Pink Narcissus

Somewhere between "Scorpio Rising" — Kenneth Anger's 1964 paean to homoerotic fetishism — and the explicit gay porn that began appearing at the end of the decade, stands physique photographer-turned-filmmaker James Bidgood's nearly indescribable ode to male beauty. A handsome, self-obsessed young hustler (Bobby Kendall) lolls about his impossibly pink boudoir in various states of undress, gazing at his reflection, taking calls from clients and dreaming himself into a series of erotic tableaux. He imagines himself a strutting matador doing battle with a blond "bull" on a motorbike, then a harem boy entranced by the undulations of a dancing slave. But the o...