#pink narcissus

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French film poster for the 1980s re-release of Pink Narcissus (1971) dir. James Bidgood.

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Pink Narcissus (1971), dir. James Bidgood

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 91 years ago: pioneering homoerotic filmmaker and photographer James Bidgood (28 March 1933 – 31 January 2022). His crowning achievement is Pink Narcissus (1971), which I’ll always associate with London’s long-defunct, much-missed Scala Cinema. It’s one of the essential homoerotic classicks (sic) of underground cinema (alongside Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour, Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising and Andy Warhol’s My Hustler) all homosexualists should see at least once. Simultaneously avant-garde and kitsch, for Bidgood Pink Narcissus was an obsessive labour of love: made on a shoe-string budget, seven years in production (from 1963 to 1970), all filmed entirely within the confines of his own compact Manhattan apartment (even the “exterior” street scenes). The hot neon shocking pink and blue-hued photography is exquisite (French pop art duo Pierre et Gilles swiped this whole style for their own camp sensibility). Beauteous leading man Bobby Kendall (pictured) was a teenage runaway when Bidgood scooped him up; he never made another film but possessed perhaps the greatest, noblest and most poetic male ass ever captured on film second only to Joe Dallesandro’s. Pink Narcissus ensures Bidgood artistic immortality.

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Pink Narcissus (1971) // dir. James Bidgood

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pink narcissus inspired • shop

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PINK NARCISSUS

(1971) dir. James Bidgood

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Pink Narcissus 1971. dir.James Bidgood

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[wiccan-twink]

Hi twinks hi witches this is a safespace to do absolutely unhinged gay witchy chaos 💘❤️‍🔥❣️

[counterboud]

Pink Narcissus, 1971

Watched this film for the first time tonight. It is basically just gay porn, but delightful and had a statement: that sometimes you’re your own best partner when you’re hot and the rest of the world is ugly

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The Weekly Gravy #117

The Weekly Gravy #117

A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990) – **½ While I’d long been aware of A Gnome Named Gnorm, it wasn’t until it became a running gag on The Flop House (my go-to bad-movie podcast), culminating in an episode where the Peaches discussed the film with writer Parker Bennett, who’d done uncredited work on the script with his partner Terry Runte, that I decided to seek it out. In that episode and in a recent…

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Pink Narcissus (1971) // dir. James Bidgood

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Pink Narcissus (1971, dir. James Bidgood)