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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 2h

Coming in October!!! The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce is a 10-film retrospective curated by Raphael Martinez. This program at @facetschicago.bsky.social showcases the edge of queer punk underground cinema from October 9–11, 2026 FACETS Tix: facets.org/programs/the...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 3h

The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce, a 10-film retrospective curated by Raphael Martinez. This program at @facetschicago showcases LaBruce's work October 9–11, 2026 I will also be speaking at @DePaulU Tix: facets.org/programs/the... events.depaul.edu/event/filmma...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 3h

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Madeline Kahn was BOTD in 1942 & died in 1999 at 57. Although she played many memorable characters, I'm particularly fond of her turn as Eunice Burns in Peter Bogdanovich's "What's Up, Doc" ((1972), her feature film debut, & her Trixie Delight in Bogdanovich's "Paper Moon" (1973)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dazzling, throaty lesbian thespian movie star Lizabeth Scott was BOTD in 1922 & died in 2015 at 92. One of my fave classical Hollywood stars, she appeared w/ Martin & Lewis in Scared Stiff (1953) but is most associated w/ film noirs like Dead Reckoning (1947) & Pitfall (1948)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michelangelo Antonioni was BOTD in 1912 & died in 2007 at 94. The great Italian modernist filmmaker turned alienation & erotic ennui into a seductive cinematic language. His trilogy "L’Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961) & "L’Eclisse" (1962) starred his muse & lover Monica Vitti

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Diana Vreeland was BOTD in 1903 & died in 1989 at 85. The legendary fashion editor & professional eccentric spent 26 yrs at Harper’s Bazaar before becoming editor-in-chief of Vogue in 1963 where she defined the visual style of the Swinging 60's by championing Twiggy & Veruschka

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Caravaggio was BOTD in 1571 & died in 1610 at 38. Born Michelangelo Merisi, the Italian Baroque master revolutionized painting w/ his violently dramatic chiaroscuro, radical naturalism & habit of using hookers, hustlers & street people as models 4 saints, gods & biblical heroes

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3. The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce (Facets October 9-11) @facetschicago.bsky.social Canadian film firebrand Bruce LaBruce will appear w/ a 10 film retrospective of his politically charged explorations of the body www.newcityfilm.com/2026/09/29/f...

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Film Top 5: October 2026

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's eighth feature lands, the elder of all of Chicago’s long-lived film fests returns and more film highlights.

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

French heartthrob Pierre Clémenti was BOTD in 1942 & died in 1999 at 57. The handsome & sexy Clémenti, whose screen persona was sexually ambiguous, louche, and carnal, worked w/ great auteurs including Bunuel, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Garel, Cavani, Costa-Gavras, Rivette & Ivory

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reactionary blond sexbomb (Sidney Sweeney, anyone?) Brigitte Bardot was BOTD in 1934 & died in 2025 at 91. She became an extreme right wing racist homophobe, if an animal activist. Her husband/Svengali Roger Vadim's "And God Created Woman" (1956) made her an international star

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Marcello Mastroianni, one of my fave movie stars, was BOTD in 1924 & died in 1996 at 72. His 2 films w/ underrated Italian director Elio Petri, "The Tenth Victim" (1965) & "Todo Modo" (1976), are among his best & of course the 6 films he made w/ Fellini aren't too shabby either!

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fine Australian/British actor Peter Finch was BOTD in 1916 & died in 1977 at 60. He won a posthumous best actor Oscar for his prophetic performance as Howard Beale in Lumet's "Network" (1976)& famously played a gay Jewish doctor in Schlesinger's "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" (1971)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My first feature "No Skin Off My Ass" is playing Sun Oct 4th at the @ifccenter.bsky.social in NYC and I'll be doing a Q&A after! “Sweeter than Warhol, subtler than Kuchar, sexually more explicit than Van Sant...” - Amy Taubin The Village Voice Tickets: www.ifccenter.com/films/no-ski...

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IFC Center - No Skin Off My Ass

Sunday, October 4 at 6:00: Q&A with director Bruce LaBruce! New Digital Restoration! Bruce LaBruce on NO SKIN OFF MY ASS: “NO SKIN OFF MY ASS is my first feature, a low-budget, punk-porn remake of Rob...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My 2nd feature "Super 8 1/2" is playing on Sunday, Oct 4, 2026 8:15 PM at @ifccenter.bsky.social in NYC Extended intro by me! "Canadian Warholian auteur Bruce LaBruce has risen to a new plateau with this impudent "cautionary biopic" - Variety Tickets: tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pag...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sada Thompson was BOTD in 1927 & died in 2011 at 83. She played the ultra-mother on the 70's TV series "Family" w/ the great child actor Kristy MacNicol as her baby butch daughter Buddy. (Weirdly, both daughters on the show, MacNicol & Meredith Baxter, later came out as lesbians

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

USA director Arthur Penn was BOTD in 1922 & died in 2010 at 88. His second film, "The Miracle Worker" (1962), won Oscars for actors Anne Bancroft & Patty Duke. After "Mickey One" (1965), he reunited w/ Warren Beatty for the meta and mega gangster film Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Double-Header: 2 by Bruce LaBruce Sun, Oct 4, 2026 New Restorations! An evening w/ the punk queer pioneer with screenings of his debut NO SKIN OFF MY ASS Oct 4 6pm Q&A w/ the director & SUPER 8 1/2 Oct 4 8:15pm Intro by the director! www.ifccenter.com/series/doubl... @ifccenter.bsky.social

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Get your Bruce LaBruce jewels at www.brucelabrucejewelry.com @jonathanjohnson.bsky.social

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wonderful, tragic Catherine Burns was BOTD in 1945 & died in 2019 at 73. She wowed with her extraordinary monologue as Rhoda in Frank Perry's "Last Summer" (1969), a performance that earned her a supporting Oscar nod. I wrote about the movie at @Talkhouse: talkhouse.com/bruce-labruc...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Genius French auteur Robert Bresson was BOTD in 1901 and died in 1999 at the age of 98. He wrote and directed only 13 feature films in his career, and yet he has the highest number of films (seven) that made the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the 250 greatest films ever made

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

HBD brilliant Spanish cinema auteur Pedro Almodóvar who was BOTD in 1949, turning 77 today. The genesis of Almodovar’s complex world can be found in La Movida Madrilena, the oppositional ethos that arose in Spain after the demise of Franco and his fascist dictatorship in 1975

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tragic author F. Scott Fitzgerald was BOTD in 1896 & died in 1940 at 44. Quintessential chronicler of the Jazz Age, he wrote This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night & The Great Gatsby, which only became an American literary monument after his death. Messy marriage to Zelda!

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Zach Cregger's "Resident Evil" really is the best popcorn movie since Ridley Scott's "Aliens". I've haven't stuffed my face with so much popcorn in a long time. It really is the true Odyssey!

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This Oct, @facetschicago.bsky.social's acclaimed OPTICAL NOISE series presents The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce, the most comprehensive USA retrospective of filmmaker, writer, photog & Queercore pioneer Bruce LaBruce in more than a decade thevisualist.org?p=193957

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The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce - The Visualist

This October, FACETS’ acclaimed OPTICAL NOISE series presents The Revolution Is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce, the most comprehensive American retrospective of internationally acclaimed fil...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HBD HAF actor/director/writer Will Sharpe who was BOTD in 1986, turning 40 today. He really turned up the heat in the 2nd season of The White Lotus in 2022, but if you haven't seen "Flowers" (2016), the series he created & appeared in as a more demur, cerebral character, you must

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Danish-French star & Godard wife Anna Karina was BOTD in 1940 & died in 2019 at 79. Her 6 films w/ GLG: "Le Petit Soldat" (1963), "Une femme est une femme" (1961), "Vivre sa vie" (1962), "Bande à part" (1964), "Pierrot le Fou" (1965), "Alphaville" (1965) & "Made in U.S.A." (1966)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HBD Southern ginger lesbian thespian and writer Fannie Flagg who was BOTD in 1944, turning 82 today. Flagg was linked in the press (and falsely reported to have been married) to actor Dick Sargent, who, prior to his death in 1994, revealed he was gay. (They were mutual beards)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HBD Sophia Loren, BOTD in 1934, turning 92 today! Her Oscar-winning performance in Vittorio De Sica's powerful "Two Women" (1960) is a gut-wrenching portrayal of rape during war. Loren first met husband Carlo Ponti, producer of "Two Women," in 1950, when she was 15 and he was 37

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Welsh actress Rachel Roberts was BOTD in 1927 & died by suicide in 1980 at 53. A ferocious screen presence, she won BAFTAs for Karel Reisz's "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960) & Lindsay Anderson's "This Sporting Life" (1963), the latter also earning her an Oscar nom

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My fave poetess besides Sylvia Plath when I was a morbid youth at Uni was the wonderful Stevie Smith, BOTD in 1902, died in 1971 at 68. Although she had a couple of lesbian liaisons, she wasn't that into sex. Glenda Jackson plays her endearingly in Robert Enders" "Stevie" (1978)

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Delighted that Serville Poblete's lovely, poetic "Sunburn" was voted @tiffnet.bsky.social's best Canadian feature film, but I was equally enthralled by Denis Côté's brilliant "Nobody's Violence", two of the best films I saw at the fest. Runner-up: Québécois Rémi St-Michel's "Toy Gun Bandit"

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tragic Hollywood movie star Frances Farmer was BOTD in 1913& died in 1970 at the 56. She married actor Leif Erickson in 1936 after eloping to Arizona, but their passionate relationship quickly unravelled amid her rising fame, alcoholism, an affair with playwright Clifford Odets

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gay Jewish Liverpudlian Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967, was BOTD in 1934 and died of a booze and dolls overdose, deemed accidental, at the age of 32. Epstein's homosexuality was an open secret amongst friends and business associates

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

French novelist, screenwriter & actor Jean-Claude Carrière was BOTD in 1931 & died in 2021 at 89. He & Luis Buñuel collaborated on 6 films, including "The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoise" (1972) & "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977) & Buñuel’s 1982 autobiography My Last Sigh

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Goddess Greta Garbo was BOTD in 1905 & died in 1990 at 84. Once one of the most famous women du monde, the Swedish-American thespian & celesbian was, as one of her biographers described her, technically bisexual, predominantly lesbian & increasingly asexual as her life went on

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On @criterionchannl.bsky.social in October: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Marc Maron’s Adventures in Moviegoing, selections from the landmark box set The Complete Kubrick, transgressive cult faves from Bruce LaBruce & the anime series Terror in Resonance www.criterion.com/current/post... @criterion.bsky.social

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey Kids! @criterionchannl.bsky.social is featuring 3 of my movies in October: "Hustler White" (1996), "Otto; or, Up with Dead People" (2008) & "Gerontophilia" (2012). As a devout cinephile, I'm thrilled! Special thanks to Strand Releasing for helping to make this happen! @criterion.bsky.social

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the great child stars & Hollywood gays, although closeted, Roddy McDowall, was BOTD in 1928 & died in 1998 at 70. HIs obit in The NY Times finished with the bittersweet sentence "Mr. McDowall never married." p.s. It was rumoured that the actor was very well "Mcdowalled"

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HBD the magnificent Rossy de Palma, BOTD in 1964, turning 61 today! The singular Spanish actress & model works frequently w/ Almodovar. My photo book “The Revolution Is My Boyfriend" from Baron Books features this photo of Rossy! Order here: www.baronbooks.co.uk/product-page...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HBD the hot Greek-American gay dancer & actor George Chakiris who turns 94 today! Best known for his Oscar winning turn as Bernardo in "West Side Story" (1961), he's equally memorable in ambiguously gay director Jacques Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort" (1967

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The pioneering German photographer Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden, who shot portraits of local Sicilian boys at the end of the 19th century in the town of Taormina, Sicily, was BOTD in 1856 & died in 1931 at 74. In his controversial work he employed "the Grecian excuse"

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fab fashion designer & costumer Bob Mackie has died at 87. Mackie was married to a woman & had a son who died of AIDS at 33. After his divorce, Mackie's longtime companion was fellow costume designer Ray Aghayan, who died in 2011. Mackie was long-time costumer for Carol Burnett

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Coming in October!!! The Revolution is My Boyfriend: The Films of Bruce LaBruce is a 10-film retrospective curated by Raphael Martinez. This program at FACETS showcases the edge of queer punk underground cinema from October 9–11, 2026 FACETS Tix: facets.org/programs/the...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Queer artist, writer, photog & AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz was BOTD in 1954 & died in 1992 at 37. His paintings, films, photos & writings - including the incendiary memoir Close to the Knives - made him one of the fiercest c

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jacobo Arbenz, 2nd democratically elected President of Guatemala, was BOTD in 1913 & died in exile in Mexico City in 1971 at 57. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état deposed him, installing a military dictatorship, the 1st in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala

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