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Other gay-themed movies
oilgun:
Excellent recommendations loneleeb3, I really enjoyed both Beautiful Thing and Latter Days.
Here's one to avoid:
Food of Love by Ventura Pons. It's an adaptation of David Leavitt's novella The Page Turner about a music student who falls in love with a concert pianist. It's one of the worst movies I've seen in quite a while. (Has Ventura Pons ever made a watchable film?) The actor who plays the page turner is so horrible that's it's actually embarrassing to watch. I think having a good actor in that role could have saved the film. Maybe. Juliet Stevenson, who can be good, is just annoying here as the over-bearing high-strung mother. The film although much of it is set in beautiful Barcelona feels like a bad TV movie. Also, for a movie about love, it doesn't have a hint of sensuality or eroticism. Thumbs down / 1 star out of 5 / hated it
PS: I also post on Dave Cullen so my apologies if you've been seeing my similar posts there.
Br. Patrick:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on January 08, 2008, 11:19:53 am ---The next is Latter Days! It is gut wrenching. It has some very powerful moments and some undeniable truths!
If you haven't seen these I suggest going to find them and watch them!
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Latter Days is an absolutely fantastic film that every Brokie should watch because it is so positive and it has a really happy ending. It's Sexy and also contains real Spiritual truths conveyed in an incredibly beautiful way! It has great music and if you like the film, (and I can't imagine a Brokie who wouldn't) you'll probably also want the Soundtrack. It is just Great. ***** 5 Stars for me~!
{{{Cyberhugs}}} :) :P ::)
br. p
Artiste:
Oilgun, can we see clips, trailers, etc., on YouTube or elsewhere about these two gay films, oui, oui??
As you say: I finally found a copy of a French gay film from 1983 that really had an impact on me when I first saw it. It's called L'Homme Blessé - The Wounded Man. The director is Patrice Chéreau who went on to do Queen Margot & Intimacy, his only english language film and the strangely affecting Son Frère another gay-themed film from 2005.
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Hugs! And how do you add pics on Bettermost?
oilgun:
--- Quote from: Artiste on January 08, 2008, 11:59:41 pm ---Oilgun, can we see clips, trailers, etc., on YouTube or elsewhere about these two gay films, oui, oui??
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I haven't come across anything but let me know if you do.
--- Quote --- And how do you add pics on Bettermost?
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What I do is upload images to Photobucket.com (it's free to register). Then I just copy & paste the link provided which looks like this, but without the spaces inside the square brackets:
[ IMG ]http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/oilgun/scorpio_rising-2.jpg[ /IMG ]
Correctly, without the spaces, the above link gives me this:
moremojo:
--- Quote from: oilgun on December 14, 2007, 11:51:43 pm ---Has anyone here seen or heard of it?
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I have heard of this film by Chereau (who is himself a gay man) but have never seen it. Critic David Ehrenstein (also gay) thinks very highly of it, and recently contrasted if favorably with the (to his mind and mine) homophobic 1980 feature Cruising, which apparently treads similar thematic ground. Here are two pertinent comments from Ehrenstein relating to Chereau's film which appeared on the online discussion group 'A Film By':
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_film_by/message/47365
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_film_by/message/47397
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