"I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart," says playwright Terrence McNally.
W. Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel "Theatre" has been adapted several times for pictures. It's the basis for the dazzling 2004 film "Being Julia," starring an incandescent Annette Bening.
At 132 minutes, Christophe Honore's new film "Sorry Angel" is a bit long. The slow-moving drama, well-acted and beautifully filmed, would play a lot better if it were shorter. Some of the scenes ramble on.
In their heyday (1982-2000), the sophisticated, independent gay personal-professional partnership of Ivory & Merchant was the most successful team in adapting literary classics to film, especially E.M. Forster and Henry James.
Marlon Brando, considered by many to be the greatest film actor of all time, was in a bit of a career slump when he agreed to play the lead in 1971's "The Nightcomers."
Andre Leon Talley is the genial, flamboyant subject of the new documentary "The Gospel According to Andre," released on DVD by Magnolia Home Entertainment.
The new DVD "Antonio Lopez 1970 Sex Fashion and Disco," just released by Film Movement, is a warm, sensual time capsule about the early 70s through the eyes of Antonio Lopez.
"The Gospel of Eureka," a new documentary by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, is the perfect antidote to the divisiveness being inflamed by the current administration.
"Some Like It Hot" (1959), a fast-paced tale of murderous gangsters, transvestism, impotence, and sexual fluidity, has just been released in a superb Criterion DVD.
