In his day, producer Allan Carr was known as "flamboyant," a code word for gay. This was at a time when being openly gay in Hollywood could mean career suicide.

"Medea," first staged in 431 BCE and Euripides' penultimate extant work, shocked contemporary audiences at Athens' Dionysia.

If you ask anyone over 45 if they have seen the film "Women in Love," assuming they remember it, they will often remark, "Yes, that's the movie with the two naked guys wrestling each other in front of a fireplace."

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture but going home empty-handed, Lady Bird remains one of the best films of 2017, and has just been released on DVD by A24/Lionsgate.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a brilliant, successful playwright, poet, novelist, and essayist. Following is a selective list of movies based on his life and works.

Lesbian-owned Wolfe Video offers the crime thriller "Russian Doll," which offers a better subplot than its main story.

Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel "The Group" follows eight Vassar graduates of the class of 1933 who remain friends as they face the tribulations and joys of the real world.

Cohen Media Group has reissued for the first time on Blu-ray DVD one of James Ivory's crowning achievements, Heat and Dust, released in 1983.

The Indian director Satyajit Ray (1921-92) was one of the great world filmmakers, in the same auspicious company as Bunuel, Kurosawa, Bergman, and Fellini.

"Surge of Power: Revenge of the Sequel" is now available for your viewing pleasure. Vincent Roth and John Venturini reprise their roles as Surge and Metal Master.

Class is often called America's "dirty little secret," but in fact it was yanked out of its closet well over a century ago.

Few people have embodied a lifelong passion for images more than 89-year-old Agnes Varda, described as the grandmother of the French New Wave.

When "Tom Jones" was given the Best Picture Oscar of 1963, it was one of the very few times the top honor was given to a comedy. It remains so.

Writer-director Francis Lee's "God's Own Country" is rooted in a remote, sparsely populated area.