Beefcake

This portrait of the man who brought nude male flesh into the American mainstream combines present-day interviews, archival footage, and semi-fictionalized dramatization into a cinematic hybrid. Photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer (Daniel MacIvor) founded the Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, in Los ...more

For his follow-up to the harrowing The Hanging Garden, Canadian director Thom Fitzgerald turns to seemingly gentler subject matter in this combination of real-life documentary and based-on-a-true-story fiction, which transforms the history of the Athletic Model Guild of America into a gently humorous and ultimately melancholy portrait of an earlier age of masculine beauty. The character of Bob Mizer, the photographer who turned his obsession with nubile young male bodies into a cultural ...more