PinnedBrandon JudellGender Fluidity, Turkish Delights, and Richard E. Grant Has a “Lesson” for You: Tribeca 2023Have you ever wondered why you and your compatriots worldwide are so obsessed with entertainment big and small? Pauline Kael in “Trash…·6 min read·Jun 24, 2023--1--1
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”: The “Worst” Title for a Great Little…If awards were handed out for the most impossibly difficult film title to remember, Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling that the Time for Doing…4 min read·2 days ago----
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!“Blue Like Jazz”: Beer vs. ChristGet ready for a new cinematic trope: Boy loses religion. Boy goes to weirdo college, sleeps beside a lesbian, and starts drinking beer·4 min read·4 days ago----
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!Rendez-Vous-ing with French Cinema at Lincoln Center: Egon Shiele, “My Mom’s an Animal!”I could never fathom why some folks in the past didn’t take to the French. I for one was already a Francophile by my late teens. Locale…·9 min read·Apr 1, 2024----
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!A “Norwegian [Queer] Dream” Gets Fishy in Yet Another Coming-Out TaleAs the closing credits of Norwegian Dream roll up the screen, Girl in Red sings forth in a gently loving voice:·3 min read·Mar 6, 2024----
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!“Disco Boy”: A ReviewWhy I Joined the French Foreign Legion in Search of Bordeaux4 min read·Feb 10, 2024--1--1
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!Gene Wilder, “Challah If You Knead Me,” and “Love Isn’t a Potato”: The 33rd New York Jewish Film…The 33rd New York Jewish Film Festival began January 10th and runs until the 24th. It will present a total of 28 features, documentaries…8 min read·Jan 19, 2024--1--1
Brandon JudellinAn Injustice!Traveling Back to “Gun Hill Road”: A Trans Teen’s “Survival” Guide(Last week I screened Gun Hill Road for my Queer Film and Theatre course, the rare offering back in 2011 featuring a lead character who was…·4 min read·Nov 13, 2023----
Brandon Judell“Bottoms,” Princes, Queens, and I Married a Dead Homosexual: The Splendid Overabundance of LGBTQI…A few weeks back, I was chatting with my well-off, ardently Republican, impenetrably heterosexual nephew in his souped-up Land Rover…7 min read·Sep 11, 2023----
Brandon JudellSweatshop Dolls, an Egoist, and a Cat-fished Trans: The New York Asian Film Festival Returns…Fortunately, once again, in fact for the 22nd time, NYAFF is supplying a solid, cultural one-two punch to the jaw of rampant bigotry…·6 min read·Jul 26, 2023----