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All Man: The International Male Story

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ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog's unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men's fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions. This character-driven documentary crafts a portrait of a band of outsiders who changed the way men would look -- at themselves, at each other and how the world would look at them. This is their story -- a modern day fairy tale about a dream that really did come true.
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Elisabeth Vincentelli New York Times The film is more dutiful than artful, ticking one box after another, a tendency that is especially obvious when it ventures to the dark side... Jun 6, 2023 Full Review Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader All Man: The International Male Story offers a touching retrospect of this nearly forgotten landmark of men’s fashion. Jun 3, 2023 Full Review Manuel Betancourt Variety As a chronicle of a queer entrepreneurial success, the film is a delight — even, or perhaps especially, because it often sidesteps the thornier conversations its subject brings up Sep 28, 2022 Full Review Brittany Patrice Witherspoon Pop Culture Reviews All Man reveals a great history of a “magalog” that gave men the confidence they needed to exist as their true selves. And it is nothing short of sensational. Rated: 4/5 Jul 25, 2024 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall This magazine essentially created a whole new market of young men looking for forward-thinking clothing... The filmmakers also look beneath the almost outrageously fit surfaces, exploring pointed themes around sexuality and body consciousness. Rated: 3.5/5 Jun 13, 2023 Full Review Patrick McDonald HollywoodChicago.com The catalog caught a wave, the deeper expression in men’s fashions in the 1970s & ‘80s that eventually the male fashion world got to, & the doc lays in out in a "male order" delivery. Innovation and timing, the stuff of the American Dream. HAPPY PRIDE! Rated: 4/5 Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog's unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men's fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting. International Male reached gay and straight customers alike as it redefined images of masculinity in American culture, generating revenue and circulation in the millions. This character-driven documentary crafts a portrait of a band of outsiders who changed the way men would look -- at themselves, at each other and how the world would look at them. This is their story -- a modern day fairy tale about a dream that really did come true.
Director
Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed
Producer
Bryan Darling, Peter Jones, Jesse Finley Reed
Screenwriter
Peter Jones, Peter Jones
Production Co
Peter Jones Productions, Bright Eyes
Genre
Documentary, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 23m
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