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"A Single Man" (beware spoilers)
Lumière:
There's still no sign that "A Single Man" will ever get to a theatre around here.
Still check for it often though.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: sfericsf on January 11, 2010, 03:15:03 pm ---I hear what you're saying Paul. I wonder if we'll ever have another "cross-over" movie about us. :-\ That's why Brokeback was so important to me. I knew it's phenomonom would most likely never be repeated.
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I think there will be more crossover movies as time goes on. I think that movies that feature sexual minorities in situations that are universal will have the broadest appeal, and be more successful at reaching crossover audiences. It might take more time before films that are about issues unique to sexual minorities to achieve crossover strength, but its hard to say. Sometimes a film gains a mass audience on the merits of the film-making and the strength of the marketing and distribution.
Lumière:
--- Quote from: Lumière on January 12, 2010, 02:13:02 pm ---There's still no sign that "A Single Man" will ever get to a theatre around here.
Still check for it often though.
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It is now playing at an art theatre over here!!
Will be back with my thoughts after I've seen it. :)
Ellemeno:
I'm going to see it tomorrow, for a lot less than the twelve effin fifty that the Paris charged. No steaming cauldron of fondue après, however.
I'm excited. It's the only movie out right now that I really want to see.
Ellemeno:
I loved it. I want to see it again.
When Kenny bought George a blue pencil sharpener, I thought of our new BetterMost "Blue!" thread.
For he loved a little dog. Two of them. :( It was so sad that even his dogs were suddenly gone.
It takes place in 1962, a year before Jack and Ennis meet. But their lives are so different - instead of Old Rose, it's Tanqueray.
When Jim said, that unlike George, he really had never slept with any women when he was younger, I liked George's reply, "You're awfully modern. Aren't you?"
George doesn't seem fearful of people thinking he's gay - he seems only amused that his neighbor called him 'light in the loafers.' Or to tell the bartender that he was changing his mind and staying at the bar, because cute Kenny showed up.
I was struck by how drawn to George so many people were, how well liked and well-thought of he was - even by the bank-teller.
Julianne Moore and the Charley character - ugh. Tom Ford knows how to do coiffed as well as anyone in the world, obviously, and that falling apart mess on top of Charley's head was so poignant. And that painfully over-applied eyeliner and cracking lipstick. And that little wiggle action she did in front of the mirror. And the bitter, deliberately shitty remarks.
And what about that one nearly thrown-away line Charley said, "You should take that position at Stanford." !
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