#Stephen Kijak

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“The public and private Rock Hudson” - reported by Tracy Smith for CBS Sunday Morning (originally broadcasted June 26, 2023)

For nearly four decades as a star of films and TV, Rock Hudson was Hollywood's epitome of heterosexual desire. But he also led a secret life as a closeted gay man, and in 1985 became the first celebrity to die of AIDS. Correspondent Tracy Smith looks back on the public and private lives of Hudson, and talks with Stephen Kijak, director of the new HBO documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed; biographer Mark Griffin; and actress Linda Evans, who shared a romantic scene with Hudson on Dynasty at a time when some feared that a kiss could transmit HIV.

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Rock Hudson: all that heaven allowed, 2023

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Favorite films watched in June & July 2023 (pt. II):

The Novelist's Film (2022), dir. Hong Sang-soo

Eight Deadly Shots (1972), dir. Mikko Niskanen

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), dir. Hong Sang-soo

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed (2023), dir. Stephen Kijak

Autumn Tale (1998), dir. Éric Rohmer

Everything Went Fine (2021), dir. François Ozon

Aparajito (1956), dir Satyajit Ray

Apur Sansar (1959), dir Satyajit Ray

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Official Key Art And Trailer For HBO Original Documentary ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED | Debuts June 28

HBO Original documentary film ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED, directed by Stephen Kijak (“Stones in Exile”, “Sid & Judy,” Max Original “Equal”), debuts TUESDAY, JUNE 28 (9:00 – 10:44p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. The film will coincide with LGBTQ Pride Month and have its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.   Synopsis: ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN…

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Film Journal

"Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed" by Stephen Kijak

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

"You put a frame around things, you intensify the experience. And when that frame is not there, its just experience, which is banal. There's no way to impose that frame on reality. There's no way to turn yourself into a shot."

166. CINEMANIA (Stephen Kijak, Angela Christlieb, 2002) - Germany/United States - Streaming - Home Library, Apple TV - 79 minutes. New to me #152.

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Stephen Kijak's "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed" June 28, 2023.

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Rock Hudson, maior galã do cinema é "retirado do armário" em documentário para se tornar ícone LGBTQ+

Ainda sem data de estreia no Brasil, produção da HBO ‘Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Knows’ reivindica o ator Rock Hudson, que morreu aos 59 anos de Aids, como um ícone gay; saiba maisPor Raquel Pinheiro (@raquelpinheiroloureiro) Rock Hudson — Foto: Getty Images Stephen Kijak, diretor do documentário Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Knows, que já entrou no catálogo da HBO nos Estados Unidos, disse…

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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed

When I worked at Turner Broadcasting, TNT did a line of documentaries about classic film stars that used clips from the movies to tell their lives’ stories. It always seemed to me a rather facile approach, focusing less on what was important about their careers than on some strange notion that their films were literal biographies. Much of Stephen Kijak’s ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED (2023, Max) falls into that trap, and with one exception it seems rather coy. Less an analysis of his stardom or his place in film history, the documentary seems largely devoted to sensational revelations about Hudson’s private life. Kijak gets interview subjects to discuss Hudson’s endowment and there’s a really smarmy moment, a secretly recorded phone conversation between Hudson and a friend offering to fix him up with a hot young man. Add to that scenes inter-cutting his film lines with shots of male co-stars to make it seem he was coming on to Richard Long or Rod Taylor (I’ll admit, that got my heart fluttering a bit, but then my inner critic took over), and the first part of the film seems a little exploitative. But Hudson wasn’t just a gay film star in the closet. He was also a gay film star who contracted HIV and the first major celebrity to die from the disease. It’s there the film takes off. The memories of friends— including readings from George Nader’s diaries, a moving interview with Linda Evans, producer Ross Hunter’s tearful comments at Hudson’s death and Elizabeth Taylor’s statements before his passing — offer a very compelling and human picture of AIDS hysteria at a time when Hudson’s friend, President Reagan, refused to mention the illness and members of his administration even joked about it. That segment also contains the most effective cut from one of Hudson’s films (and a look at what is arguably his best performance). As interviewees discuss his finally agreeing to announce he had HIV in the face of press speculation about his illness, the film cuts to his tirade against bad journalism in Douglas Sirk’s TARNISHED ANGELS (1958). Beyond that, the later discussions of Hudson’s closeted status point to an interesting generational conflict among gay men that could use further exploration in another documentary.

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Documental sobre Scott Walker, disponible para ver online. Subtítulos en español.

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SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD (2021) A deranged fan of The Smiths flips out

SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD (2021) A deranged fan of The Smiths flips out

Shoplifters of the World is a 2021 American film about a fan of British indie rock band The Smiths who hijacks a radio station at gunpoint. Written and directed by Stephen Kijak (Sid & Judy; Stones in Exile; If I Leave Here Tomorrow; Never Met Picasso) from a story by Lorianne Hall, the movie stars Helena Howard, Ellar Coltrane, Elena Kampouris, Nick Krause, James Bloor, Thomas Lennon and Joe…

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Shoplifters of the World (2021) Stephen Kijak

March 27th 2021

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Film Review: Shoplifters of the World ★★★1/2

Film Review: Shoplifters of the World ★★★1/2

After her checkout shift at the local supermarket, community college student Cleo (Helena Howard) returns home to hear the devastating news on television that the British new wave band The Smiths have broken up. Her bedroom walls are plastered with Morrissey’s image, her Volkswagen Beetle is covered with The Smiths stickers; even the license plate reads MEATISMRDR, in writer-director Stephen…

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Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow (2018)

Featuring rare interviews and never-before-seen archival footage, Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow takes viewers on a trip through the history, myth and legend of one of the most iconic American rock bands.

Directed by:   Stephen Kijak

Release date:   August 18, 2018

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Shoplifters of the World (dir. Stephen Kijak).

There’s not much to the 1980s-set indie comedy aside from its pure adoration of the music and message of The Smiths’ moody discography. We follow the usual forlorn young adults rising up against adult society in the aftermath of the band’s breakup somewhere in suburban Denver, Colorado.

Our would-be lovers Cleo and Dean (Helena Howard and Ellar Coltrane) bond through radio and a mutual melancholy. Kijak tries to recreate the all-in-one-night coming-of-age early twenties vibe of youth with the troupes of friend groups, house parties, and sense of joyful rebellion.