What If Gay Hitler? An essay.

🏳️‍🌈🍿🎨🎥 On Douglas Sirk, German cinema in the 30s, collaboration, the social importance (or not?) of art, Jaromir Jagr, icons in post-World War II Europe, subversion in three different eras of countries that are actually kind of similar, and whether we should even be making videos. The movie is: —La Habanera (1937), by Douglas Sirk Also seen/heard: —Pride GP 2004 Second Round Intro —There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), by Douglas Sirk —Written on the Wind (1956), by Douglas Sirk —All That Heaven Allows (1955), by Douglas Sirk —Magnificent Obsession (1954), by Douglas Sirk —Norm MacDonald appearance on HuffPost —“Are We The Baddies?” by Mitchell and Webb —Network (1976), by Sidney Lumet —Spartacus (1960), by Stanley Kubrick —The Secret of Convict Lake (1951), by Michael Gordon —The Snake Pit (1948), by Anatole Litvak —28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), by Alex Garland —Weapons (2025), by Zach Creggar —Salò (1975), by Pier Paolo Pasolini —Teorema (1968), by Pier Paolo Pasolini —Bad Boys 2 (2003), by Michael Bay —Munich (2005), by Steven Spielberg —Send Me No Flowers (1964), by Norman Jewison —Captain Kidd (1945), by Rowland V. Lee —Bigger Than Life (1956), by Nicholas Ray —People on Sunday (1931), by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer —A Grin Without A Cat (1977), by Chris Marker —Silenced (2011), by Hwang Dong-hyuk —The Zone of Interest (2023), by Jonathan Glazer —“Sirk on Sirk” by Jon Halliday —“La Revolucion Cultural Nazi” by Johann Chapoutot —“Melodrama for the Master Race”, by Andrew G. Bonnell —“The Ministry of Illusion” by Eric Rentschler —Article by Hazem Fahmy —Music by Cicada Sirens #lgbt #videoessay #movie #movies #film #films #cinema #moviehistory #filmhistory #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqhistory #douglassirk #sirk #oldmovie #oldmovies #classicmovie #classicmovies #leftist #leftism #progressive #filmanalysis #movieanalysis