Episode 72: 1991 with Alonso Duralde
A podcast about the great movie years.
Critic, podcaster, and author Alonso Duralde was just beginning his professional life in 1991, and witnessed the early pangs of what became known as the New Queer Cinema, a key point in his new book Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film. He joins us to talk about that moment, including the delights of Madonna: Truth or Dare, the coding of Thelma & Louise, and the genuine transgressiveness of Poison.
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Madonna: Truth or Dare is available for digital rental or purchase; Jason also wrote this piece about it for Flavorwire a few years ago. My Own Private Idaho is also available for digital rental or purchase, or on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.
Paris is Burning is streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel (there’s also a fabulous Criterion Blu-ray), and it’s available for digital rental or purchase. Poison is streaming on Kanopy, and is available for digital rental or purchase or on Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
And Thelma and Louise is streaming on Amazon Prime, and is available for digital rental or purchase. You can hear the You Must Remember This episode about it here.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1991, with critic Brian Tallerico, you can listen to that here. If you’d like to watch Mike’s pick Trump: What’s the Deal?, you can do that here. And here is that Cool As Ice opening that Alonso referenced.
You can follow Alonso on Blusky here and on Instagram here, and you can buy Hollywood Pride here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.