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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2009, 01:31:37 pm »
that Dali mustache on Pattison looks terrible.

Well, FWIW I think the moustache looked terrible on Dali himself (and in some respects I think Dali intended it to look ridiculous).

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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2009, 08:45:54 pm »

"I look terrible you say?!  Am I not still dreeeeamy?!"

I found a review of the film and it's a good & informative read.  And it seems I may have been right about the title Little Ashes, being taken from something Lorca wrote:

http://www.gayblade.com/news0309_ashes.shtml

Excerpt from: Love & Art Rise From Little Ashes  by Chris Carpenter

While Dali and Bunuel gained immediate, worldwide attention for their works — thanks to the controversial 1928 film on which they collaborated, Un Chien Andalou — any mention or promotion of Garcia Lorca’s work was prohibited until 1953 by the Spanish government. Since then, however,Garcia Lorca has become regarded as one of Spain’s most beloved poets.

The love affair between Garcia Lorca and Dali was apparently ignited during a holiday they spent together in Dali’s hometown of Cadaques, Spain. While it is depicted in Little Ashes (the film’s title is taken from a poem Garcia Lorca wrote for Dali) as a chaste romance due to Garcia Lorca’s Catholic guilt and Dali’s sexually troubled past,* theirs was clearly a union of mind and heart.

Little Ashes is educational and sensual. Impressively directed by Paul Morrison (Solomon & Gaenor), it evokes the upper-class and sexually repressive atmosphere of E. M. Forster’s novel Maurice, as well as the poetry and passion of the film Like Water for Chocolate. The film’s intelligent, well-researched script is by first-time screenwriter Philippa Goslett.


* >:(  Doesn't look promising for man-on-man action, does it.  Repressed emotions can be pretty hot too, I suppose......again.

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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2009, 10:50:48 pm »

* Doesn't look promising for man-on-man action, does it.  Repressed emotions can be pretty hot too, I suppose......again.

Thanks for posting that review Bud! It was interesting to read.

LOL, about steaminess... I recommend doing some Google image searches until you find the pics of the naked, underwater scene.  They actually showed a very brief clip of that on the E!News segment that I saw.  And, based on Javier Beltran's comment from the Out interview that (“We didn’t have any problems with the sexuality. On the set it was less important than the emotions. The sex scenes are beautiful—tragic and painful.”) there must be something. 

But, yes, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.  It could end up be terrible, but the whole subject of the film has at least caused me to become intrigued.  And, whether or not it's terrible, I still give Pattison props from doing something like this on the heels of the fluffier teen movies.




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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2009, 11:28:09 pm »



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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2009, 03:54:28 am »
They can smite me any day. :)


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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #25 on: April 15, 2009, 08:37:52 am »
S'wonderful, s'marvelous, s'might be paradise.

S'might be paradise to smite me with a smattering of smut.

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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2009, 01:44:52 pm »
S'might be paradise to smite me with a smattering of smut.


Bravo!


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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #27 on: April 15, 2009, 02:31:51 pm »

Bravo!


Above is a fun pair of dice that are shaped like spheres, but work like ordinary cubical dice.  Each of the six "faces" lands up with equal probability, and they never come to rest halfway between two numbers.  The trick is that they are hollow, with an octahedron-shaped cavity that contains a ball bearing.  This weight lands in one of the six corners of the cavity, each of which lies under one of the six "faces".


Hm, I'm not sure how this relates to Paul's comments, let alone to Dali/Little Ashes, but I have a pair of those dices! ;D

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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #28 on: April 15, 2009, 03:38:11 pm »





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Re: Little Ashes: new film about early, gay love affairs of Salvador Dali
« Reply #29 on: April 16, 2009, 01:58:18 am »

Hm, I'm not sure how this relates to Paul's comments, let alone to Dali/Little Ashes, but I have a pair of those dices! ;D


S'pair a dice!

That's cool you have a pair.  I've never seen them before, just found them googling "pair of dice."  Do they work?