Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport.[1] It shows clips from Rock Hudson's films that could be interpreted as gay entendres.[2][3]
| Rock Hudson's Home Movies | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mark Rappaport |
| Written by | Mark Rappaport |
| Produced by | Coleen Fitzgibbon Mark Rappaport |
| Cinematography | Mark Daniels |
| Edited by | Mark Rappaport |
Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Summary
editEric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen.[4][5][6] First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall.[7][8][9]
Analysis
editNext, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
- ^ "Trailer on REVOIRVIDEO YouTube channel". YouTube. 5 November 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
- ^ The New Yorker
- ^ Wexner Center for the Arts
- ^ Chicago Reader
- ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies | The Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. 2 March 2011.
- ^ Rock Hudson's Home Movies. August 25, 2018. OCLC 1035090192 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "Rock Hudson's Home Movies". Time Out London. 10 September 2012.
- ^ Labuza, Peter (June 16, 2014). "'Rock Hudson's Home Movies' Hits Criterion: Seeking the Hidden In the Evident".
External links
edit- Rock Hudson's Home Movies at IMDb
- Fandor Archived 2021-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
- MUBI