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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #110 on: June 06, 2006, 10:06:31 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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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #111 on: June 06, 2006, 06:34:39 pm »
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?

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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #112 on: June 06, 2006, 06:44:01 pm »
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.
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").

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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #113 on: June 07, 2006, 05:29:44 am »
I saw Both at our festival last night. It's not exactly gay-themed, so I've put my review in Anything Goes.

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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #114 on: June 11, 2006, 08:46:24 pm »
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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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #115 on: June 12, 2006, 06:26:15 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.
Here are the words:
  You're the top, You're Miss Pinkham's tonic
   You're the top, You're a high colonic
   You're the burning heat of a bridal suite in use,
   You're the tits of Venus, you're King Kong's penis
   You're self-abuse.

(and Lydia Pinkham's medicinal compound later got a song of its own, Lily the Pink.)
I found this in a review I wrote of a book about Cole Porter and Noel Coward, which I've posted on a thread of its own.


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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #116 on: June 24, 2006, 09:30:34 am »
Upon the recommendation of several of you, I added "Trick" to my collection and watched it for the first time last night.  I'm glad I did.

This is a sweet, romantic comedy telling the story of a one-night stand turning into something more.  I found myself smiling through much of it.  The production values are high. The performances vary from quite good (Christian Campbell, Tori Spelling) to adequate (J.P. Pitoc, but he's such a hunk that I didn't care), with a hilarious cameo from  Clinton Leupp as Miss Coco Peru, a drag queen character who has appeared in several other movies, including "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" (Coco has her own page at IMDB).

The end credits are shown with the original song "Trick of Fate" playing over them, and it's a great Whitney-Houstonesque number.  I was able to import it into my iTunes collection.

By the way, I also bought "Chuck and Buck" on your recommendation, and will be viewing it in the next few days.
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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #117 on: June 24, 2006, 10:54:29 pm »
I'm not gay, but may I continue posting anyway?  ;D

To add to Sommersturm, other gay-themed German movies:

* Echte Kerle (comedy)
* Aimée und Jaguar (2nd World War lesbian drama)
* Lola + Bilidikid (Turkish-German drama)
* Wir alleine zusammen mit Dir (AIDS, drama. With the brilliant Thomas Kretschmann)

Anyone mentioned/seen Johns? I think the grown up Lukas Haas is great in anything he does. There's also one of the early AIDS movies An Early Frost. All main characters are great.

Anyone seen/mentioned Touch Me (about AIDS, with Michael Vartan) and Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story? I liked them both.

Then there is Blood and Concrete, Forgive and Forget, Dreamers, Common Ground and Segunda Piel wich I haven't seen yet, but definitely want to. Anyone knows, if they are any good? Anyone seen C.R.A.Z.Y? It's coming to Belgium this week and I heard good stuff about it. Transamerica is hitting our screens this week too - I won't miss that one!

Long long time ago I saw a movie called Welcome home Bobby. I remember it being about a young man coming out of the closet, but not much else. Have never seen it again.

I'm still waiting for a DVD of Burnt Money..

Saw Victim once or twice, quite some time ago. Very hard and 'typical' for the 60s. Quite daring for Dirk Bogarde at the time, I thought.

Loved loved Lost Language of Cranes! Love Ben Daniels in it (he is the stepfather of 'Jamie' in Beautiful Thing and he has played gay again in Fanny and Elvis).

I did not know that Robert Sean Leonard's character in Dead Poets Society was gay!?



My incomplete list:

* Aimée und Jaguar (1999)
* And the Band Played On (1993)
* An Early Frost (TV) (1985)
* The Anniversary Party (2001)
* Another Country (1984)
* Apartment Zero (1988)
* As Good as It Gets (1997)
* Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
* Before Night Falls (2000)
* Bent (1997)
* Beautiful Thing (1996)
* Betrayal (1983)
* Big Eden (2000)
* Billy Elliot (2000)
* Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)
* The Birdcage (1996)
* Blood and Concrete (1991)
* Boys Don't Cry (1999)
* Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story (1997) (TV)
* Brokeback Mountain (2005)
* The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
* Cabaret (1972)
* Capote (2005) 
* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
* Citizen Cohn (1992) (TV) 
* Clan, Le (2004) (French)
* Coming Out (1989/I) (German)
* Common Ground (TV) (2000)
* Confusion des Genres (2000) (French)
* C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
* The Crying Game (1992)
* De-Lovely (2004)
* The Deep End (2001)
* Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
* Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992) (TV)
* The Dreamers (2003)
* Dress Gray (1986) (TV)  - haven't seen it yet
* The Dying Gaul (2005) - haven't seen it yet
* Echte Kerle (1996) (German)
* Edward II (1991)
* Endgame (2001) 
* Enduring Love (2004) 
* Execution of Justice (1999) (TV) - haven't seen it yet
* Family Album (1994) (TV)
* Fanny and Elvis (1999)
* Far from Heaven (2002)
* A Fatal Inversion (1992) (TV)
* Fate ignoranti, Le (2001) (Italian)
* Fils préféré, Le (1994) (French)
* Flawless (1999)
* Food of Love (2002)
* Forgive and Forget (2000) (TV) - haven't seen it yet
* Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
* Fresa y chocolate (1994)
* Go (1999)
* Gods and Monsters (1998)
* Grande école (2004) (French) - haven't seen it yet
* Hamam (1997)
* Happy Endings (2005) 
* Head On (1998) - haven't seen it yet
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
* The Heidi Chronicles (1995) (TV)
* Heights (2004) - haven't seen it yet
* Hollow Reed (1996)
* A Home at the End of the World (2004)
* Homme que j'aime, L' (1997) (TV) (French)
* Hsi yen (1993)
* I Think I Do (1997)
* In & Out (1997)
* In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
* Infidèles, Les (1997) (TV) (French)
* It's My Party (1996)
* Jack (2004) (TV) - haven't seen it yet
* Jeffrey (1995)
* Johns (1996)
* Juste une question d'amour (2000) (TV) (French)
* Kinsey (2004) 
* Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
* Krámpack (2000) - haven't seen it yet
* L.I.E. (2001) - haven't seen it yet
* The Laramie Project (2002) 
* Latter Days (2003) 
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Ley del deseo, La (1987) (Spanish)
* Like It Is (1998) - haven't seen it yet
* Lola + Bilidikid (1999) (German)
* Longtime Companion (1990)
* The Lords of Discipline (1983)  - haven't seen it yet
* The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) (TV)
* Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
* Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
* M. Butterfly (1993)
* M.O. of M.I. (2002) - haven't seen it yet
* Ma vie en rose (1997) (French) - haven't seen it yet
* Madagascar Skin (1995) - haven't seen it yet
* Making Love (1982)
* Mambo italiano (2003) 
* Marciando nel buio (1995) - haven't seen it yet
* Maurice (1987)
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
* Mirrors (1985) (TV)
* Morte a Venezia (1971)
* Mulholland Dr. (2001)
* My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
* My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
* Mysterious Skin (2004)
* The Next Best Thing (2000)
* The Object of My Affection (1998)
* The Opposite of Sex (1998)
* Our Sons (1991) (TV) - haven't seen it yet
* Pédale douce (1996) (French)
* Parting Glances (1986)
* The Perfect Son (2000) - haven't seen it yet
* Peter's Friends (1992)
* Philadelphia (1993)
* Plata quemada (2000)
* Presque rien (2000) (French) - haven't seen it yet
* The Price of Love (1995) (TV)
* Priest (1994)
* Proof (1991) (homoerotic)
* The Rules of Attraction (2002)
* Segunda piel (1999)
* Signes de vie (2001) (TV) (French)
* Sommersturm (2004) (German)
* The Sum of Us (1994)
* Swoon (1992)
* The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
* Tarnation (2003) - haven't seen it yet
* Third Man Out (2005) (TV) - haven't seen it yet
* Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
* Touch Me (1997)
* Touch of Pink (2004)
* Tout contre Léo (2002) (TV) (French) - haven't seen it yet
* Transamerica (2005) - haven't seen it yet
* Trembling Before G-d (2001) - haven't seen it yet
* Trick (1999) 
* The Trip (2002/I)
* The Unknown Cyclist (1998) - haven't seen it yet
* Urbania (2000)
* Un Amour A Taire (TV) (2005) (French)
* Victim (1961)
* Walk on Water (2004) - haven't seen it yet
* Wilde (1997)
* Wir zusammen allein mit dir (1995) (TV) (German)
* Yossi & Jagger (2002)
* Zurück auf Los! (2000) (German)


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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #118 on: June 25, 2006, 06:18:04 pm »
Hello everyone-
thanks for the great list of movies. Many I have not seen, but will certainly try to now.

I just wanted to ask (and I apologize if it's been mentioned) if anyone has ever seen the Canadian movie, "Lilies"? It is based on a play about a priest who comes to hear a dying prisoner's confession- the prisoner turning out to be his boyhood crush.
It was recommended to me at Netflix and I put it in my queue, but I can't always trust the reviews there.
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Re: Other gay-themed movies
« Reply #119 on: June 25, 2006, 07:26:45 pm »
I'm freezing this thread temporarily.  It will re-open sometime tomorrow, with an explanation about what's going on, promise.  Please be patient with me.  Thanks!
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