June’s Filmmaker of the Month: Gregg Araki

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June’s Filmmaker of the Month: Gregg Araki

The New Queer Cinema raconteur gets our focus for this year's Pride Month.

“My Own Private Idaho” searches for queer freedom

Gus Van Sant's 1991 queer classic is a mournful tone poem about lost youth, and the intersection between class and queerness.

Features

“Young Soul Rebels” is an essential piece of Black Queer Resistance

Isaac Julien's British coming-of-age drama centers Black and Queer people in all their complexities.

Unraveling pop-culture one thread at a time

The Spool is an irreverent, informative source for film and television coverage, focused on diverse, thoughtful opinions that seek out a greater understanding of the media we love.

Features

Amor Vincit Omnia: The Radical Sentimentality of “Sense8”

The Wachowskis took their high-concept empathy to TV with a gloriously ambitious Netflix show that was gone far too soon.

Interviews

AIDS Activists Guy Vandenberg and Steve Williams Talk About the Plague Years and “5B”

I sit down with two subjects from the upcoming AIDS documentary 5B to talk about Pride and the plague years.

Features

June’s Filmmakers of the Month: Lana and Lilly Wachowski

For June, we celebrate Pride Month by diving into the filmography of cinema's most prominent transgender filmmakers.

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