Staff Picks: Gasps, Giant Cubes, Gay Bars

Toshio Matsumoto’s masterly 1969 debut about queer life in Toyko, , has been playing in a beautiful new restoration this week at Quad Cinema; I walked down from our office just a few days ago to see it.  follows Eddie, a small-framed, sensual, nonconforming bar hostess, whose job at a gay bar is complicated by a troubling love triangle and traumatic memories she can’t forget. Late-night rousing with her pot-smoking leftist friends doesn’t alleviate her anxieties. Much of the movie leavesis, as  says, a “.” —