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Other gay-themed movies
JCinNYC2006:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on June 04, 2006, 04:12:10 am ---Our OutTakes GLBT film festival is now on. Some good movies that might not be released in your part of the US yet.
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Comedy:
Gay Volleyball saved my life quite funny.
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Wow, you've actually seen this? Someone from my volleyball league made it! I've never seen it though, how is it?
Juan
j.U.d.E.:
I saw "Mambo Italiano" yesterday for the very first time and I really liked it! I have read pretty bad, but also pretty good critics about it. Have you seen it? What did you think about it?
~ j U d E
j.U.d.E.:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on June 03, 2006, 02:41:27 am ---I was a bit disappointed by De-lovely. They downplayed his gayness in several ways: it was all off-camera, and definitely second-place to his marriage, which other biographies deny. And then they sneered at Night and Day for downplaying it more. According to one biography, "You're the Top" means just what it says. He also had some alternate words for use at private functions. If I can find them I'll post them here.
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You are right. I think I read some of his biography on the internet and they make it quite clear that his marriage was a marriage of convenience. It also says that many of his songs were about his gay love and he seemed to have had many more gay relationships in real life, than the ones 'shown' in the film. But still, I liked it and it made me 'discover' Cole Porter, who I only really knew about, because I had heard his name (a bit like Johnny Cash and the movie "Walk the Line").
~ j U d E
Shuggy:
I saw Both at our festival last night. It's not exactly gay-themed, so I've put my review in Anything Goes.
Shuggy:
Last two films at our GLBT festival, both features:
Loggerheads
A handsome blond arrives at Kure Beach, North Carolina, to look at the loggerhead turtles. A gay motelier saves him from arrest for sleeping on the beach and... Meanwhile* in Eden, NC, a minister's wife, a secret smoker, frets about her son, who has left home, and about the two men with a child who have moved in over the road, and about her wayward neighbour who has put a Michaelangelo's David replica in the front lawn "where anyone can see it". Meanwhile* a rental car dealer in another town quits her job and tries to find the son she gave up for adoption. (The NC closed adoption system is heartless.) These threads wind around each other, coming to a sad but satisfying conclusion. What makes for problems is the "meanwhile". From the subtitles, some of these things happen a year or more apart. My interpretation differed from my patrner's. Both the blond and the motelier are easy on the eye.
Night Watch
A young hustler in Buenos Aires has a variety of encounters, some rather strange, over the course of one night. He lives an edgy life among the scavangers, crooks, derelicts and people who get by. I thought this was going to be nothing but a series of Fellini-esque vignettes (the Beta gave trouble and some people walked out, probably left with that impression) but a final encounter just before dawn makes all the others clear. I'd only give this a C+: Acting adequate, story OK, cinematography hard to tell with our substandard projection. One sexual encounter - and the man he had it with - is quite hot (what follows is not). I didn't regret seeing it, nor feel wildly glad I did.
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