SHORT MFA THESIS FILM BY JOAQUIN BALDWIN

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and there's "9".......also a Thesis Film...conceived and directed by Shane Acker.....

BUT DON'T WORRY......

 

there's always going to be someone like Lars Stefan to oil down and take the spotlight....and, a fine cameraman, he does his own photography.....
Lars invisions himself as Peter's suckcessor....why not? I wonder who's taking over
Madonna's old job.....

AGEING NARCISSIST

 

peter berlin, now, at 66....

PETER BERLIN

 

I met Peter at a party 40 years ago....he was the hot, gay photoshoot/sexfilm star, then....Now, one could pass him on the streets of San Francisco and notice the attractive, older man that Peter still is....now, as aways, a year or two older than I....getting his social security checks every month and wearing the faded denim jacket that once hung from his flawless frame almost a half century before......a paradigm for gay porno, for sure......

family role models

THE UNITED STATES OF TARA is another paradigm shift for quirky family role models for gays...... the characters all seem like people I would know and love........even Tara.....I certainly could have benefited from this video at Marshall's age...but had to do with SPIN AND MARTY.....It was another era....the '50's......deep undercover!

ROBIN HITCHCOCK .. THE DEVIL'S RADIO

Quirky poet, Robyn Hitchcock was certainly a unique manifestation of genius.......this is from STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK......a really marvelous recording project.....

WRVU LATE NIGHT RADIO SHOW -- 1964

after my friend, Bert Bottorff's European Baroque Hour...on WRVU....the Vanderbilt Campus Station......I hosted.a program....11-12pm.......of more modern and experimental music.....Subotnik, Stockhausen, Cage, Berio......not exactly Mozart or Chopin......Students would call in and threaten to kill me if I didn't play Paul Revere and the Raiders, Joan Baez or The Beetles......you'd think kids would be more daring and open.......pleeze......not some more Peter, Paul and Mary.....! WRVU finally cancelled my avante guarde program, replacing it with some 19th century romantic goulash that would blend into late-nite studies........fiddly dee!~

APRIL SHOWERS

Although Pinocchio is my favorite Disney movie......My favorite scene from a Disney film is this one......it touched me as a child and still does...... I think that the dynamics of this scene made a great impression on little me.......this lovely piece of animation stuck in my mind......

AND, SMEARED ON A DARKER PALETTE..... TOM WAITS

I love his roughest sandpaper voiced poesy.........I love extremes.......Ignore the middle ground.....it'll sink, overloaded....into the abyss of banality.....

MY FIRST "ART" MOVIES....... Oh, to live in Sugar Plum Fairy Land!

In the 50's, i could hardly wait for the latest MGM all-dancing-all-singing movie to open at the Lyric in lovely downtown Huntsville.....i would leave the Lyric, dancing on the broken sidewalks all the way to the Grand News Stand, where I could view pics of film artists dancing and singing as other boys stood around jockeying for position to review the latest comix, Mad magazine, and Tales from the Crypt......then...off to the Twickingham or Rexall for vintage scenerios, sodas, cherry cokes or malts, walls of boxed chocolates and fan magazines for Tab Hunter and Annette Funicello....I wanted Life to emulate ART......I still do!

ENKI BILAL

Les amitiés maléfiques

other films like BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, just don't have this level of sophisticated and intelligent dialogue.....not to mention the brilliant Malik Zidi, who reminds me of a young Richard Gere, but more subtle and polished....virtually unknown in the U.S. a wonderful ensemble....

THE OBVERSE......THE WAY I'D LIKE TO REMEMBER CHILDHOOD

from a great film about Childhood........and a model, in a way, for stuff like "Malcolm in the Middle".........I imagine what that would be like, directed by Fellini....

THE HUNGER

Tony Scott directed my favorite erotic vampire film.....Chilled as I was as a voyeur from the dark, velvet-curtained balcony of the Central Theatre, in 1958, to watch Bela lure fragile hearts with his black cape and slicked-back raven's hair....a quarter of a century later, this complex cinema piece more suited my gaze into the dark currents of humanity.....

GREATEST SHOWER-STALL PERFORMANCE

my cynically sweet friend, Jay....singing a traditional Irish song that reaches deep within the heart......I wish Jay were more known...he is a wonderful singer and sensitive and funny, too.....

La Fille Sur Le Pont

one of Cinema's great love scenes.......Patrice Leconte directs Vanessa Paradis & Daniel Auteuil......

WHO ELSE BUT JOHN WATERS

could pull off an Elvis retro-musical with Polly Bergen, Joey Heatherton, David Nelson, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Tracie Lords, Mink Stole, Troy Donahue, Patty Hearst, Joe Dallasandro, and Willem Dafoe?
and Johnny Depp rocks!

WINGS OF DESIRE

A film that stuck in my mind.....thinking of this great work gives more purposefulness to my life....it's so easy to get absorbed in our individualistic self-gratifications and forget that we're all in the same soup pot......voices from deep within may extricate us from suffering and hopelessness...the voices of compassion, understanding and hope.......