“I saved Latin! What did you ever do?"

“Its queerness is arguably incidental but also deeply consequential to the film’s plot, not unlike Barbra Streisand’s 1983 period drama YENTL.” — Caden Mark Gardner, on the rediscovery of Virgina (1991), a lost film tackling the complexities of gender expression in the Balkans.

AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu, 1962).

SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker, 1983). 🍂

“In the performance that made him momentarily a superstar, he is a self-interested hero—once again at the mercy of a charismatic kook, once again embedded in a plot rife with homosexual subtext.” —@spunky_hunk on Farley Granger in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, playing @Metrograph.