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  Folge: Bruce LaBruce & Jörg Buttgereit : Manifest - Das Filmforum : Neuigkeiten und Diskussionen aus der Welt des ...
Bruce LaBruce (42), kanadische Ikone des schwulen Undergroundfilms, trifft in Toronto den legendären deutschen Skandalregisseur und Autor Jörg Buttgereit (42).
„Holst Du Dir auf Slasherfilme einen runter?“ Bruce LaBruce kann nicht glauben, dass sein Gast Jörg Buttgereit sich nichts aus Pornofilmen macht.
Beim Besuch einer Domina hält sich Jörg zurück, während Bruce seinen Hintern bereitwillig der Peitsche bietet.
forum.dasmanifest.com /viewtopic.php?p=48808   (868 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> LaBruce, Bruce
Bruce LaBruce has become one of the most controversial and influential members of the "queercore" or "homocore" movement of extreme or guerrilla-type homosexual artistic expression.
LaBruce's next film was Super 8½ (1994), an admonitory bio-pic about the rise to cult stardom of a rapidly aging porn actor/director and the underground filmmaker who exploits him.
An iconoclast and provocateur, LaBruce, through his work, remains committed to pushing the boundaries of cinema, society, moral comfort, and yes, even taste, in his desire to demystify and explore worlds many might deem taboo.
www.glbtq.com /arts/labruce_b.html   (684 words)

  
  Amazon.de: The Reluctant Pornographer: English Books: Bruce Labruce   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bruce LaBruce's witty revulsion and response to gay culture--the film industry, drag queens, drugs, and sex--give his latest endeavor a certain pop-philosophical conversational appeal.
But LaBruce is armed to the hilt with a wicked tongue and a definitive sense of purity in his perversity.
LaBruce is definitely worthy of his artistic license and creativity.
www.amazon.de /Reluctant-Pornographer-Bruce-Labruce/dp/1896356125   (533 words)

  
 La belle LaBruce: two sexy new DVDs remind us that in the world of Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce, the revolution ...
LaBruce has always brought us tales that push boundaries, from Hustler White's male amputee hookers plying their trade to The Raspberry Reich's revolutionaries screaming, "Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses."
In Reich, LaBruce's latest offering, plans run afoul for a group of wannabe terrorists when they find that their kidnapping victim has been disowned by his wealthy father for his homosexuality.
LaBruce's writing was the inspiration for veteran Canadian director John Palmer's Sugar, loosely based on short stories written by LaBruce back during his Super 8 days when he was the cocreator of the seminal queer punk zine JD's.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2004_Nov_23/ai_n8700529   (593 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce Peres Projects San Francisco - Pressrelease
LaBruce was an early producer of homo punk fanzines which helped launch the so-called Homocore or Queercore movement.
LaBruce's photography, like his films, explores, exposes and ultimately challenges dominant cultural expectations of sexual behavior.
LaBruce shows with Bailey Fine Arts in Toronto and MC MAGMA in Milan and has also had shows in NYC at Alleged Gallery and in Vancouver at the Pitt Gallery.
www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1033056643   (433 words)

  
 GMfilms: Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce is a writer, film-maker, and photographer stuck in the gulag otherwise known as Toronto, Canada.
LaBruce may or may not be playing himself in this disturbing film, an aging porn star/director whose career is on the skids owing to his inability to cope with his emerging identification as a cineaste.
After meeting an underground dyke film-maker named Googie (Liza LaMonica), he consents to appear in a documentary about his sordid life, only to realize that she is ultimately exploiting him to further her own career.
www.gmfilms.de /brucelabruce.html   (282 words)

  
 Director Bruce LaBruce speaks about queer content at Sundance
LABRUCE: The idea for this film came from always running into kids in their late teens or early 20s who would tell me they felt like they were dead or dead inside.
LABRUCE: I have a longstanding relationship with the US distributor Strand Releasing, who have rights to five of my titles in the US, and they have a very close relationship with Sundance.
LABRUCE: It is interesting because I've known Julien and Kalin and Araki since the early '90s and it's amazing that we're still all kicking it.
www.xtra.ca /public/viewstory.aspx?AFF_TYPE=3&STORY_ID=4286&PUB_TEMPLATE_ID=1   (1084 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Nacido el 3 de enero de 1964, Bruce LaBruce es un escritor, realizador cinematográfico y fotógrafo canadiense afincado en Toronto.
Un artista excéntrico, de hecho el propio Bruce LaBruce, visita Hollywood y pasea en limusina entre jóvenes escultóricos que se prostituyen, quedando prendido de uno de ellos.
Bruce LaBruce se enamora de un joven skin-head en esta película lenta, romántica y fuera del género pornográfico.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_LaBruce   (372 words)

  
 southcoast247.com - Movies - Punched in the Nose: An Interview with Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker who commonly blends the ideals of Hollywood glamour with not so subtle hints of violence and homosexuality.
LaBruce, however courageously and abrasively dives deeper into such topics, never restraining from the graphic details of this side of life.
Click here to read Courtney’s interview with Bruce LaBruce regarding his films, sexuality, and political ideas, and how his work inspired countless independent filmmakers and cemented a place upon the cinematic pedestal beside queer cinema godfathers Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, Jack Smith, and John Waters.
www.southcoast247.com /movies/stories/blb.shtml   (434 words)

  
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Bruce LaBruce: He was a former model of Rick's, Rick has known him since the 1980s, and he did it for very little.
Bruce LaBruce: He didn't only show up when he was in a scene, he also showed up to watch the shooting.
Bruce LaBruce : I found Tony Ward to be sexy, but not because he had fucked Madonna.
www.tony-ward.com /_private/1996HustlerWhite.htm   (881 words)

  
 BRUCE LABRUCE
Quintessential LaBruce, comprising an uneasy blend of social satire, romantic comedy, and graphic sexuality.
Director Bruce LaBruce plays the Karen Carpenter-loving hairstylist who is helplessly attracted to the lonely and stoic skinhead he finds and invites to his home.
LaBruce stars in this vaguely autobiographical look at a triple-X star-director caught in the downward spiral of his career.
brucelabruce.com /movies.html   (424 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Bruce LaBruce: Ride, Queer, Ride!: Books: Bruce Labruce,Noam Gonick,Bruce La Bruce   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An engaging portrait of the underground filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, founder of the Homocore movement and maker of No Skin Off My Ass, Super 81/2, and Hustler White.
Included are LaBruce's diary from the making of Hustler White, a letter from the late Kurt Cobain, LaBruce's interview with performance artist Vaginal Creme Davis, and essays by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and David McIntosh of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bruce helps gays return to the sensibility that they had as outcasts- not inhabitants of a mainstream made safe for them by the HRC and GLAAD, but members of a truly alternative lavender underworld....
www.amazon.com /Bruce-LaBruce-Ride-Queer/dp/0921381123   (693 words)

  
 Radical, Political, Sexual: Bruce LaBruce Pushes Boundaries and Buttons - RES Magazine
Not especially concerned with eroticism, his films are down and dirty punk comedies that marry the energy and methods of classic sexploitation with a sensibility born out of art school brattiness.
LaBruce approaches the didactic politics of the film in the same way he does the sex, parodying the formula while celebrating it at the same time.
LaBruce never openly mocks the group and their ideas, maintaining a tone of bemused admiration.
www.res.com /magazine/articles/radicalpoliticalsexualbrucelabrucepushesboundariesandbuttons_2005-03-03.html   (599 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Bruce LaBruce - 44 - Male - Toronto, CA - www.myspace.com/brucelabruce
Bruce LaBruce's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
I'm Bruce LaBruce what are you going to do about it?
Though it is generally taken that agnostics neither believe nor disbelieve in God, it is possible to be a theist or atheist in addition to an agnostic.
www.myspace.com /brucelabruce   (984 words)

  
 index magazine interview
BRUCE: Yeah, well that too is a holdover from the early filmmaking where the technique always comes out of limitations.
BRUCE: We encouraged him to change his lines and improvise so the role would be more … so that he could incorporate his own story.
BRUCE: She said she liked the movies, thought they were funny, but she couldn't be associated with pornography.
www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/bruce_labruce.shtml   (3048 words)

  
 Red Bull Flugtag San Francisco 2002 - Teams
Bruce LaBruce team seems, well, a bit squirrelly.
Bruce LaBruce for an entry that (1) sends an overgrown acorn down a ramp, which in turn (2) smacks into a giant axe that (3) cuts a rope, which (4) swings a massive boot into (5) the posteriors of three "hunters" who fall into the bay, thus (6) slingshoting a "flying squirrel" into the air?
Bruce LaBruce is confident of a win: "We already went to Reno and spent the money." But what they'll be hoping for most on October 26 is recognition.
www.redbullflugtagusa.com /SanFrancisco2002/teams.aspx?tid=46   (370 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce's Super 8 1/2 (and a comment from Bruce himself.) - Bruce LaBruce's Super 8 ½
But I’m not silly enough to fault Bruce LaBruce for making what he wanted instead of the comedy about the gay porn industry I was expecting.
And I said: “But I’m not silly enough to fault Bruce LaBruce for making what he wanted instead of the comedy about the gay porn industry I was expecting.” I wasn’t faulting you.
Bruce’s email in response to my reply was very civil.
www.queerpopculture.com /archives/gay_themed/bruce_labruces_super_8_.php   (841 words)

  
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LaBruce's Hustler White, made in collaboration with L.A.-based photog Rick Castro, was released in 1996.
Co-starring supermodel Tony Ward and LaBruce himself, Hustler premiered at Sundance and similarly went on to become a film festival and cult favourite.
In 1998, LaBruce expanded into several new areas - as a photographer and columnist for such magazines as Honcho and Inches, and as a photographer, writer, and interviewer for New York's Index Magazine, to which he was recently named a contributing editor.
flasher.com /view_profile.php?profile_id=135   (2949 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce Takes On Gay Zombies / Queerty
Now, LaBruce turns his iconic eye to a seemingly unrealistic, and quite timely, topic: zombies.
Despite his success, LaBruce stays true to his message: assimilation sucks.
Bruce totally sold out with “Otto.” I saw it at Sundance and it was tame and lame.
www.queerty.com /bruce-labruce-takes-on-gay-zombies-20080310   (1020 words)

  
 The Film Reference Library
Bruce LaBruce, Canada’s leading auteur-pornographer, Wizard of Odd and self-styled Prince of Homosexuals, has stated: “My work is about creating a persona and injecting it into a scenario and watching it from a distance.
A distant descendant of the medieval Scottish patriot Robert the Bruce, LaBruce was born Bryan Bruce and grew up with a God-fearing, Presbyterian family in a small, rural Ontario farming community also named Bruce.
LaBruce collaborated with Brüning on his next film, the Godard-esque agit-prop porn parody The Raspberry Reich (2004), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and played at festivals around the world.
www.filmreferencelibrary.ca /index.asp?layid=46&csid1=3652&navid=46   (510 words)

  
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There’s a thin line between art and porn – or porn and art – and Toronto-based filmmaker and photographer Bruce LaBruce walks it like a tightrope.
LaBruce’s work is explicit and shocking but always intensely humorous and ironic.
For over a decade, this bad-boy of queer cinema has aroused, incensed and ultimately challenged audiences – igniting a fuse from the groin on up to the critical faculties.
www.image-nation.org /festivalseries/en/BruceLabruce.html   (117 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce: Little Mister Overcast
Bruce LaBruce is a film-maker, writer, photographer, and artist sometimes stuck in the Gulag known as Toronto, Canada.
A book on LaBruce’s work, “Ride Queer Ride”, was published in 1998 by the Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada, but good luck trying to find a copy.
This is one of my co-producers, Bruce Bailey, on t...
brucelabruce.blogspot.com /2008/01/little-mister-overcast.html   (153 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Bruce LaBruce - 44 - Male - Toronto, CA - www.myspace.com/thebrucelabruce
LaBruce tells me that to his shame he had tried to keep his page toned down to comply to the arbitrary and insipid "moral" standards of Rupert Murdoch's bastard child, but apparently even castrated LaBruce is too much for the delicate sensibilities of the MySpace thought police.
LaBruce may have his new intern post a new LaBruce page on MySpace, but it won't be the same.
I told him that all bad things must come to an end, and maybe now he will be motivated to revamp his own website, a homepage where he doesn't have to be afraid of censorship, moral disapprobation, and ingratitude.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=247787992   (882 words)

  
 PopcornQ Movies
A thorn in the creamy underbelly of gay cinema, Bruce LaBruce manages to both engage and enrage.
LaBruce is often taken to task for his wry deflation of the macho pump and splendor of gay male desire.
LaBruce goes beyond mere shock value and cynicism to a truer, more complex heart.
www.planetout.com /popcornq/db/getfilm.html?2036   (523 words)

  
 kamera.co.uk - feature article - Interview - A Quick Chat With Bruce LaBruce by Antonio Pasolini
Canadian film-maker Bruce LaBruce's latest offering, The Raspberry Reich, is a satire of Radical Chic, the fetishisation of signifiers and postures of the radical left.
Led by the charismatic Gudrun, a devotee of Wihelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, she indoctrinates her male followers into giving themselves over to the revolution while making them have sex with one another, including her boyfriend, as a sign of rejection of 'heterosexuality, the opium of the masses'.
This is LaBruce at his finest: loads of slapstick humour, explicit sex and a narrative style redolent of Warhol and Cassavetes.
www.kamera.co.uk /interviews/a_quick_chat_with_bruce_labruce.php   (1829 words)

  
 Folge: Bruce LaBruce & Jörg Buttgereit : Manifest - Das Filmforum : Neuigkeiten und Diskussionen aus der Welt des ...
Und doch sind sie, wie die Karten sagten, in vielen Dingen das verdrehte Spiegelbild des anderen.
Bruce La Bruce hat sich in seiner Karriere die Bezeichnung „meistgehasster Mann im Filmgeschäft“ hart erarbeitet.
LaBruce ist der klare Gewinner des Abends: Charismatisch, witzig, klug, sehr cool, allerdings auch schwer durchschaubar.
forum.dasmanifest.com /viewtopic.php?p=49689   (868 words)

  
 Bruce LaBruce’s Gay Zombie Movie Otto: Or, Up With Dead People - Film Junk
Bruce LaBruce’s Gay Zombie Movie Otto: Or, Up With Dead People
Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer and filmmaker who is generally known as a gay activist.
I don’t think there are too many art house zombie movies out there, and the fact that LaBruce decided to give his take on the genre clearly had a lot of people intrigued.
www.filmjunk.com /2008/01/24/bruce-labruces-gay-zombie-movie-otto-or-up-with-dead-people   (577 words)

  
 MySpaceTV Videos: Bruce LaBruce Video Channel
Bruce LaBruce - Otto; or, Up with Dead People - LaBruce - First Full Trailer
A clip from the Bruce LaBruce movie Hustler White.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 4:09 PM hi bruce.
vids.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=247787992   (312 words)

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