James Kleinmann
Actor
Movies14
Movie4.7DramaIn the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down
Goodbye Seventies
2020 · 7 votes
MovieHorrorDramaRick, a photographer, witnesses the brutal murder of a gay man in Central Park. With the cops taking little interest in the crime, a dangerous and sexy game of cat and mouse ensues between Rick and the killer, Adam.
Movie2.0RomanceTwo gay men navigate a burgeoning long distance relationship with the help of video calls.
LDR
2018 · 1 votes
MovieAs an older gay man lies dying in a hospital room, he tries to remember all of his past lovers. Over the years, he had filmed many of his lovers as a way to capture them, but now the films are disintegrating – fading away just like his memories. Shot entirely on super8 film, this touching new film incorporates archival footage shot by Charles Lum in the 1970s and '80s (including footage from his time as an exchange student in Norway), archival footage shot by Todd Verow in the 1980s and '90s, as well as new footage by Verow. With a script based on Lum's stories and cruising diaries, and stories written by Verow, Memorabilia is a beautiful visual homage to love, as well as a testament to its creators' close friendship and mutual understanding in how to tell a story. Charles Lum never saw this film come to life, but he would no doubt have been proud of the result.
Memorabilia
2024
Movie4.0DocumentaryHistoryA documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.
The End of Cruising
2013 · 6 votes
MovieDramaAn update on William Friedkin's classic film CRUISING.
Cruising 2020
2020
Movie1.0DramaA world-weary gay man remembers lost lovers as he swims from the Christopher Street Piers in New York City to Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Swimming to the End of the World
2021 · 2 votes
Movie1.0DramaV, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
This Side of Heaven
2016 · 2 votes
MovieScott is still sleeping with his ex-boyfriend and floundering through life when his mother calls to tell him his older sister Maggie is in the hospital with a brain tumor. Scott rushes to be by her side. As she lies unconscious he remembers the times their lives intersected. She was a party girl, a popular girl, she got around. Scott imagines what Maggie would say but ultimately realizes that you can never truly know anyone and decides to take a chance on love and life.
Movie1.0DramaBased on filmmaker Charles Lum's own experience of going to a gay beach as a young man and almost having sex for the first time.
My Almost First Time
2022 · 2 votes
MovieA tribute to Charles Lum’s life told through his work as a film maker. Featuring Super-8 films Charlie shot as a teenager in the 1970s up to the last film he made about his battle with AIDS related lymphoma. Charlie AKA Clublum was a much-loved and valued member of our queer and film community, whose films defied the taboos and stigmas of sex, sex in public places and sex with HIV. His films embody a quirky earnestness and a wacky and wicked sense of humor and always the utter delight and pleasure of another body.
MovieComedyTwo gay men try to remember if they had met before as they spend the summer on Fire Island. A homage to/parody of the classic film Last Year at Marienbad set in the present day at the notorious gay guest house the Belvedere.
Movie4.3DramaThree young artists; a trans opera singer/dj, a middle eastern American performance artist and a gay film maker, share a tiny studio apartment while they look for love and fame in NYC. They scrimp and save and scam and steal their way from month to month somehow they survive but in the new world shared economy they are just one click away from losing everything.
Squirrels
2018 · 8 votes
Movie2.0DramaShot on super8 film using single frame photography, Covid Summer condenses all the anxiety, insanity, and stir-crazy sexual tension of the summer of 2020.
Covid Summer
2021 · 2 votes