Lee Jutton

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on April 23, 2025. The debut feature from writer-director Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace pulls back the curtain of a Queens massage parlor to give us an intimate look at the lives of the immigrant women who work there.

3 weeks ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

The debut feature from writer-director Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace pulls back the curtain of a Queens massage parlor to give us an intimate look at the lives of the immigrant women who work there. The undeniable toll that their work takes on them in body and spirit is tempered by the close friendships they have formed with each other, but a shocking act of violence plunges one of them into a pit of grief and loneliness that threatens to consume her entirely.

3 weeks ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Over several years of shooting, artist James Bidgood transformed his Manhattan apartment into the glittering, candy-colored paradise of homoeroticism that is the primary setting of his sole feature film, Pink Narcissus. Shot on 8mm and 16mm film stock, the film was blown up to 35mm for its original release in 1971 and credited to “Anonymous” after disputes with financiers led to Bidgood removing his name from the credits.

1 month ago | filminquiry.com | Lee Jutton

Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman is a film as simple and complicated as its title implies. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay, it chronicles the tentative, tender romance between a widow and a widower, irresistibly drawn to one another despite the heavy weight of past tragedies.

1 month ago | medium.com | Lee Jutton

Lee Jutton·Follow4 min read·--This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on April 3, 2025. Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman is a film as simple and complicated as its title implies. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay, it chronicles the tentative, tender romance between a widow and a widower, irresistibly drawn to one another despite the heavy weight of past tragedies.