Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist living in Toronto. Instagram: @brucelabruce
Toronto, Canada
Joined August 2008
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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 @facetschicago
Tix:
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The divine Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), muse of John Waters, was BOTD in 1945 & died in 1988 at 42. "Multiple Maniacs" (1970) is my fave Waters film (it's also Waters' fave film of his own), along w/ "Mondo Trash" (1969), but all his movies starring Divine are masterpieces!
Tony Lo Bianco, known for William Friedkin's "The French Connection" (1971) & Larry Cohen's "God Told Me Too" (1976), was BOTD in 1936 & died in 2024 at 87. I wrote about one of his best films, Leonard Kastle's "The Honeymoon Killers" (1970) 4 @Talkhouse:
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Gay Robert Reed, squeaky-clean Dad on "The Brady Bunch", was BOTD in 1932 & died in 1992 at 59 of complications from AIDS. As if to purge himself of the bromidic Brady image, a year after the show ended he played a surgeon who has "gender reassignment surgery" on Medical Center
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"LaBruce leaves no taboo unshattered in his outrageously subversive, unabashedly kinky film provocations"
My @Criterion closet picks:
MOUCHETTE
SORCERER
SIMON OF THE DESERT
3 WOMEN
A TASTE OF HONEY
DON'T LOOK NOW
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3 of my films now on @criterionchannl
George C. Scott was BOTD in 1927 & died in 1999 at 71. One of the great faces of cinema, he gave many fine performances such as his sexy surgeons in Richard Lester's "Petulia" (1968) opposite mod Julie Christie & in Arthur Hiller's "The Hospital" (1971) opposite hippy Diana Rigg
Klaus Kinski was BOTD in 1926 & died in 1991 at 65. Best known for starring in 5 films by Werner Herzog between 1972 & 1987, his oldest daughter, Pola, Nastassja's half-sister, declared in 2013 that the actor repeatedly raped her over a 14-yr period. Nastassja supported her claim
Effervescent yet arch Miriam Hopkins was BOTD in 1902 & died in 1972 at 69. It wasn't Crawford with whom Bette Davis had her most major feud, but Hopkins (her nickname for her was "Hoppy"). They co-starred in Goulding's "The Old Maid" (1939) & Sherman's "Old Acquaintance" (1943)
Great Cannuck actor Margot Kidder was BOTD in 1948 & died in 2018 at 69. She struggled w/ her mental health, suffering a very public breakdown in 1996 when she disappeared for some days and was eventually found houseless in LA. She later became an outspoken mental-health advocate
Sapphic Traffic! Hollywood star Jean Arthur was BOTD in 1900 & died in 1991 at 90. The husky-voiced screwball comedy queen's sexuality was famously ambiguous. She co-starred with sexually ambiguous Marlene Dietrich in Wilder's "A Foreign Affair" (1948) and they loathed each other
"The Love Goddess" Rita Hayworth, who Madonna said "gave good face," was BOTD in 1918 & died in 1987 at 68. Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, she was transformed into a Hollywood sex goddess by dyeing her hair, having painful electrolysis to raise her hairline & Anglicizing her name
Tragic gay Hollywood star Montgomery Clift was BOTD in 1920 & died in 1966 at 45. At his most gorgeous in Howard Hawks' "Red River" (1948) & George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" (1951) opposite his bestie, Elizabeth Taylor, a bad car crash in 1956 altered his face and his career
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John Boorman's DELIVERANCE • Coming to Criterion in January! criterion.com/films/34864-de…
The ultimate odyssey into the untamed wilderness of the supposedly civilized heart, Boorman’s shock to the pop-culture consciousness follows four friends from Atlanta—played by Burt Reynolds (in his breakthrough role), Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox—on a weekend canoeing trip in rural Georgia.
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How did SNL turn Tucker Carlson’s reaction to the Met Gala into a comedy sketch?
The answer is more interesting than simply putting on a wig and imitating a politician.
Behind the jokes is a carefully built character, a recognizable speaking style, and a very specific target
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Manu Rios wears #PradaSS23 in a recent issue of Dust Magazine. The editorial was photographed by Bruce LaBruce and styled by Marc Forne.
#PradaEditorials
Godfather of the queercore movement that challenged respectability politics w/ punk defiance, Bruce LaBruce leaves no taboo unshattered in his outrageously subversive, unabashedly kinky cinematic provocations criterionchannel.com/collect…
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Bruce LaBruce has spent his career between punk and art cinema, pornography and politics. Now he’s getting a ten-film retrospective, a Criterion Channel run, and an IFC double feature. He talks to friend Slava Mogutin about censorship and what still pisses them off.
ICUMI! Everyone Wants a Piece of Bruce LaBruce interviewmagazine.com/film/b… via @Interview Magazine
"LaBruce says "L.A. Zombie" presents the inverse of an AIDS metaphor, with sex and bodily fluids giving life rather than ending it. Overall the film just looks beautiful w/ skilled monster makeup & prosthetics & sublime cinematography"
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