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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
oilgun:
--- Quote from: brian on November 13, 2012, 03:39:08 am ---?????Jean Cocteau was male
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Yes, but oh so gay, lol!
Front-Ranger:
But what about Francois Truffault, Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard?
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 13, 2012, 09:36:46 am ---But what about Francois Truffault, Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard?
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The last Godard film I saw was Film Socialisme, and man, was it ever tough going! I'm afraid I just couldn't get into it. I suppose I should give it another chance but just the thought makes me anxious, lol!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN27Hhfkf6k[/youtube]
oilgun:
The first 4 minutes of Warm Bodies, the zombie love story starring Nicholas (A Single Man) Hoult!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_891246&feature=iv&src_vid=rARN6agiW7o&v=4GKzwcCbLCI[/youtube]
oilgun:
Tonight a local TV station was showing Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960) starring a bevy of sexy actors, including Alain Delon, in his prime, and Renato Salvatori. The film is an operatic and homoerotic melodrama and I highly recommend it!
Homoeroticism is blessedly rampant throughout Rocco. Someone once said that Visconti "cast with his dick," though unfortunately there's no footage of this process taking place. Still, the parade of gorgeous male flesh, the lingering close-ups on these men who are still somehow boys, supports the idea, giving the film a sensuality that sets it apart from other films of the period, Italian or not. When Simone, who has the unmistakable whiff of rough trade, takes a shower after a boxing match, it's a toss-up who's doing the heaviest cruise on his hunky form: the camera, as directed by Visconti; or the blatantly queer impresario who's "taken an interest" in Simone and his ample "natural gifts." The relationship of Rocco and Simone also plumbs the depths of homoerotic attachment, and Rocco's anguish at Simone's increasingly disastrous life — at one point he's a virtual rent boy — is one of the most moving elements in the film.
http://brightlightsfilm.com/39/rocco.php
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