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Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. Recently there have been retrospectives of his films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and at MoMA in New York City. His latest feature, The Misandrists, will be released in 2018.

Bruce LaBruce on the Forgotten Genius of Frank and Eleanor Perry

The Canadian auteur shines a light on the excellent but mostly forgotten work of the husband-and-wife filmmaking team from the '60s and '70s.

August 1, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer

LaBruce extols the virtues of Frank and Eleanor Perry’s shocking coming-of-age drama that captures the loss of innocence of the late 1960s.

August 1, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Little Darlings

LaBruce inducts the 1980 feminist teensploitation movie starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol into his alternative canon.

July 7, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Making Love

Talkhouse Film's champion of the cinematic underdog shares his affection for Arthur Hiller's pre-AIDS gay melodrama.

May 31, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Desperate Characters

The Canadian provocateur (and champion of misfit movies) examines the campy ennui and genuine horror of ’70s domesticity.

May 9, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: The King of Marvin Gardens

The Canadian provocateur sheds light on Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson's less celebrated follow-up to Five Easy Pieces.

April 17, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: The Day of the Locust

The Canadian auteur reconsiders John Schlesinger's expansive take on Nathanael West's classic novella about '30s Hollywood.

March 7, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: The Rapture

In his journey through the alternative canon, LaBruce puts his focus on Michael Tolkin's 1991 fusion of female sexual melodrama and Biblical epic.

February 16, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Debbie Reynolds in The Rat Race and Goodbye Charlie

The Canadian provocateur (and champion of unfairly neglected movies) focuses on two from the late actress in which she plays against type.

February 1, 2017

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Daisy Miller

LaBruce highlights Peter Bogdanovich's unfairly dismissed 1974 Henry James adaptation, a film he considers one of the best of the 1970s.

November 17, 2016

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment

A bomb on its release, this John Travolta-Lily Tomlin camp feminist melodrama can be mined deeply for covert clues about its two stars' sexuality.

October 25, 2016

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Fortune and Men’s Eyes

The Canadian auteur and provocateur champions the 1971 Canadian film which broke boundaries with its frank depiction of homosexuality.

September 23, 2016