, hasta que este año la reconocen a ella. Menudo viaje.
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«Network» (1976) es una sombría profecía cumplida. El director Sidney Lumet y el guionista Paddy Chayefsky predijeron la TV-espectáculo, la rabia como producto, el informativo convertido en circo. Hoy el "I'm mad as hell" no es protesta sino contenido. El fin del pensamiento⬇️
Gina Gershon explains why she didn't like Paul Verhoeven's "Showgirls" (1995) at first, but learnt to appreciate it over the years:
"I couldn't watch "Showgirls" (1995) for years 'cause I was like, I was too, a little bit of PTSD, I think, in a very slight way, no disrespect to real PTSD, but I would get very tense and anxious when I thought about certain things and stories, and so I never really watched it again, and I would kind of use the excuse of like, 'Well,' and it was a real excuse, like, 'I can't deal with my accent, 'cause I had to lie about my accent.
I thought the movie would be closer to one of [Verhoeven's] Dutch films, which are a little bit seedier, a little bit darker, and I think his American films, now that I've kind of studied it and I've stepped out of it, I mean, they're really interesting comments on America and fascism.
Going 30 years later, 25 years later, a friend of mine, a writer friend, she said, 'No, you don't understand how great Showgirls is.' I'm like, 'I guess I really don't,' but when I saw it from afar, not being in it, and all of a sudden I'm like, 'Oh my god.' It was really a comment on ugly America and on capitalism and power struggles and dynamics and all those things. That r*** scene has to be there. It's the grossest thing in there and the powerful men, they're all protected and, you know, so that's why it's exciting when she kicks the guy's a$$.
I thought it was gonna be a different movie than it was, but you know what? It's also an interesting lesson in, you know, when you get to the set or any situation really, you know, in your mind, you think what it is, but when you go there and it's not, then you have to assess and... You gotta make it make sense, but then I just changed my approach to the whole character, so that was kind of interesting. It was a good lesson."
("Gina Gershon Says Watching Her Performance in Showgirls Left Her Feeling 'Tense and Anxious': 'Like a Little Bit of PTSD'", Virginia Chamlee, People, 2026)
P.S: Happy 64th birthday, Gina Gershon!
This is hard because I believe Glenn Close should’ve won in 1988 for her role as
Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaison.
But for me, it’s very clear cut that she was robbed in 2017 for her role as Joan Castleman in The Wife.
Antes y después del que es su filme más conocido (La caja de Pandora) la cámara de Pabst puede considerarse como uno de los objetos con más músculo en el desempeño de desplegar historias llenas de recursos inteligentes. Un buen ejemplo es "Crisis" (1928), con Brigitte Helm.
Pedro Almodóvar explicando cómo Penélope Cruz en “Volver” a pesar de ser una ama de casa con problemas económicos, le puso dolce&gabbana y marc jacobs xq ayudaba a caracterizar mejor al personaje. tan simple, no se de donde salió q cuestionen el uso de diseñadores para vestuarios
'Paris Is Burning', the cult documentary directed by Jennie Livingston, premiered on this day in 1990.
The film was an exploration of life in the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community in New York in the late ’80s, but it was also something deeper: a testament to identity, resistance, and beauty in a world that insisted on making these voices invisible.