The Birdcage with Kyle Stevens

Jordan and Brooke are rejoined by film and TV professor Kyle Stevens for Mike Nichols' 1996 masterpiece. Is this the best ratio of jokes per minute ever put to screen? How is every performance so pitch-perfect? How did Nichols & May's backgrounds inform the American adaptation? And why wasn't Nathan Lane immediately given an Oscar for this?Follow us on Twitter and IG! (And Jordan's Letterboxd / Brooke's Letterboxd)Follow Kyle on Twitter, and check out Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological RealismIn celebration of Pride Month, support Colage alongside us! 

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Four-quadrant films are movies designed to appeal to the biggest, widest audience possible. In the process, they can often leave out a lot of LGBTQ+ representation – but end up loaded with subtext. In The Queer Quadrant, hosts Brooke Solomon and Jordan Gustafson examine cinema in all its cultural contexts, and explore why your favorite four-quadrant blockbuster is maybe…not as straight as you think it is.