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In Film and video

• Spotlight: Powerful, Poorly Aimed

Review of Spotlight, directed by Tom McCarthy, Open Road Films, 2015. (Movie review, Bernie Najarian, December 14, 2015 )

• A Decent Life: The Dissenting Narrative of Tom O'Carroll

A new documentary film by David Kennerly from the perspective of Tom O'Carroll is now finished.
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• WHO STOLE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

Short YouTube Video. While women and gay's rights and influence have expanded dramatically during the last thirty to forty years, kids have suffered a dramatic decline in freedom. This corresponds precisely with both the ascendance of feminism as well as the ubiquitous technological mesh which has destroyed privacy and autonomy.

• In production from Noel Films, Rodillas Quemadas (aka:Burnt Knees)

A new free adaptation of Turn of the Screw by Henry James - shows signs of pushing technical, artistic and social boundaries a little further still.

See trailer: Trailer 'Rodillas Quemadas' ('Burnt Knees') de Ivan Noel (2016) (YouTube video)

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Books and reviews

• Review of Lunch with Elizabeth David

This is a review of Lunch with Elizabeth David by Roger Williams (1999), of possible interest to some here as a novel mostly about the boyloving writer Norman Douglas.

• Headman of Corinth and his Two Boyfriends

Restored and retold by Andrew Calimach

• Scenario Types in Paederastic Greek Myth by Andrew Calimach

The chart that follows presents a global view of the surviving Greek myths centered on paederastic desire. They are grouped by categories named “scenarios,” of which four principal types are identified, “Hybristic erastes;” “Enkratic erastes and collaborative eromenos;” “Imprudent erastes and eromenos;” and “Hybristic eromenos.” Each scenario type is labeled according to the dominant dynamic of the stories in the group.