Flamboyant Quentin Crisp is the indelible thorn in the side of conservative England in this 1975 award-winning film based on Crisp’s autobiography of the same name. The Naked Civil Servant ... [+]

Flamboyant Quentin Crisp is the indelible thorn in the side of conservative England in this 1975 award-winning film based on Crisp’s autobiography of the same name. The Naked Civil Servant reshaped the modern image of homosexuality and inspired this year’s Crispian offering, An Englishman in New York. This dramatization of Quentin's first volume of autobiography won BAFTAs for its director Jack Gold and its star. John Hurt gives a dazzling performance as the young Quentin, a flame-haired flamboyant homosexual when such things were not permitted. It contains much of the wit and wisdom of Quentin and celebrates a life lived in a refusal to conform. The highlight is Quentin's impassioned speech from the dock when charged with soliciting for an immoral purpose – he reminisces over a night of perfect happiness and declares himself one of the “stately homos” of England. [-]

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In Maria Beatty’s feature film, Bandaged, the terror of biological family meets the lust of unmitigated lesbian desire, and both become unhinged. Another Gothic day in a dreary mansion in ... [+]

In Maria Beatty’s feature film, Bandaged, the terror of biological family meets the lust of unmitigated lesbian desire, and both become unhinged. Another Gothic day in a dreary mansion in the middle of a forest. On the precipice of her 18th birthday, home-schooled Lucille (Janna Lisa Dumbrowsky) is feeling helpless and hopeless. Her father, sinister and stifling plastic surgeon Arthur (Hans Piesbergen), insists on the primacy of calculus as opposed to Oscar Wilde and Rimbaud. Lucille survives a horrific misadventure involving sulphuric acid and suicide – her beauty in tatters, bandaged tightly. After treating Lucille at home, Arthur hires Joan (Susanne Sachse), a ravishing nurse with a compromised history – and comfortable with Arthur’s cutting-edge science. As Lucille heals, she discovers comfort and tenderness in the sterile ministrations of attentive Joan, and the fury of their passion unfurls itself as the bandages unwind... Eyes Without a Face and Mädchen in Uniform get a little Nip/Tuck. Ably produced by Abel Ferrara, Beatty’s brother-in-porn, Bandaged is bound to captivate the uninitiated with its painstaking detail, patient and possessive cinematography, lavish post-production values and Michael Karlsson’s elegant score. Add to this a pinch of exploitation, manipulation, excess and estrangement, and you’ve got a sense of the sexually charged vignettes that make up this highly seductive (horror) film. [-]