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My favorite gay movies
« on: September 25, 2007, 11:52:29 am »
I thought I'd start up this thread.

I'm excluding BBM as it's my obvious favorite

No partiular order.

1) EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

2) ANGELS IN AMERICA (a mini series, I know)

3) MAURICE

4) BROKEN HEARTS CLUB

5) PARTING GLANCES

6) ANOTHER COUNTRY

7) LONGTIME COMPANIONS

8) My Beautiful Laundrette

9) CONSENTING ADULT (ABC made for TV movie, groundbreaking at the time)

10) LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND

11) BIG EDEN

12) BURNT MONEY

13) GODS AND MONSTERS

14) WILDE

15) STRAIGHT-JACKET.  (What would have happened if Rock Hudson type actor had been outed in the 1950's. It's a comedy-drama)

16)  I've enjoyed the BOY's LIFE & BOY's SHORTseries  and many other films  (never put on DVD) I've seen at G/L festivals.

I wish I could include some foreign gay movies, but with the exception of BURNT MONEY, I've having a hard time coming up with any. I know many have been made.

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 01:06:10 pm »
I thought I'd start up this thread.

I'm excluding BBM as it's my obvious favorite

No partiular order.

1) EDGE OF SEVENTEEN

2) ANGELS IN AMERICA (a mini series, I know)

3) MAURICE

4) BROKEN HEARTS CLUB

5) PARTING GLANCES

6) ANOTHER COUNTRY

7) LONGTIME COMPANIONS

8) My Beautiful Laundrette

9) CONSENTING ADULT (ABC made for TV movie, groundbreaking at the time)

10) LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND

11) BIG EDEN

12) BURNT MONEY

13) GODS AND MONSTERS

14) WILDE

15) STRAIGHT-JACKET.  (What would have happened if Rock Hudson type actor had been outed in the 1950's. It's a comedy-drama)

16)  I've enjoyed the BOY's LIFE & BOY's SHORTseries  and many other films  (never put on DVD) I've seen at G/L festivals.

I wish I could include some foreign gay movies, but with the exception of BURNT MONEY, I've having a hard time coming up with any. I know many have been made.

To Kd5000's  list I would add these favorites

The Sum of Us
Priest
Trick
Shallow Reed
Beautiful Thing
Tipping the  Velvet
Latter Days
Velvet Goldmine
When Night Is Falling
Torch Song Trilogy
Aimée & Jaguar
Boys Don't Cry
Transamerica


I know there are more good ones
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 04:18:58 pm »
To Kd5000's  list I would add these favorites

The Sum of Us
Priest
Trick
Shallow Reed
Beautiful Thing
Tipping the  Velvet
Latter Days
Velvet Goldmine
When Night Is Falling
Torch Song Trilogy
Aimée & Jaguar
Boys Don't Cry
Transamerica


I know there are more good ones

I don't know many!
Number one would have to be Brokeback Mountain! LOL!!

I liked Jeffery
Loved Torch Song Trilogy
A home at the end of the world
The living end ( I think thats the name)
Come back to the 5 and dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean.
The Fluffer.
Different for girls.
The Mudge Boy (that was sad though)
There are others but I can't think of them now.



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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 10:30:58 pm »
Yossi & Jagger
Big Eden
My Beautiful Laundrette
Velvet Goldmine
Queer As Folk
Tales Of The City (from the first book)
Latter Days
Walk On Water (not as gay as it should have been)

I"ll leave BBM off the list for obvious reasons also!  :)

I'm sure I'm missing something.

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 10:42:57 pm »
All Over the Guy!!
I LOVE that movie!
Richard Riccolo is so Fing hot!!
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2007, 12:04:15 am »
I'm still working my way through a long list of GLBT-themed movies, making up for the dark years, but here are a few so far besides BBM:

Boys Don't Cry
Chasing Amy
Gods and Monsters
Latter Days
Lilies
Loggerheads
Longtime Companion
Mysterious Skin
The Laramie Project
The Wedding Banquet
Transamerica
Trick
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2007, 08:57:37 am »

My favourite gay movies are:

* Brokeback Mountain

* Beautiful Thing

* Maurice

* Alexander (2004)

* The Naked Civil Servant

* Death in Venice

* Priest

* The Sum of Us

* Cabaret

* Happy Texas

* Mambo Italiano

* Fellini Satyricon

* Ludwig

 ??? I'm sure I've forgotten some.  ::)

My favourite gay television series are:

* Brideshead Revisited

* Tales of the City
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2007, 09:05:50 am »
How could I forget Sordid Lives???
That is the funniest movie I have ever seen!
If you haven't seenit you should.
So quintessentially southern!
I see so much of my family in it! LOL
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2007, 10:31:01 pm »
How could I forget Sordid Lives???
That is the funniest movie I have ever seen!
If you haven't seenit you should.
So quintessentially southern!
I see so much of my family in it! LOL

Ain't that the truth?! Maybe we're kin!!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2007, 10:32:19 pm »
Ain't that the truth?! Maybe we're kin!!  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Could be!!
You know how us southern folks are!! LOL  ;D  ;D
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2007, 11:19:12 pm »
I don't think anyone has mentioned Billy Elliott yet but that is one of my favorite movies. Would it be at home here?
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2007, 11:22:07 pm »
Kerry your list is great, I'm stealing some!  I love a bunch of movies that everyone's mentioned, but on top of the ones you mentioned, I love these flicks too:

* Brideshead Revisited - first gay themed movie I ever saw, I was glued to the TV even after the focus shifted the lead character's other relationships.

* Maurice - Another early film, I loved Merchant Ivory's Forster trilogy but this one resonated in a different way for me (Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder)

* The Boys In The Band - I saw this way after it was in theaters. Some people find it dated, but I think it's still pretty relevant.

* Priest - Really well done exploration of sexuality and priesthood, and the first time I'd ever seen the heavenly Linus Roach!

* Mambo Italiano - Very charming, a bit like Big Fat Greek Wedding but quirky and with a nice voice of its own.

* Tales of the City - the first chapter of the series was the best for me, made me love San Fran even more than I already do.

* Beautiful Thing - incredibly sweet coming of age story, and looove those sexy South London accents. I saw an off-Broadway version of the play, very fun too.

* Victim - excellent movie from the 60s starring Dirk Bogarde as a married lawyer who fights back against blackmailers.  Very ahead of its time.

* Torch Song Trilogy - I saw the play first, it changed my view of what being gay could be. Great adaptation.

* Urbania - very dark, not a typical happy-go-lucky gay film.

* Come Undone - also a dark coming of age story, tres French

* Hedwig and the Angry Inch - really innovative movie musical with a twisted, moving story

* The Mudge Boy - another moody coming of age film, what can I say, I love em.

* In The Blood - saw this in a film festival, nice psychological thriller with a gay twist...coming to Logo soon!

* Parting Glances - another overlooked groundbreaker from 86, Steve Buscemi is in it!

* Brokeback Mountain - little known film about some gay cowpokes

* Notes On A Scandal - Judi Dench vs. Cate Blanchett...to the death!!

I'm sure there are tons of others I can't think of right now, my brain hurts....

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2007, 01:35:32 am »
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. Here's one more....

The Unknown Cyclist  It's a wonderful mixture of comedy and drama and I could watch the ending over and over again. It has a good cast too. I have had a serious crush on Danny Nucci for years. Well, he's in it, along with Lea Thompson, Vincent Spano and Stephen Spinella. If you've never seen it, you should watch it.  :)
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2007, 10:36:00 am »
This is in no particular order (except BBM is no. 1 8) )

- BBM (of course)
-Bound
-The Hours
-Maurice
-Tipping the Velvet (mini-series)
-Fingersmith (mini-series)
-Mrs. Dalloway
-Hedwig and the Angry Inch
-Trick
-Aimee and Jaguar
-Velvet Goldmine
-Gia
-But I'm a Cheerleader (very silly, but fun)
-All Over Me
-My Summer of Love
-L Word (TV show)
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2007, 10:56:06 am »
* Brideshead Revisited - first gay themed movie I ever saw, I was glued to the TV even after the focus shifted the lead character's other relationships.

I too was absolutely captivated by "Brideshead Revisited." The breathtakingly beautiful setting of Castle Howard in Yorkshire and that unforgettable musical score. Who could ever forget it?

I had already fallen in love with the book by Evelyn Waugh, long before the television series appeared in the 70s. I love this description by Charles (Jeremy Irons), of his first sighting of Sebastian (Anthony Andrews) at Oxford:

I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. This was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds. My first sight of him was in the door of Germer's, and, on that occasion, I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear.

"That," said the barber, as I took his chair, "was Lord Sebastian Flyte. A most amusing young gentleman."

"Apparently," I said coldly.

"The Marquis of Marchmain's second boy. His brother, the Earl of Brideshead, went down last term. Now he was very different. A very quiet gentleman, quite like an old man. What do you suppose Lord Sebastian wanted? A hair brush for his teddy-bear; it had to have very stiff bristles, not, Lord Sebastian said, to brush him with, but to threaten him with a spanking when he was sulky. He bought a very nice one with an ivory handle and he's having 'Aloysius' engraved on it - that's the bear's name."

The man, who, in his time, had had ample chance to tire of undergraduate fantasy, was plainly captivated.


Evelyn Waugh at his best.  :D

* Maurice - Another early film, I loved Merchant Ivory's Forster trilogy but this one resonated in a different way for me (Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder Scudder)

Ah, yes, the gorgeous Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves) waiting for Maurice (James Wilby) at the boathouse! Unforgettable! Sigh!  :-*

* The Boys In The Band - I saw this way after it was in theaters. Some people find it dated, but I think it's still pretty relevant.

I don't believe I forgot "The Boys in the Band"!  ::)  The play had a very long run in Sydney in the late 60s/early 70s and I saw it many times (lost count how many). And I love the film with the original Broadway cast. I can still quote entire sections of TBITB verbatim and even started a TBITB thread here at BetterMost several months ago, primarily to memorialise Mart Crowley's wonderful play.   :D

* Priest - Really well done exploration of sexuality and priesthood, and the first time I'd ever seen the heavenly Linus Roach!

Sigh! Linus Roach! Double sigh!  :-*
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2007, 12:01:57 pm »
In no particular order (and I'm including lesbian and bisexual themes under the rubric of 'gay'):

Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee

Un chant d'amour (1950), directed by Jean Genet

Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972), directed by Werner Schroeter

The Scenic Route (1978), directed by Mark Rappaport

Beau travail (1999), directed by Claire Denis

Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974), directed by Jacques Rivette

Loads (1985), directed by Curt McDowell

Eclipse of the Sun Virgin (1967), directed by George Kuchar

Love and Death on Long Island (1997), directed by Richard Kwietniowski

Performance (1970), directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), directed by Peter Weir

Fellini-Satyricon (1969), directed by Federico Fellini

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« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2007, 12:04:09 pm »
I don't think anyone has mentioned Billy Elliott yet but that is one of my favorite movies. Would it be at home here?
I think it merits inclusion here.

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« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2007, 12:30:18 pm »
I think it merits inclusion here.

Thank you. I was thinking maybe I had interpreted the movie all wrong.
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2007, 03:15:38 pm »
Did anyone ever see TOTAL ECLIPSE with Leonardo DiCaprio.  It's about the gay poet RIMBAUD.   The movie was terrible and it should have made a great story.  I don't think Leo is going to be playing gay anytime soon as he been taking all these tough guy roles. Something to prove, I say.  :D Still, TOTAL ECLIPSE is a missed opportunity.  I hope somebody makes a better movie about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114702/

I could start a listing of worse gay movies ever made, but the list is pretty long. 

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« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2007, 03:37:09 pm »
Yeah, I caught most of Total Eclipse on cable TV many moons ago. I agree that the film wasn't very successful, though Leo does physically resemble Rimbaud, and David Thewlis (as Verlaine) is always an interesting actor.

Very few of my very favorite movies are gay in theme (Brokeback Mountain being one of the major exceptions to this). Many have struck me as mediocre at best, and I'm not quite sure why this has been the case. Most of the titles in my list (which all are included among my favorite movies, gay or otherwise) were not and would not be considered mainstream offerings--so much of mainstream gay cinema strikes me as distinctly middlebrow and not having a lot of enduring value.

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« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2007, 09:47:07 pm »
Obviously I need to catch up on some of these movies since there are many I have never even heard of that every one is mentioning. What was Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean about? Was that the one where the three draq queens were going across the country in a great big Cadillac and the car broke down in a small town?

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« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2007, 09:57:43 pm »
No, you're thinking of To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995), starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo. This was more or less a remake of the 1994 Australian feature The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In spite of all the charms of the former title, I think Priscilla is a more nuanced and rewarding film.

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« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2007, 10:02:50 pm »
* Beautiful Thing - incredibly sweet coming of age story, and looove those sexy South London accents. I saw an off-Broadway version of the play, very fun too.

I saw the stage play too but didn't enjoy it as much as the movie.
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« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2007, 10:19:32 pm »
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), directed by Peter Weir

Ah, yes, "Picnic at Hanging Rock." One of my favourite Australian movies. So atmospheric and mysterious. And who could ever forget that beautiful main theme on the pan pipes? Exquisite. Having said that, however, can it actually be classified as a "gay movie"? I mean, certainly, it's set around a group of school girls having a picnic and Miranda is particularly beautiful, but I can't specifically recall any "gay" content. Would you also consider "The Devil's Playground" to be a gay movie, Scott? Personally, I would not, even though it is set in a Catholic boys' boarding school. I am open to persuasion here. It's been a long time since I saw either movie.
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« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2007, 10:57:20 am »
Brokeback Mountain

Sordid Lives

Jeffrey

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Priscilla, QOTD

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« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2007, 11:03:56 am »
Last nite I heard about a film called Big Eden. Anybody seen this?
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« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2007, 03:09:02 pm »
Obviously I need to catch up on some of these movies since there are many I have never even heard of that every one is mentioning. What was Come Back to the 5 and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean about? Was that the one where the three draq queens were going across the country in a great big Cadillac and the car broke down in a small town?
Robert Altman directed this low-budget film version of the play by Ed Graczyk, also directed by Altman on Broadway with the same cast. The film takes place in the small Texas town of McCarthy in 1975. Inside of a five-and-dime store, a reunion is planned for the members of a local 1950s James Dean fan club. An odd assortment of women arrive, revealing hidden secrets, as Altman flashes back, showing the women as young James Dean fans, and then jumps forward to present day to reveal the ravages of time and lost innocence. Among the women returning for the reunion is Mona (Sandy Dennis), a disturbed woman who, in the '50s, got a job as an extra on the Giant shoot and nine months later gave birth to a son, who she claims is James Dean's child. There is Sissy (Cher), a wisecracking waitress, and also Joanne (Karen Black), who holds a shocking secret that is revealed at the reunion. Besides the three main players, a collection of supporting characters maneuver around the periphery. They are Stella Mae (Kathy Bates), the wife of a rich petroleum executive; Edna Louise (Marta Heflin), a shy, withdrawn woman with numerous children; Juanita (Sudie Bond), the manager of the five-and-dime store; and Joe Qualley (Mark Patton), a young man who likes to dress up in women's clothing.


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« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2007, 03:36:56 pm »
I would say Big Eden is a MUST SEE for story, scenery and music :D
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« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2007, 03:47:34 pm »
Mine would be:

1. Long Time Companion: Because the sense of community it showed inspired me to accept myself. 16 years later I finally found Bettermost.

2. Brokeback Mountain: Because it showed this thing could hapen to regular, everyday, poor, uneducated people outside of a major city, and over a long period that most of us have lived thru.

3. Latter Days: Because it is a charming tale and has hot actors and a sense of hope.

4. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Because it is just funny as hell.

5. Capote: All my life people called me Truman Capote, and it would make me mad and finally one day I asked one of them if they knew who he was, nope, not a clue, it was just something they said. Now them fuckers can see this movie and see what a brave little faggot he was, and how human he was and the price he paid to get that story.

6.The Color Purple: Because it contains a line, I think it goes: "Miss Shug is a flower and I am a bee". But mostly, like Brokeback, it depicts same sex lonve betwixt disenfranchised Afraican American women in the south in earlier times.

7. The Sum of Us: Because it show what it could be like if we had cool parents.

8. Jeffery: Because it has the line "Who is Martha Stewart?" There needs to be more people like that.

9. A Beautiful Thing: Because in the end everyone is dancing.

10. Sordid Lives: When that guy busts into the nut house and rescues Brother Boy after all them years, it made me cry, just a little bit.

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« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2007, 03:53:04 pm »


       Sordid Lives, I own that movie.  I love it.  My son and his wife gave me that for Christmas one year after I told them how much I loved it.  It is so funny...The woman with the rubber band...oww.LOL



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« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2007, 03:56:21 pm »

       Sordid Lives, I own that movie.  I love it.  My son and his wife gave me that for Christmas one year after I told them how much I loved it.  It is so funny...The woman with the rubber band...oww.LOL


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« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2007, 01:08:57 pm »
Ah, yes, "Picnic at Hanging Rock." One of my favourite Australian movies. So atmospheric and mysterious. And who could ever forget that beautiful main theme on the pan pipes? Exquisite. Having said that, however, can it actually be classified as a "gay movie"? I mean, certainly, it's set around a group of school girls having a picnic and Miranda is particularly beautiful, but I can't specifically recall any "gay" content. Would you also consider "The Devil's Playground" to be a gay movie, Scott? Personally, I would not, even though it is set in a Catholic boys' boarding school. I am open to persuasion here. It's been a long time since I saw either movie.
Oh, I think there's a definite lesbian undercurrent to the film. In the opening scenes, when the girls are preparing for their Valentine's Day outing, you see some of them reading Valentine cards to each other, with obvious emotional investment in the exchange. Also, the girls are all more or less infatuated with Miranda, the school favorite, especially Sara, who is probably the most bereaved of all following Miranda's mysterious disappearance.

As for The Devil's Playground, that's one I haven't caught up with yet.

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« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2007, 04:33:31 pm »
What about REBECCA?

Mrs. Danvers showing the undergarments of Rebecca to The Second Mrs. de Winter.  Obviously, Mrs Danvers had a thing for Rebecca.   That said, I don't think that makes it a gay movie.  Oh Hitchcock had pscho gays in ROPE or STRANGER ON A TRAIN, but the censors only allowed so much.  I wonder if audiences in the 1950's picked up on the two guys in ROPE?   I guess it really had to be in their face for them to "get it."

An older person told me audiences were quite shocked when ADVISE AND CONSENT had the first scene ever to take place inside a gay bar.  The public thought the decor would be much much nicer.  ;)

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« Reply #33 on: October 01, 2007, 04:46:32 pm »
What about REBECCA?

Mrs. Danvers showing the undergarments of Rebecca to The Second Mrs. de Winter.  Obviously, Mrs Danvers had a thing for Rebecca.   That said, I don't think that makes it a gay movie.  Oh Hitchcock had pscho gays in ROPE or STRANGER ON A TRAIN, but the censors only allowed so much.  I wonder if audiences in the 1950's picked up on the two guys in ROPE?   I guess it really had to be in their face for them to "get it."

An older person told me audiences were quite shocked when ADVISE AND CONSENT had the first scene ever to take place inside a gay bar.  The public thought the decor would be much much nicer.  ;)

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I don't think I've seen ROPE before. It's not ringing any bells. I'll check it out sometime and I'll watch for that scene you described.

Another quasi gay movie is The Color Purple. There is a very obvious lesbian scene between Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and Shug (Margaret Avery) towards the end of the movie. The Color Purple was made in 1985, so the exchange between the two ladies is very toned down, but it's there all the same.  :D


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« Reply #34 on: October 01, 2007, 04:52:18 pm »
Another quasi gay movie is The Color Purple.
If I excluded all quasi gay movies from my list, there's no way I could have ever come up with ten or more choices. I just don't think there are that many truly great gay-themed films out there.
There is a very obvious lesbian scene between Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and Shug (Margaret Avery) towards the end of the movie. The Color Purple was made in 1985, so the exchange between the two ladies is very toned down, but it's there all the same.
A friend of mine, when first seeing the film, didn't even realize that the two women entered into a physical relationship at this moment. He thought they had just become really close friends. I understand in the original novel, the lesbian relationship is plain to see.

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« Reply #35 on: October 01, 2007, 05:10:05 pm »
If I excluded all quasi gay movies from my list, there's no way I could have ever come up with ten or more choices. I just don't think there are that many truly great gay-themed films out there.


I totally agree with you Scott. Hopefully Brokeback Mountain has now opened a new door and we will see more gay friendly films.  :)

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« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2007, 05:12:26 pm »
Many movies already mentioned here are fantastic, but I want to plug a bit of different genre film called "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".  Val Kilmer as a hard-boiled gay LA detective is "pluperfectly" awesome, and Robert Downey Jr as the story's narrator is wonderfully incoherent!  The story?  I'm not sure I've even figured that out, but I liked the way one cliche after another of "Hollywood noir" gets set up and then thwarted.

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« Reply #37 on: October 01, 2007, 05:15:08 pm »
I am semi stunned (unless I missed them) that no one mentioned"

Angels in America (devastating)

The Laramie Project (incredible)

The Children's Hour (a classic, and very good)

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« Reply #39 on: October 01, 2007, 06:02:41 pm »
Another quasi gay movie is The Color Purple. There is a very obvious lesbian scene between Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and Shug (Margaret Avery) towards the end of the movie. The Color Purple was made in 1985, so the exchange between the two ladies is very toned down, but it's there all the same.  :D

A friend of mine, when first seeing the film, didn't even realize that the two women entered into a physical relationship at this moment. He thought they had just become really close friends. I understand in the original novel, the lesbian relationship is plain to see.

This is a little OT, but I saw the Broadway show The Color Purple, and the lesbian relationship was very clear.  A little too clear, it seems, for some folks who literally walked out.

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« Reply #40 on: October 01, 2007, 08:11:48 pm »
Many movies already mentioned here are fantastic, but I want to plug a bit of different genre film called "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang".  Val Kilmer as a hard-boiled gay LA detective is "pluperfectly" awesome, and Robert Downey Jr as the story's narrator is wonderfully incoherent!  The story?  I'm not sure I've even figured that out, but I liked the way one cliche after another of "Hollywood noir" gets set up and then thwarted.

I'd love to see a sequel...

Thanks for reminding me about this one, Bruce - love Val Kilmer.

The new movie Eastern Promises has a definate gay thread running thru it.  Even though
it is never a consumated connection.  You can see the character Kalil is totally in love with the character played by Viggo Mortenson...

Thanks to you too, Janice - this one is on my must-see list this fall - Viggo is yummy and dude can act!
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« Reply #41 on: October 01, 2007, 08:19:56 pm »
And there was Ang Lee's Wedding Banquet, which was an amazing tale I thought. Along the same line is A Touch of Pink, both of them dealing with cross cultural gay love. I really like the Cary Grant character in TOP.
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« Reply #42 on: October 02, 2007, 03:45:42 am »
I saw Breakfast on Pluto tonight and I found it simply wonderful from beginning to end--charming, emotionally satisfying, delicately nuanced and very powerful. Cillian Murphy  as transsexual Patrick a.k.a. "Kitten"  is impossibly gorgeous and frighteningly innocent inspite of all that life throws him.  This film, much like our beloved Brokeback, drew me in and took me to places I did not expect and might not have reached on my own.
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« Reply #43 on: October 05, 2007, 12:02:47 am »
I don't think anyone has said Love! Valour! Compassion! yet.  I love Terrence McNally.

Cabaret - I remember being about 13 years old, and the Michael York character saying "Screw Maximilian."  And Sally replying, "I do."  And the Michael York character saying, "So do I."  That may have been the first time I ever heard someone talking about gay sex.


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« Reply #44 on: October 05, 2007, 12:48:51 am »
I only know the gay movies I have seen

Brokeback Mountain

But I'm a Cheerleader (funny teen movie)

Boys Dont Cry (very upsetting)

Rocky Horror Picture Show (Finally saw it on video years after it was released in the theaters and I simply LOVED it)

Wild Things (Neve Campbell and Denise Richards are hot)

Cruel Intentions (a very sexy lesbian kiss)

Gia (True story about the first super model)  sad

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« Reply #45 on: October 05, 2007, 11:27:06 am »

Cabaret - I remember being about 13 years old, and the Michael York character saying "Screw Maximilian."  And Sally replying, "I do."  And the Michael York character saying, "So do I."  That may have been the first time I ever heard someone talking about gay sex.


I was in my 20s when I first saw "Cabaret" back in the 70s. And like you, Clarissa, it was one of the first times I ever saw anything gay on the big screen. I love "Cabaret" and will always remember the truly unforgettable scene you mention. Do you remember the other scene where the three of them are drunkenly dancing together, and you first become aware that "something" is going on?

It's firmly etched into my psyche, right up there with the first ever, close-up, man-on-man, mouth-to-mouth kiss I ever saw at the cinema. I speak, of course, of the truly unforgettable kiss between Peter Finch and Murray Head in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" (also from the 70s), which also starred the brilliant Glenda Jackson, who romantically shared Murray Head with Peter Finch in the film.

I herewith formally add "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" to my list ("Cabaret" is already on it)  :D
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« Reply #46 on: October 05, 2007, 01:15:46 pm »
Here's Murray Head:  reportedly, Peter Finch said of the famous kiss that he just closed his eyes and thought of England! 


I wonder if Heath thought of Australia?

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« Reply #47 on: October 05, 2007, 01:16:44 pm »
Here's Murray Head:  reportedly, Peter Finch said of the famous kiss that he just closed his eyes and thought of England! 


I wonder if Heath thought of Australia?
Is that the same guy who sang that song "One Night in Bangkok"?
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« Reply #48 on: October 05, 2007, 01:18:20 pm »
Is that the same guy who sang that song "One Night in Bangkok"?

Yes, about eight or ten years later.

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« Reply #49 on: October 05, 2007, 01:22:52 pm »
Yes, about eight or ten years later.

LOL!
Really, how many Murray Head's could there be?  ::)
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« Reply #50 on: October 05, 2007, 01:23:50 pm »
Here's Murray Head:  reportedly, Peter Finch said of the famous kiss that he just closed his eyes and thought of England! 

I wonder if Heath thought of Australia?
But wasn't Finch himself from Australia?  ???

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« Reply #51 on: October 05, 2007, 01:24:02 pm »

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« Reply #52 on: October 05, 2007, 01:28:16 pm »
I learn from the IMDb that Finch was British born, but grew up in Australia from the age of ten. According to the same source, Finch was not the first choice for the role of the homosexual doctor in Schlesinger's film. He was a last-minute replacement for a man who was dismissed by the director when he balked at a same-sex scene. (Incidentally, John Schlesinger himself was homosexual).

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« Reply #53 on: October 05, 2007, 01:36:33 pm »
LOL!
Really, how many Murray Head's could there be?  ::)
Sometimes I'm on the slow train!  :laugh:

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« Reply #54 on: October 05, 2007, 01:55:34 pm »
I know this is OT, but it's a great blast from the past:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY[/youtube]

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« Reply #55 on: October 05, 2007, 01:58:03 pm »
When I was looking up "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", I read that the first gay male kiss in the movies was in a 1968 film called "The Sergeant" with Rod Steiger.  Has anyone seen this?

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« Reply #56 on: October 05, 2007, 03:08:26 pm »
No, but I think I've seen the clip with the kiss itself. I'm pretty sure they showed it in the film version of The Celluloid Closet, a documentary on the history of Hollywood's representation (such as it was for many decades) of lesbigay people, and which was narrated by Lily Tomlin. The kiss was very aggressive, with strong overtones of self-loathing and contempt for the man being kissed.

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« Reply #57 on: October 05, 2007, 05:57:49 pm »
No, but I think I've seen the clip with the kiss itself. I'm pretty sure they showed it in the film version of The Celluloid Closet, a documentary on the history of Hollywood's representation (such as it was for many decades) of lesbigay people, and which was narrated by Lily Tomlin. The kiss was very aggressive, with strong overtones of self-loathing and contempt for the man being kissed.

I saw "The Sergeant" many years ago and from what I remember, Steiger played an overtly butch, outwardly appearingly heterosexual man's man, with a hidden secret self. The film specifically centres on a crush he has on a handsome young recruit. The climax of the film sees Steiger forcing himself on the young chap. From what I remember, the kiss comes across as part of what appears to be almost a rape sequence, not a loving encounter. This wasn't such an unusual depiction of gays at the time, who were seen as self-loathing perverts, obsessed with sex.

The reason the kiss in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" came across as so staggeringly shocking at the time was because it was presented as part of a normal, loving, sexual union between two men. The scene was brilliantly shot in the garden of the Finch doctor character's sumptuously beautiful London home, with Mozart's opera "Così fan Tutte" playing sublimely in the background (I later purchased the recording!). Murray Head enters nonchalantly and suddenly, as they greet each other, quite unexpectedly, their heads fill the screen in profile, in a huge close up, in a passionate French kiss. I saw it at a packed, suburban cinema in Sydney with my partner, and there was an audible "Gasp!" from the audience - including us!     
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« Reply #58 on: October 05, 2007, 09:03:33 pm »
I know this is OT, but it's a great blast from the past:

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« Reply #59 on: October 05, 2007, 09:29:15 pm »
I got a kick out of that, too.

BTW, Richard, your last post was the 250,000th on the forum!

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« Reply #60 on: October 05, 2007, 09:38:46 pm »
I got a kick out of that, too.

BTW, Richard, your last post was the 250,000th on the forum!
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« Reply #61 on: October 09, 2007, 04:58:58 pm »
I don't think anyone has mentioned Billy Elliott yet but that is one of my favorite movies. Would it be at home here?

Thanks for the mention. I saw part of it on TV but was not able to view all. I need to check it out on DVD. I remember on newstalk radio some movie reviewer (so called) referred to it as "Billy Idiot". But what I saw, I really liked.  :)

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« Reply #62 on: March 07, 2008, 12:34:18 pm »
Just discovered this, wow!

Any other GAY movies? And talks, more we can do on the ones listed... please!

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« Reply #63 on: March 07, 2008, 08:58:26 pm »
Brokeback

maurice

Death in venice ,stunning scenery( and that beautiful young boy) and of course Dirk bogarde.

quentin crisp (with john hurt)

Brideshead (fell in love withAnthony Andrews)

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« Reply #64 on: March 07, 2008, 09:28:34 pm »
Wow optom!

Was C.R.A.Z.Y., mentioned?

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« Reply #65 on: March 07, 2008, 11:36:33 pm »
Wow optom!

Was C.R.A.Z.Y., mentioned?

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« Reply #66 on: March 07, 2008, 11:41:21 pm »
Almost forgot.
The talented Mr.Ripley (JUde law in swimming trunks)
 and the lovely Italian scenery.including Venice again.Was that film not one of the reasons why Matt Damon allegedly turned down BBM as he had already played a gay role?
Anothr country,actually anything with Rupert Everet in just divine!!!

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« Reply #67 on: March 08, 2008, 07:06:19 pm »
Thanks optom!

Yes, I did see Mort à Venise (Death in Venice... I do not know the Italian title)... many, many years ago!
It is like you say!

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« Reply #68 on: March 09, 2008, 03:35:28 am »
"The Naked Civil Servant" (what someone called "Quentin Crisp--John Hurt")
"Angels in America" (the made for TV version) (2003)
"Wings" (1927)--yeah, I know--it isn't. But oh! what a love scene!
"Victim" (1961)--Bogarde
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Parting Glances" (1983)
"Death in venice" (Visconti, 1971) is very beautiful, and I love the Mahler music, and the casting--but I miss Thomas Mann's words. I guess Visconti thought he could do without Aschenbach's thoughts...visual medium, and all that--but some people find it boring because of the lack of action, but what they mean is intrerior monologue. I don't find it boring, but incomplete.
"Gods and Mosters" (1998)
"Mysterious Skin" (2004)


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« Reply #69 on: March 09, 2008, 06:35:59 am »
Wow! So many movies I'd never even heard of until I read this thread!

My own favourites:

Brokeback Mountain (of course!)

My Beautiful Laundrette (first saw that years ago back when I was in college and the student union LGBT society had a film festival - that was the first gay movie I saw)

Notes on a Scandal (very cleverly done)


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How about Orlando? It has Quentin Crisp in it too! He plays Queen Elizabeth!!
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« Reply #71 on: March 09, 2008, 04:00:45 pm »
Duh! *slaps head* How could I forget that one?! I saw that at a film festival in Lancaster with my first girlfriend - must have been back in 1990/91 or thereabouts.


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« Reply #72 on: March 10, 2008, 04:10:12 am »
Quentin Crisp has only a small part in "The Naked Civil Servant"--the movie about his life. John Hurt plays him. (bit confusing to have TWO of them wandering around in the same movie--but it's a great movie).

Crisp has a GREAT line in "The Celluloid Closet" (1995?--"The Wedding Banquet" is the latest film pictured))--a history of the portrayal of gays in motion pictures from 1895-1995. (I'm doing this from memory, and can't get it entiely right):

"When heterosexuals think about homosexuals, they think of what they do to eachother--and they don't like that. It's the old story: 'I'm so glad I don't like green peas, because if I liked them, I would eat them, and I hate them.'"

"The Celluloid Closet" is informative and entertaining, and (ultimately) very expensive! because although the DVD is cheap, it will inspire you to go out and buy a dozen! (available on amazon.com---and don't sue me if you spend over $100 because of it!). Alas, it is also dated.

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #73 on: March 12, 2008, 03:05:12 pm »
"The Naked Civil Servant" (what someone called "Quentin Crisp--John Hurt")
"Angels in America" (the made for TV version) (2003)
"Wings" (1927)--yeah, I know--it isn't. But oh! what a love scene!
"Victim" (1961)--Bogarde
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Parting Glances" (1983)
"Death in venice" (Visconti, 1971) is very beautiful, and I love the Mahler music, and the casting--but I miss Thomas Mann's words. I guess Visconti thought he could do without Aschenbach's thoughts...visual medium, and all that--but some people find it boring because of the lack of action, but what they mean is intrerior monologue. I don't find it boring, but incomplete.
"Gods and Mosters" (1998)
"Mysterious Skin" (2004)


I also like "The Boys in the Band" and...I'm really trying to hate "Cruising," but so far, I haven't thrown it away.

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 I was wracking my brains trying to think of the name of the film about Quentin Crisp.You are right it was the naked civil servant.Thanks for putting me out of my misery !!!!!

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #74 on: March 21, 2008, 12:01:11 pm »
I bought "Maurice" and "Beautiful Thing" and viewed them both this week.  I liked them both a lot.  I thought they were both very well done, and acted.  I LOVE the last scene of Jamie & Ste dancing at the end of Beautiful Thing.  I could watch that scene over and over.  It's so touching and tender.  They seem so content and comfortable dancing and holding each other in the square like that.  The only problem I had with it is that I had a very difficult time understanding what the characters were saying at times, because of their English accents.  Lovely movie though!

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #75 on: March 25, 2008, 08:18:30 pm »
I'm not sure if this one's been mentioned, or if it really classifies as a "gay movie", although there are gay themes in it, is Victor Victoria with Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.

"You want me to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman?"

I think it was probably the first "gay movie" I saw - I was probably in my late teens at the time.

Victoria'is a starving (literally - she's stealing food from a restaurant at the start of the film) soprano trying to find work in Paris in the 1930's, then she meets up with a gay cabaret singer and invents her alter-ego Victor, a female impersonator who turns out to be a huge hit. It's got some serious themes, but it's also really funny, with a Chicago businessman falling for him/her, and his bodyguard coming out too - there's a hilarious scene where he (the body guard ends up hiding outside a hotel room window (it's in the middle of winter and snowing) and his line when he eventually manages to get back inside always has me in stitches.


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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #76 on: March 28, 2008, 08:56:58 am »
I saw a most wonderful movie on Easter Monday. I was having lunch with a friend, who mentioned that he had managed to locate a copy of a film he had originally seen back in the 70s. He said it had never been released on DVD and that after much searching, he had recently bought a VHS copy online. He said it was one of his favourite films. After lunch, we watched the film together and it left such an indelible impression on my psyche that I have now added it to my list of favourite gay movie of all time.

It started out as a song by Bobbie Gentry in the 60s, from which a book was written, and from that came the film. I am acutely aware of spoilers and don't want to give away the story to anyone who doesn't know what it's about. I can't stress enough that it is best to watch this film WITHOUT knowing the ending. Like Brokeback Mountain, much of the impact of this film lies in the revelation contained in the ending. Suffice to say here that it is a classic tale of tragic love.

So, what's the name of this wonderful film, you ask? It's "Ode to Billy Joe" and I'll never forget it. It's right up there now, with my favourite gay movies of all time. Don't miss it!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc[/youtube]

And no, the lyrics of the song do not give away what REALLY happens at the end of the movie!
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #77 on: March 30, 2008, 02:30:39 am »
I saw Ode to Billy Joe when I was probably 11 or 12.  It took me seeing it as an adult to go, "Oooohh, I get it now!"  :laugh:

My list of movies and BBM is a given.

Victor/Victoria
Torch Song Trilogy
Another Country
Lost and Delirious
Gia
Boys Don't Cry
Cabaret
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #78 on: March 30, 2008, 08:48:29 am »
I really haven't seen that many gay movies. But, from what i have seen i have come to like a few. Here's there order.

Brokeback Mountain - Well, this is a bit of a duh! LOL, But it's my favorite.....

The Mudge Boy - I just seen this. If profoundly moved me. This film that has been dubbed as a disgusting, impassive, glorification of rape. There is a rape seen and it could be up to speculation to what you interest as. I found it really sad that the pent of sexual desire came to what it did. Even if you find this scene disturbing. It can not be discredited about the realism of the characters portrayed. Bruelty, honest and heartbreaking. Really good film.....

Philadelphia - I was a child when i saw this. And it scared the shit out of me. maybe for the wrong reasons. But never the less. Great Movie.....

Notes On A Scandal - Surprised by the performances and the fact i enjoyed it. Though i find it shows more about a mental disorder than gay themes. Lol.....
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #79 on: March 30, 2008, 01:53:43 pm »
i really like FAR FROM HEAVEN
not sure if it's been mentioned, but takes place in the 50's.  woman finds her husband kissing another man, and her 'perfect suburban life' is turned upside down.  very good movie.

i also liked NOTES ON A SCANDAL
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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #80 on: March 30, 2008, 05:23:07 pm »
-PHILADELPHIA

That's one that I've still never seen. I remember it was first released just after I left college. My sister was going to take me to see it (she could drive at that time but it was before I got my licence) but she decided it would be too sad for me (I had clinical depression at the time) so wouldn't take me. I never did get round to seeing it. Really must do one of these days.


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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #81 on: March 31, 2008, 01:16:40 am »
I forgot all about Philadelphia. Great movie.

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Re: My favorite gay movies
« Reply #82 on: June 17, 2009, 10:42:42 am »
I would say Big Eden is a MUST SEE for story, scenery and music :D
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I just started watching this last night!!

In honor of Pride Month, I'm going to catch up on some of the movies on this list that I have missed over the years. Your suggestions are welcome!!
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