Released on: 1997
Rating: 5.90
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Falling for Hugh all over again…
Is it time to reappraise our crushes in the wake of Hugh Grant's astonishing comeback? Plus, American Apparel's founder welcomes us into his home
Fancyings come in waves, like the smell of onions off a hot dog cart in high wind. A single event can propel a celebrity out of the urinal of our hearts, where they may have been lingering for a decade or more, and make you suddenly worry about all the hours you've wasted not fancying them, all the evenings spent not dwelling on their eyes, their paunch, spent not imagining the smell of their breath.
This week the fancying wave brought us Hugh Grant. It wasn't entirely out of the blue – there was the incident in 2007 when he was arrested for throwing a tub of cold baked beans at a pap. I liked that. And then when a St Andrews student posted pictures on Facebook»
- Eva Wiseman
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Taxi zum Klo – review
Thirty years ago, when Taxi zum Klo was shown in several cinemas under club conditions without a BBFC certificate, I was lined up to give evidence for the defence were it to be prosecuted for obscenity. My services were not required and the film now stands as a milestone in the history of both free speech and the representation of gays in the cinema.
What helps it retain its vitality is that writer-director Frank Ripploh (who died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 52) treats his life as "a normal, tired, neurotic polymorphous-perverse teacher" in Berlin with the same witty, generous, self-denigratory honesty as Clive James and Simon Gray brought to their heterosexual exercises in confessional autobiographies.
Taxi zum Klo is a truthful film, revolutionary in its time, about love, the pleasures of promiscuity and the fears of the fading of desire. Shot just before the great Aids scare of the early 1980s,»
- Philip French
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See also: About Breaking and Entering
