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Other gay-themed movies
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: Lucise on October 19, 2006, 07:02:56 pm ---Hey Dafna ..
The Latter Days novel was adapted from CJ Cox's screenplay for the movie! I am dying to get my hands on that one. ;) Like you, I am building my movie collection considerably these days and I havent been to the theatre in months actually!
One movie that I have not yet found the courage to watch again is Mysterious Skin. It was very well-done but hard to watch. I'll have to suck it up and watch it again one of these days. Joseph Gordon-Levitt (aka "Ryder" in Latter Days) gave a phenomenal performance in it! Quite the talented young actor he is!
Please don't get me started about that song .. ;) I get a lump in my throat everytime I watch it!
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btw, the score for Mysterious Skin is amazing.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=62829836&s=143441
Impish:
I added (and watched) Big Eden last night.
This is a tender-hearted movie with a feel-good ending. Good performances all around, and top-notch production values. I'm delighted to own this film.
I was touched by the community in Big Eden: oh! if only there really was a small town where straight people are so accepting of gay people! To be honest, this required a lot of suspension of disbelief on my part. Still, it's a beautiful fantasy, and I hope that it served as a type of role model for any small-town folk that have seen it.
[NB: spoilers in this paragraph] It's not a flawless movie by any means; the script in particular doesn't show enough of Henry's growing love for Pike. The final scene doesn't really make sense because of that, when I think about it...
But then again, I don't really want to think about it. :P I got my happy ending, and was glad of it.
ekeby:
--- Quote from: Dafna link=topic=89.msg102196#msgjavascript:void(0);102196 date=1161296396 ---Lucise, I also order too many movies from Amazon. :) But then again I like owning the movies so I can watch them over and over and rarely have I got one I didn't like.
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Speaking of buying movies. . . which I've finally started to do (Latter Days was the first, BBM second), I'm always looking for the best prices . . . a couple of you mention buying from Amazon, which I haven't done. Have bought a couple used on eBay, but lately I'm finding I can buy new cheaper at deepdiscountdvd.com, shipping is usually free (excessive or unknown shipping charges are a deal-killer for me). I've been looking for the 2-disc set Maurice; the cheapest I've found is deepdiscount:
http://search.deepdiscountdvd.com/search?p=Q&ts=custom&w=maurice&search.x=0&search.y=0
I wish I could find it cheaper . . . . (I'm poor!)
I've also been subscribing to a newsletter from the DVDtalk. Their site has a search feature that looks for titles and compares prices, but I don't know how thorough it is, maybe it's just of site sponsors. They also link to reviews which I've found helpful, because sometimes it's hard to know (from eBay, for example) if what's being sold is widescreen/fullscreen, has extras, etc. Here's their site:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/
I'd like to hear about other DVD buying resources from you guys . . .
Impish:
I buy mostly at DeepDiscountDVD, then Amazon (only when it is sometimes cheaper, which does happen from time to time). At Amazon, your order has to be $25 or more to get free shipping, but because I'm a serious collector, I'm always ordering several at a time.
Once in a blue moon, I buy from TLA Releasing. They almost never have the best prices, and shipping is never free, but they have the biggest selection of gay movies that I'm aware of. If I can't find a gay-themed movie elsewhere, I can always go there.
Pipedream:
This one has been discussed here before, but it deserves to be mentioned again: Y tu mamá tambien!
I've bought the dvd at the airport London Heathrow before I returned from the Euro Brokie meeting in September and just now watched it for the first time. I think it's fantastic, and the kissing scene between Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna must be one of the sexiest things ever put to film!
:)
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