Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men – one of whom is the artist – tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.
Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is...
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A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs lea...
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man...
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A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is ...
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Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one ...
The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by mod...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.