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Jeffrey (Steven Weber is whiny and annoying as the lead, but the rest of the all-star cast is great!)

In & Out (speaking of all-star casts! This is such a fun movie. Joan Cusack is hilarious, as always)

 

LOVE LOVE LOVE "Jeffrey," especially Patrick Stewart—who is hilarious. I may watch that right now.

I didn't like "In & Out," which had a real ersatz feeling to it.

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The one's that I watched over and over again are:

 

Latter Days

Broken Hearts Club

Big Eden

All Over the Guy

Friends and Family (a comedy in which a gay couple are the enforcers for a Mafia don)

Broadway Damage

Mambo Italiano

The Trip

 

In Mambo Italiano, Paul Sorvino's character (Gino Barberini) explaining how they arrived in Montreal: "Nobody told us there was two America: the real one, United State, and the fake one, Canada. Then, to make matter even worse, there's two Canada: the real one, Ontario, and the fake one, Quebec."

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This thread is reminding me of so many good movies. I'll probably be re-watching these in the near future:

Trick

Boy Culture

 

And I'm watching "A Home At the End Of The World" as we speak. It's new to me and so far I like it. Hard to not love Colin Farrell.

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Fun Thread. Sorry my movies are falling flat. Very very sorry you didn't like Keep The Lights On. I thought it was one of the most honest portrayals of a relationship I've ever seen.

 

Latter Days is a happy movie and a very good movie. Big Eden is about 15 minutes too long and beautifully shot. Really liked Boy Culture in part because it's one of the very few films to show gay prostitution in a positive light. Hedwig is genius.

 

I Don't Kiss is another gay movie I love. It's definitely not a happy movie, but it's a good gay prostitute movie:

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Hotel-America-I-Dont-Kiss/70100525?strkid=1145856301_0_0&strackid=5cbeef09c12d7735_0_srl&trkid=222336

 

And by the same director is the much loved iconic Wild Reeds. What a great movie. Five Stars.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Wild-Reeds/7774485

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeR-CnXZ3Mk

 

And how awesome is Borstal Boy? I ran into the actor Shawn Hatosy at a local restaurant a few years ago and paid him HIGH compliment. He seemed proud of it and said it was a fantastic experience.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Borstal-Boy/60024201#movieDetails

 

Eastern Boys flew in and out of theaters a few weeks ago. I missed it. I heard good things. Looking forward to seeing it.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Eastern-Boys/70293825

It's free online, IF you understand French:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVz3oCCdsQg

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and also:

 

AKA

L.I.E.

Together Alone

 

I'd forgotten about AKA, thank you Kevin. Good movie. Free online:

 

L.I.E. Wow! Quite a movie. I felt a bit perverted, like watching my nephews fuck. But it is a damn good film.

It's free, in parts, online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMwPLfETibw

 

Together Alone. I loved it when I saw it in college, but I have a feeling that going back to it would be like going back to My Dinner With Andre. Interesting talking points, but mot much of a film.

 

Here's a good gay one, Eyes Wide Open is kind of the BrokeBack of Gay Orthodox Jews. Really!

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Worst of all time,Lola And Billy The Kid, Turkish transvestites in Germany.

A very close second, the recent Saint Laurent bio-pic....bad acting, poor production, in French with what might have been English subtitles.

Wow, I completely forgot about "Lola and Billy The Kid" until you just mentioned it. Definitely not an uplifting film. I recall my friend and I turning to one another after the film and saying "what the f--- was that?" Can you imagine a "Lola and Billy The Kid" and "Adam and Steve" double feature?

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A few others to add to my list:

 

Were The World Mine

is it just me?

The Men Next Door (Comedy in which a man discovers he is dating a father and son)

Private Romeo

In The Flesh (crap-tastic -- Set in Atlanta, a relationship develops between an undercover cop and a male escort, who is a witness to a crime and then a suspect in a murder)

 

No one has mentioned Urbania. I think this would be on my least favorite list. It's disturbing; and I only re-watch it to see Dan Futterman and Matt Keeslar.

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A documentary I really love (and wanted my relatives to see) was "Word is out ... the stories of [some of] our lives".

 

It featured some people involved in forging the emergence of the gay community and some other

just plain [gay] folks. I wound up wanting to be friends with everybody I saw on screen.

 

I think it still has value giving a real flavor of the time it was made and still would be totally

engaging.

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Also Cabaret has one of the bext dialogue exchanges:

 

Brian (Michael York): Fuck the Baron!

Sally (Liza Minelli): I do!

Brian: So do I!

 

Agreed...except Brian's line is "Screw Maximilian!" not "Fuck the Baron!" lol.

 

(And what really makes that moment so much fun is the pauses between the lines - Brian's laugh before his (wonderfully understated) comeback, and Sally's long reaction before her next line, "You two bastards!!")

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(And what really makes that moment so much fun is the pauses between the lines - Brian's laugh before his (wonderfully understated) comeback, and Sally's long reaction before her next line, "You two bastards!!")

 

Brian: "Two? Two? Shouldn't that be three?"

 

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Brian: "Two? Two? Shouldn't that be three?"

 

 

 

I know this is about gay themed movies, but this was my coming out film, sorta, and it always makes me wonder if there is an embedded gay culture gene. Along with Chicago, it's one of my favorite films ever.

 

It came out in 1972, when I was 12. My best friend at the time (who also turned out to be gay) and I saw it probably about 15 times while it was in the theater. It was the first time I saw a reference to a gay man in a movie, and I honestly didn't get it - consciously. We bought the soundtrack and performed "Money" in the basement. (Think Kurt Hummel doing "Single Ladies" in Glee, only younger). The first concert I ever went to was Liza Minnelli. And to top it off, I loved Abba music.

 

I had no gay uncle or gay cultural reference points at that point in my life. So I've always wondered whether there really is a gay gene, that without being told drew me to those special parts of mainstream culture only a true queer can appreciate.

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Agreed...except Brian's line is "Screw Maximilian!" not "Fuck the Baron!" lol.

 

(And what really makes that moment so much fun is the pauses between the lines - Brian's laugh before his (wonderfully understated) comeback, and Sally's long reaction before her next line, "You two bastards!!")

Thanks for the correction! Haven't watched it in years and didn't google the quotation first. :)

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So I've always wondered whether there really is a gay gene, that without being told drew me to those special parts of mainstream culture only a true queer can appreciate.

 

...The author of internationally acclaimed novels including The Master – one of three of his books to have been shortlisted for the Booker prize – and Brooklyn, Tóibín said he had occupied an “odd position” in Ireland, where he has represented the country as an artist, but has been unable to do “this thing other people in Ireland can do, I can’t get married in the normal way, and have those rights under the constitution”.

 

“It would be lovely to be not in that position, it would be lovely to have clarity on this,” said the novelist, who admitted his own experience of growing up gay in Ireland had “almost been useful” to him, as a novelist.

 

“I wouldn’t wish it on anybody on a personal level but on an artistic level it means you’re working in a funny space where silence reigns, where someone’s thinking one thing and saying another, and that’s quite dramatic if you’re writing a novel, it’s a good way to proceed. And it may be one of the reasons where there are quite a number of gay artists because you do develop a sort of introspection very early in your life, you look inwards, you notice things, you take nothing for granted, you watch things, and that may be a very good training,” he said. “What WH Auden said was as much neurosis as a child can take. But I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/21/colm-toibin-gay-marriage-referendum-vote

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...The author of internationally acclaimed novels including The Master – one of three of his books to have been shortlisted for the Booker prize – and Brooklyn, Tóibín said he had occupied an “odd position” in Ireland, where he has represented the country as an artist, but has been unable to do “this thing other people in Ireland can do, I can’t get married in the normal way, and have those rights under the constitution”.

 

“It would be lovely to be not in that position, it would be lovely to have clarity on this,” said the novelist, who admitted his own experience of growing up gay in Ireland had “almost been useful” to him, as a novelist.

 

“I wouldn’t wish it on anybody on a personal level but on an artistic level it means you’re working in a funny space where silence reigns, where someone’s thinking one thing and saying another, and that’s quite dramatic if you’re writing a novel, it’s a good way to proceed. And it may be one of the reasons where there are quite a number of gay artists because you do develop a sort of introspection very early in your life, you look inwards, you notice things, you take nothing for granted, you watch things, and that may be a very good training,” he said. “What WH Auden said was as much neurosis as a child can take. But I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/21/colm-toibin-gay-marriage-referendum-vote

 

Even after a hundred years people still read Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Like Henry James, Mann was in the closet. Mann was a public figure for decades as one of the best known anti-Nazi German. He was wealthy and helped many other expat in U.S. in the 1940s. I believe Mann would have proud and out if he was born in the 20th century. Several of his children were queer.

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For me it was Brokeback Mountain. Interesting analysis by quoththeraven. I didn't see the movie the same way. I thought the sexual tension was one of the more powerful elements of the movie. Timid, perhaps a bit, but I thought that the movie stayed true to itself from beginning to the end....and the end, it was just brilliantly done.

BM turned out to be game changer in many lives. That alone is significant. I found sexual tension, romance, and truth. On my scale, I give it an 8.5. Hard to compare the movie with my perfect 10="Sound of Music!" WG2

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BM turned out to be game changer in many lives. That alone is significant. I found sexual tension, romance, and truth. On my scale, I give it an 8.5. Hard to compare the movie with my perfect 10="Sound of Music!" WG2

There is an opera version of Brokeback Mountain. I saw it available in DVD in a Philadelphia store.

 

On The Sound of Music, people forget there was a hugely succesful Broadway version which opened in 1959 with Mary Martin. I saw it in 1960 with my parents -- very hard to get tickets. The live TV version was based more on Martin' version than Andrews. I like the film as well!

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There is an opera version of Brokeback Mountain. I saw it available in DVD in a Philadelphia store.

 

On The Sound of Music, people forget there was a hugely succesful Broadway version which opened in 1959 with Mary Martin. I saw it in 1960 with my parents -- very hard to get tickets. The live TV version was based more on Martin' version than Andrews. I like the film as well!

Sounds like a very warm memory!
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I do love this movie. "Go" also has a really funny gay subplot and also stars Timothy Olyphant.

 

Has anyone mentiond "Love! Valor! Compassion!"?

 

I like "Go" very much as well. Spoiler alert, the gay subplot is very good and has some nice twists. The gay couple played

by Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf ("Part of Five") underplay, which is right for the movie. There was a stage version of "Love! Valor Compassion!' first with Nathan Lane and the cast of the film. Still I am surprised the film was not more popular, especially with Justin Kirk and Randy Becker and their naked prime. Thanks for mentioning the two film.

 

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I love "Go" as well. My favorite line is when Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr (talk about in his prime) are panicked and trying to get away from the party in Scott's miata.... and they keep going round and round and finally, Jay says, "Where did you learn to drive? Circleville?"

 

And of course the bedroom scene with William Fichtner, buck ass naked (and what a great ass) bouncing on the bed and asking Jay to "give it a try"....

 

Other faves that I watch over and over are independents like Burnt Money, Open Cam, Bulgarian Lovers, Hard, Come Undone and the more mainstream ones like Jeffrey and Longtime Companion ("Oh... it needs a hat! A big Bea Lille thing...") to the more obscure low budget ones like "And there you are" and "R U Invited?"....

 

And of course, the original "Queer as Folk" and currently, I really like "Cucumber".

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