Alonso Duralde

Alonso Duralde

Birthday: 1967-05-18

Place of Birth: East Point, Georgia, USA

Biography: Alonso Duralde is the author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men (Advocate Books) and Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas (Limelight Editions). He is the film critic for The Wrap/Reuters and has written about film for Movieline, Salon, MSNBC.com, and HitFix, among many other publications. He also co-hosts the Linoleum Knife podcast and regularly appears on What the Flick?! (The Young Turks Network). Duralde also serves as Senior Programmer for the Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and as a pre-screener for the Sundance Film Festival; he is also a consultant for the USA Film Festival/Dallas, where he spent five years as Artistic Director. A former Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Advocate, Duralde was a regular contributor to The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current and has been featured in documentaries for TCM (Merry Christmas!), Current, (50 Documentaries to See Before You Die), IFC (Indie Sex, Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema) and Starz (Sex and the Cinema, In the Gutter), as well as on the special features of the Brokeback Mountain and Valley of the Dolls DVDs. He lives in an awesome rent-controlled apartment with his husband Dave White, author of the very funny memoir Exile in Guyville.

Movies

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas!

A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! is a tinsel-filled journey through the most iconic holiday f...

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A Brief History of Gay and Lesbian Cinema
A Brief History of Gay and Lesbian Cinema

In this FilmStruck Original, film critic and What the Flick?! host Alonso Duralde discusses the evol...

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to...

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The Real Story of Christmas
The Real Story of Christmas

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revele...

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Pornography
Pornography

A Thriller weaves together three different but curiously related stories centering on the mysterious...

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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Here’s Looking at You, Boy

Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film....

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Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Starz Inside: In the Gutter

From the moment Shakespeare wrote his first fart joke, audiences have loved gross-out humor. In this...

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The Fabulous Allan Carr
The Fabulous Allan Carr

Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw th...

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Doc of Chucky
Doc of Chucky

The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don...

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Best Christmas Movies Ever!
Best Christmas Movies Ever!

Over 50 stars, writers, athletes, directors and critics share the spirit of the season....

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Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'
Gotta Get Off This Merry-Go-Round: 'Valley of the Dolls'

We look at why Valley of the Dolls is so beloved and appreciated, both for its "badness" and hidden ...

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Indie Sex: Teens
Indie Sex: Teens

Underage sexual activity is one of the most taboo subjects on screen. The film traces the history an...

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