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Other gay-themed movies
Shuggy:
--- Quote from: Impish on April 05, 2006, 10:50:56 am ---Saw the movie "Bent" last night, for the first time.
Very powerful stuff, quite depressing story,
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Saw it again with my man and friends the other night. Better the second time. I remembered it as piercingly sad, and this time I saw the uplifting parts better, especially the tiny signal Horst gives to Max just before he dies.
--- Quote --- but I'm glad there's a movie out there to remind people that Nazi's terrorized gay people too.
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Apparently the first inkling the west got of that was in the first film of The Producers (1968).
Impish:
Watched "Prick Up Your Ears" the biopic of Joe Orton, gay British playwright of the comedies "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" and "Loot," who was murdered by his "lover" (not the right word for their relationship) out of jealousy for Orton's success.
Gary Oldman portrays Orton, Alfred Molina his "longtime companion" and Vanessa Redgrave his agent. All three give strong performances.
A very good, strong, film. (Note: The title is the kind of double-entendre Orton was famous for.)
David:
Don't forget the "Broken Hearts Club" with heart throb Dean Cain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222850/
starboardlight:
--- Quote from: Shuggy on April 19, 2006, 05:34:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Impish on April 05, 2006, 10:50:56 am ---Saw the movie "Bent" last night, for the first time.
Very powerful stuff, quite depressing story,
--- End quote ---
Saw it again with my man and friends the other night. Better the second time. I remembered it as piercingly sad, and this time I saw the uplifting parts better, especially the tiny signal Horst gives to Max just before he dies.
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and the "sex" scene, where they're stand apart, is one of the sexiest thing to me. but yes, it's a quite beautiful film. I wish I'd seen the stage version, but I have a feeling the actual setting in the film helped it feel less austere. Actually seeing the sky in the background must help it to not be completely bleak.
TJ:
"The Sum of Us" was a very good movie. And, being the older man that I am, I liked Jack Thompson who played the gay man's father who tried to be a matchmaker for his gay son. Visually speaking, Thompson is my kind of sexy man. That movie is also about homophobia in society, too.
When "Cruising" was shown here in Tulsa, I was in the closet and it was shown at a theater in local large strip mall shopping center. A reporter with a camera from a local TV station was interviewing people who had gone to see it the afternoon I went. While I was not interviewed, I did appear on camera just long enough to be recognized by those who might have recognized me. But, since the entrance to the lobby was in a breezeway which led to more stores on the other side, if asked by someone who knew me, I could have lied and said that I merely walked past the theater. I went to see the movie because of the local publicity. I am not into the leather scene at all.
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