Episode 44: That Certain Summer (1972)

The Boy in the Wind was called Brazil's first gay film. A teen vanishes. A witness has a supernatural explanation. Filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen managed to sneak a queer, political allegory past Brazil's strict censors. We unpack it here. 

A closeted doctor has an affair with a man. Should he tell his wife? Critics dismissed Making Love as boring. My guests gave me a new appreciation for the film.

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar was a commercial hit in 1995. Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo play a trio of drag queens stranded in a small town. My guests and I ask: who is the protagonist and what is their journey?  This episode contains profanity. Trigger warni…

2014’s Xenia follows two Greek-Albanian brothers on a search of the father who abandoned them. Filmmaker Panos H. Koutras uses the story to examine the treatment of immigrants and minorities in contemporary Greece.