As a teenager encountering “Shortbus” for the first time, I felt a shimmering world of likeminded individuals suddenly open up in front of me. It was a bit like Dorothy entering Technicolor for the ...
The Hedwig and the Angry Inch director looks back on his explicit classic Shortbus as it returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration It's been over 15 years since Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell's ...
“Let’s face it: monogamy’s for straight people,” says Jamie (PJ DeBoy) in one early moment in John Cameron Michell’s “Shortbus.” The film was restored and rereleased by Oscilloscope Laboratories and ...
The drag queen host (Justin Bond) of the Brooklyn salon that gives John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus" its name, surveys the room where a frisky and friendly orgy is in full swing, and pronounces: ...
John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 queer erotic masterpiece is critically acclaimed. So why won't Prime Video stream it? The official Prime Video reasoning is that the “captions are out of sync” for the ...
When a longtime married couple bounces all over the bed in every imaginable position in "Shortbus," or when a particularly limber character bends into a yoga pose that proves he, um, never has to ...
The filmmaker said his 2006 film can be both therapeutic and challenging for today's audiences: "There's so much tension about hurting, offending or triggering. This is full of triggers." By Chris ...
It's a miracle it got made in the first place. The filmmaker waxes poetic about shooting real sex for his newly restored second feature. As a teenager encountering “Shortbus” for the first time, I ...