Tool and Die made a huge impact on my budding gay sensibility, from the moment I heard about them and saw stills to the times I went to the Adonis Theater (and other old-fashioned dirty-movie palaces) and watched them for myself. His famous trilogy of Kansas City Trucking Company, El Paso Wrecking Company, and L.A. But for Queer/Art/Film, this movie was selected and introduced by Joe Gage (below center), who was the first guy who succeeded in making gay porn movies that were both aesthetically compelling and sexually hot. ![]() And Russ Meyer got famous pandering to horny straight guys with soft-core titty movies, again not an audience that would include me. I’m a kind of intellectual snob and would rather see something arty than something trashy almost any day of the week. This would ordinarily not be my cup of tea – “so bad it’s good” isn’t high praise for me. Russ Meyer’s 1965 Faster Pussycat Kill Killis a classic B-movie – I realize that’s a dated term for a genre flick, an apologetically trashy, low-budget, black-and-white exploitation film. July 26 – I’ve gotten hooked on the Queer/Art/Film Series that Ira Sachs (below right) and Adam Baran (below left) co-curate at the IFC Center every month.
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