Director Douglas Tirola unearths never-before-seen archival footage and brilliantly weaves it together with the magazine's beautiful and often shocking art, reliving National Lampoon's meteoric rise from go-to magazine of the counterculture to a brand synonymous with Hollywood's biggest comedies. Here are some of the best lesbian, trans, bi, and gay shows on Netflix worth adding to your list. This unique cocktail of high satire and gallows humor exploded onto America's cultural consciousness attracting visionary talents such as Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase, whose comedic force helped expand the magazine's spirit to stage and film. Bound by a passion for the absurd and a mistrust of authority, Lampoon's irreverence spanked nearly every available social taboo from weak-kneed politics to heated racial tensions. Spawned at an Ivy League school by the wonderfully warped minds of Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard, National Lampoon rose from a counterculture rag to a revered comic institution. Now they're about to find out that when you push yourself to the edge, the real fun begins.Īmid the seismic cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine named National Lampoon stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. The trouble is, the two have a completely different definition of the word, "adventure". Call Me By Your Name won an academy award for Best Adapted Screenplay (it was based on a gay book) and Timothee Chalamet nominated for his performance.
#Gay movies on netflix september 2015 serial
The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, once he agrees to being accompanied by the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek - his long lost and former friend Katz (Academy Award nominee Nick Nolte), a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer who, after a lifetime of relying on his charm and wits to keep one step ahead of the law – sees the trip as a way to sneak out of paying some debts and sneak into one last adventure before its too late. Set in 1973 in the Italian countryside, 17-year-old Elio forms an intense and romantic bond with his father’s research assistant Oliver. "R.L.In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. "Veggietales in the House" (Netflix Original Series) A shy teen with the power to turn invisible must get it under control to help defend his neighborhood, putting aside the pursuit of his artistic dream. "Keith Richards: Under the Influence" (Netflix original documentary) "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" (2014) "Longmire: Season 4 (Netflix original series) "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl" (2005) "Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" (1962) "Heather McDonald: I Don't Mean To Brag" (2014) "72 Dangerous Animals Australia": Season 1 (2014) There are also period dramas you might have missed from last year with Jessica Chastain ("Miss Julie") and Mia Wasikowska ("Madame Bovary") and hey, "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl!"
New to Netflix in September are two kinds of undead: Season 5 of "The Walking Dead" and the revived-from-cancellation A&E series, "Longmire," which was saved by Netflix.Īs far as movies, there's the restored version of the Oscar-winning 1962 epic " Lawrence of Arabia," Wes Anderson's " Moonrise Kingdom," the first three "Rambo" films, the terrific "The Bank Job" with Jason Statham and "Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom" with Idris Elba.