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Rather than focusing on the content of the films themselves, t he Ask Any Buddy Instagram account is more about the ways in which these gay adult movies were advertised isn’t it? What intrigues you about that aspect gay movie history? As you’d imagine, finding back issues of regional gay magazines and newspapers isn’t always the easiest.” I source my materials from a bunch of different online archives, as well as from my own paper and video collection. I wasn’t sure whether the end result would be a book, a film, a screening series, or some combination of the above, but I wanted to get this material back out into the world and see if there was any interest. “The Instagram was originally meant to be something of a mood board for my ongoing research. What led you start your brilliant instagram account and where do you generally get the material from? Image from Tim in Vermont.Ī post shared by Ask Any Buddy on at 7:30am PDT Evan Purchell’s on Instagram "…The gay Masterpiece of Masterpieces is BIJOU! …BIJOU is the best gay film of 1972!" - Screw Magazine. "…It looks like a porno film starring Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Steve Reeves, and Joe Dallesandro!" - Variety. "…Bill Harrison's piercing blue eyes and eleven inch pile-driver are visual pluses in the films hero, a construction worker - …as a harem of stripped stallions, one by one, arrives to initiate Harrison into the club, he enjoys, enjoys, enjoys." - The Advocate. “Best picture of the year! Tops ‘THROAT.’” – Al Goldstein. Press blurbs used in the film’s advertising. Original theatrical art for Wakefield Poole’s BIJOU, from its opening run at the 55th St. I realized that there was this whole hidden history that nobody seemed interested in talking about and that’s what made me want to start digging deeper.” That led me to Fred Halsted, Curt McDowell, Jack Deveau, and on and on and on.
I’d seen a handful of hetero films from that era before - mostly titles by well-regarded filmmakers like Shaun Costello, Gerard Damiano, and Radley Metzger - but Bijou was a revelation and made me want to see what else might be out there. James Kleinman, The Queer Review: Clearly you’re too young to have been around in the late 60s, 70s and 80s which Ask Any Buddy covers, so what got you interested in vintage gay porn? What was the first vintage adult movie you saw and how did you get to see it?Įvan Purchell: “My partner and I caught a screening of Wakefield Poole’s Bijou about four years ago. He also recommends several of his favourite gay erotic movies for those who what to do some further research. The Queer Review’s editor James Kleinmann spoke to film historian and Ask Any Buddy director Evan Purchell about what ignited his passion for vintage gay adult movies, both the on screen work and the way that they were advertised and represented in contemporary print, and how he approached selecting the material and creating the film.
Set to have its international premiere at last month’s BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival (cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Ask Any Buddy is available to stream in the UK on the BFI Player until Monday April 6th as part of BFI Flare at Home. Purchell’s film “takes you on a trip into a vintage homotopia with a kaleidoscope of hunks, hard-ons, hungry eyes, tight denim pants, muscle and moustaches.” Read James Kleinmann’s ★★★★ review. Ask Any Buddy the movie expertly weaves together fragments of image, sound effects and music from 126 erotic gay films from 1968 to 1986 by pioneers of the genre such as Arch Brown, Jack Deveau, Joe Gage, Wakefield Poole and Peter de Rome. The curator of Instagram’s account, which explores the history of gay adult movies in print, Evan Purchell, has lovingly crafted a feature length companion film of the same name.