“Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your biography?’ I replied, ‘Because fucking Virginia Woolf wrote my biography in 1928.’” So muses director Paul B. Preciado at the start of his ...
From Boys Don’t Cry (2000) to The Danish Girl (2015) to Kokomo City (2023), narrative and documentary films that portray the experiences of trans people tend to be punctuated, if not dominated, by ...
A star known for her stellar beauty hides it under a wig, unflattering makeup and 30 extra pounds. A fiery actor signs on to play a milquetoast, broken man. A first-time director strips away the work ...
Filmmaker Paul B. Preciado’s literate ode to the many Orlandos who walk the world is playful, urgent and brilliantly innovative in its way of exploring transgender identity. Preciado understands how ...
Benjamin Ree, director of 'The Remarkable Life of Ibelin' Kristoffer Kumar/Elevation Pictures For his Oscar-contending documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, filmmaker Benjamin Ree drew ...