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Other gay-themed movies
squashcourt:
Hi,
Have you seen the movie MAURICE based on the English novelist E.M. Forster?
I remember seeing it on TV late 1990s (PBS). Hugh Grant was in it.
Not sure if available on DVD.
Story based on 2 Oxford students who meet.
Pierre - ;)
Shuggy:
--- Quote from: saucycobblers on November 27, 2006, 04:57:26 pm ---I find some of his work hard going, but it's always fascinating, unique and challenging. My favourite of those I've seen is 'The Last of England', although many consider 'War Requiem' his best - unfortunately I've not seen it yet.
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I HATED The Last of England. Sort of minimalist. I seem to remember some torture/beating and a lot of scenes in ruined buildings with stray bonfires in them. Made no sense to me at all and I just waited for it to finish, though I'm told it was an attack on Thatcher's Britain.
The Jarman work I remember, love, and would see again is Sebastian about the saint, presented in a very gay context: he's exiled to a bit of a wilderness for not having sex with the Emperor of Rome, but it's a wilderness populated by beautiful young gay men who spend a lot of the time naked, washing and scraping/shaving each other. Very erotic, except the ending where he gets shot with arrows (at least not erotic for me). It's in Latin which I have seen described as "schoolboy", but so's mine.
I haven't seen War Requiem but I'm told the soundtrack is the original Decca recording, with Pears, Fisher-Diskau and Galina Vishnevskaya (Mrs-slav Rostropovich), Britten conducting, which I know like the back of my hand.
brokeback-fan:
I know some of you have mentioned this movie, but Big Eden is the most wonderful gay movie I have seen. It is heartwarming and very touching. Some people would say it is like a fairy tale (NPI), but that is what movies are for. I LOVE this movie. Arye Gross is so sweet in this movie - very lovable. I swooned over Eric Schweig! He is one sexy Native American! Netflix it today. :)
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on January 12, 2007, 04:45:42 pm ---I HATED The Last of England. Sort of minimalist. I seem to remember some torture/beating and a lot of scenes in ruined buildings with stray bonfires in them. Made no sense to me at all and I just waited for it to finish, though I'm told it was an attack on Thatcher's Britain.
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I think maybe, like I did, you have to have grown up in Thatcher's Britain for it to really resonate. My students, who obviously didn't, had a hard time with it too - and I only showed them 15 minutes of it. ::) A child of its time perhaps.
It really pisses me off that British TV never shows any of his work as a lot of it isn't available on region 2 DVD either. Sebastian sounds really interesting...
ekeby:
saw The History Boys tonight . . . really liked it... very smart movie . . . .highly recommended
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