Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrators, who included gay and lesbian supporters as well as the feminist group Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW), waved banners and placards and urged passersby not to patronize the film...
Benjamin H. Schatz '81, coordinator of Gays Organized to Oppose Discrimination (GOOD) and organizer of the Harvard protesters attending the rally, said he was angry at the images Hollywood uses to protray gays. "We want the film makers to know that the false and dangerous ideas they are perpetrating will not go unopposed," he said...
...VERY THINGS that make jazz documentaries attractive to jazz fans can make them intolerable to anyone else. "Authentic footage" usually means endless sequences of grainy, incompetently-shot film and crackling, poorly-recorded sound; the phrase "candid interview" may warn of mumbled, half-unintelligible reminiscences of the dead and the hopelessly obscure. If the music and the musicians absolutely enchant you, then you can easily overlook all this, and even enjoy it, but if jazz only casually interests you, these distractions become boring and unforgiveable...
...Last of the Blue Devils, first-time director Bruce Ricker's movie about Kansas City jazzmen, gets around these limitations of jazz cinematography better than any film I have seen. Jazz purists may balk at the liberties Ricker has taken--solos are cropped from longer performances, music is cut up and excerpted, "vintage" Kansas City clips are few and far between--but they can't argue with his results. The entire film rushes along to Kansas City 4/4 time; a spare 91 minutes long, The Last of the Blue Devils is one sweet breath of Kansas City air, heady enough...
...GOOD are trying to present everyone with an opportunity to learn the truth about gay people from gay people. We are merely asking that everybody listen. And if anyone feels uncomfortable, embarrassed or hostile about attending a workshop or film, it's to be expected: at the moment people are given little other choice. But everyone does have the choice to overcome this awkwardness. They have the choice to realize that fear of (the label of) homosexuality stifles us all every day. It affects whether we wear boots or clogs, how we dance, and whom we dance with. It affected...