This is one man's adolescent self-involved riff of what he imagines to be all things gay hidden in the films of Rock Hudson, narrated as if he is Rock Hudson speaking in the first person. Criterion has inexplicably included this on the DVD & Blu-ray of "All That Heaven Allows", as if it's assumed the target audience for this film must have an arch camp sensibility that primarily appreciates Douglas Sirk (or Hudson or Wyman, or who knows? Agnes Moorehead?) from that angle. This is offensive and insulting to anyone who really likes this film or the people involved. It is disrespectful to the memory of Rock Hudson and a joke to gay people, film students, and any true lover of cinema. I used to think Criterion and others included supplementary material and audio commentaries of more abstruse scholars with the intention of being cutting-edge and providing an intellectual platform for further discussion. With "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" I wonder now if the purpose isn't just to include space for whoever can display the most spectacular masturbatory display towards the subject. There is nothing remotely intellectual or even intelligent in this supplement. Finally, I can't imagine who would actually enjoy watching this, outside of some stoned skateboarder steeped in "Cruising" while dressed in a poodle-skirt. Yeesh!
Review of Rock Hudson's Home Movies
