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Shame on all of you for failing to mention Torch Song Trilogy and Angels in America, both of which should be at the top of any list of gay films right next to Brokeback.

Also, Edge of Seventeen is far from generic! That movie is just about the most perfect depiction of being a gay teen before the internet, myspace, facebook, and gay.com made it easy. It's like my life on a VHS tape. :(
 
HiroProtagonist said:
Shit:
Butch Camp
Another gay movie
Eating out
Forgiving the Franklins
Latter Days

Good:
We were one man
Shock to the system & Third Man Out (cheesy, lifetime-esque, but they were alright)
Head On
I Think I Do
Eating Out 2
Urbania
24th day
Come Undone

Great:
The Witnesses
Shelter
Bad Education
Nine Dead Gay Guys
Doing Time On Maple Drive
Before Night Falls
My Own Private Idaho
Gods and Monsters
And the Band Played On
Philadelphia
Wonder Boys
Mysterious Skin
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It may deal with a gay issue, but it is certainly made to please straight guys. :D

edit: wait, i was mistaken, I meant the similarly titled When Night is Falling.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114916/
 
Added two to my 'excellent' list - Paris Is Burning (which several people have discussed in here already - thanks for the reminder I needed to see it; I loved it!) and Wild Reeds (check this one out, really great youth drama).
 
Great thread, I've seen quite a few of these... Recently saw this:

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Amazing. It moved me to tears a few times. I'd definitely recommend it.
 
Also - one film I've seen since August that I thought was great is Derek Jarman's Sebastiane.

Not for all tastes, but I really found it to be fantastic.

Edit: Also, I thought The Edge of Heaven was very good, Close to Leo was OK and The River was pretty good (not for all tastes, though!).
 
Also:

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Fox and His Friends - great film by the same director as Querelle... I much prefered this to Querelle which I wasn't a fan of. I read the book before I saw the movie and the movie didn't do it justice at all! So campy!

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Looking For Langston - really good film about black gay men during the harlem renaissance

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Brother to Brother

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Boys in the Band - adaptation of the classic/groundbreaking play... really funny (and sad...)
 
Question: What's the name of that movie about a British kid who is a dancer, and who's best friend ends up being gay?
 
I just got Brokeback Mountain on HD-DVD.

Here are a few more:
In & Out - Silly Kevin Kline comedy that is enjoyable.
Times of Harvey Milk - Documentary about Harvey Milk I've mentioned in other threads.
America Beauty - A few interesting gay side characters
 
Love To Love You Baby said:
I haven't seen it, but I believe it's Billy Elliot.
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Right, if you haven't seen it I'd definitely recommend it (even though I just mildly spoiled part of the ending...lol).
 
Second Midnight Cowboy.

Better than Chocolate is alright, just a prettty light story, but some funny moments and a good spread of characters.

There's also a documentary about Dog Day Afternoon that tracks down the people involved in the actual event. Pretty sad stuff, but worth a watch. I just can't remember the damn name!
 
A few additions:

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Making Love - I saw this on LOGO a few weeks back, apparently it was really groundbreaking at the time of it's release in 1980. It's about this Doctor who cheats on his wife with a novelist, it's pretty good for what it is. I did find it to be really inoffensive and innocuous, but that was kind of to be expected.


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The Ski Trip - Cute movie about a group of friends who decided to go on a trip to a ski resort... drama ensues, as is to be expected.It's really low budget and cliche but I enjoyed it for what it was.

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Dirty Laundry - Nice film by the same director as The Ski Trip (Maurice Jamal). It's about a New York City writer who goes back to his family in the south upon finding out that he has a kid. It's funny, I'd recommend it.
 
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The most fascinating thing about them is that they, with the help of their super intelligence, and their highly developed telepathic system, Braintapping, will be able to create a world, a society, a perfect world to live in without the presence of women. A MALE ONLY WORLD.
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I saw "Were the World Mine" in NYC (very limited run - think it's been playing at film festivals for a while, and is opening in a few cities for the next month or so). Very cute film, and I really liked the music and singing - ended up buying some songs from the soundtrack. This and "Les Chansons d'Amour" are probably my favorite LGBT-themed films from this year (guess I really like the musicals).

Trailer at link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sH-ro9JkG8

And a very positive review from the New York Times, which is what led me to see it in the first place:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/movies/21were.html
 
It's not exactly the greatest movie in the world or anything, but I'm surprised no one's mentioned The Birdcage by now.

As for Angels in America, having just seen it, I'd say that while it's good and has its moments, on the whole, it's far too long and just not that interesting as an entire body of work. I inherently enjoyed some of the more political references and allusions, but not so much of the religious material which just seemed rather bland and uninteresting compared to the rest of the material. Jeffrey Wright was by far the saving grace of the series.
 
Sick and snowed in this weekend, so I watch two movies - Taboo and Love and Death on Long Island.

For Taboo, I'll quote Jonathan Rosenbaum, whose short review does a pretty damn good job of covering how I feel about it:

Poetry and style aren't qualities one ordinarily associates with writer-director Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses), but this haunting, dreamlike tale of a beautiful and narcissistic military recruit (Ryuhei Matsuda) in 1865 training to become a samurai warrior, who bewitches and obsesses the men around him, is a triple-distilled example of poetic style, action and violence included. Because the central character is something of an angel of death, the film isn't exactly politically correct in its treatment of homosexuality, but it's debatable whether it can be called homophobic either, at least in any ordinary sense. Though it's based on two novellas from Ryotaro Shiba's Shinsengumi Keppuroku, it suggests a tribute to the great Kenji Mizoguchi, a Japanese master Oshima hasn't shown much reverence for in the past. Its long takes, its lyrical and nearly constant camera movements, and its ghostly and atmospheric studio sets all suggest Mizoguchi, and the dialogue makes reference to Tales of Moonlight and Rain, the literary source of Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari. Originally titled Gohatto, this 1999 feature was Oshima's first in 13 years, directed mainly from a wheelchair due to his 1996 stroke, and it includes some of the biggest stars in contemporary Japanese cinema, including Takeshi Kitano (impressive in a noncomic role), Tadanobu Asano, and Shinji Takeda, as well as a score by Ryuichi Sakamoto. At first glance the film seems to lack the political provocation of much of Oshima's best work, but it can be read in part as a critique of Japanese machismo as well as a meditation on eros that in some respects recalls In the Realm of the Senses. Probably not for everyone, but almost certainly a masterpiece.
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Love and Death on Long Island probably wouldn't be considered politically correct in the strictest sense either, because as a portrait of homosexuality it isn't exactly flattering - but it extends its empathy to all characters involved, and really isn't meant to be about homosexual attraction so much as it is about the power of popular culture. I thought it was good, but not overwhelmingly so.
 
mac said:
I guess that's good even though transgender has nothing to do with gay. Hedwig and the Palahanuik book Invisible Monsters do a disservice to the understanding of transgendered people by portraying them as messed up people who get operations out of a desire for attention or confusion.

Transamerica with Felicity Huffman is a great film and handles the topic splendidly.
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Wow, really late replying to this---

I don't really think of Hedwig as transgendered in the traditional sense, but rather as a gay man trying to find an identity when completely cut off (sexually, geographically, politically) from what he knew growing up. And in the end, He's a He again having figured it out.

So, transgender only as metaphor, not what he's really about.
 
  • 300
  • X-Men
  • Top Gun
  • Batman and Robin
  • Lord of the Rings

:D


teiresias said:
I noticed you tended away from any full-on gay comedies (which is honestly, usually a good thing) and quite a a few of the lower budget, better known gay flicks, which tend to me more overtly gay-themed than alot of what you've listed. The mentioned "Another Gay Movie" is pretty damn hilarious - though probably a bit too extreme for our straight brethren to take (particularly the overly compensatory ones here at GAF).

I also liked "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green." It's not art by any means, but it's pretty funny and cute - and David Monahan is such a hottie!! :D

"Trick" is another rather inconsequential, though not horrible gay flick that I like. You get to see Tori Spelling take another turn at acting horribly.

For a cool foreign gay movie, try "The Man I Love." It's a French film that I really like. The cover of the US DVD is absolutely stupid looking though, so don't let it turn you off from it.
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I just watched this on YouTube the other day. Pretty funny (ok, mostly I just have an infatuation with Daniel Letterle). But it's worth checking out.
 
Count Dookkake said:
The response of the deranged has no bearing on the intent or quality of a work of art.

Celluloid Closet is a good movie and I feel stupid for not bringing it up in my first post, but I don't agree with its take on Cruising.

To each his own.
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Whether or not Cruising is a piece of shit is of course a matter of opinion (ProTip: It is), but I really don't see how you can claim there isn't a homophobic undercurrent to the film, especially considering what Friedkin had to be told to cut out of it by the gay writer he asked to screen it before release:

At Rechy's suggestion, Friedkin deleted a scene showing the Gay Liberation slogan "We Are Everywhere" as graffiti on a wall just before the first body part is pulled from the river
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If not outright homophobia on the part of the filmmakers, it's at least counting on the mainstream audience's disgust and fear of homosexuals to make that scene put the viewer on edge.
 
Not 100% that it counts but I really enjoyed I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry. 2 straight fireman pretend there gay to claim for a pension. It was good fun to watch + it got a cross the point that being gay isn't always a barrel of laughs.
 
No Breakfast on Pluto?

Come on, don't let the straight guy one up you fellas! :p

Seriously, Breakfast on Pluto is great!
 
Finally got around to seeing The Times of Harvey Milk - really loved it. Milk and it both generally focus on different aspects of his life (and people around him), so they make great companion pieces to see a more full picture of the man and the era.

Also randomly watched Grande Ecole on Netflix Watch Instantly - whatever.
 
A couple of films that probably fall in the Good-Great range:

The Deep End -- It's not the central theme, but it's critical to the plot
Sexual Dependency (Dependencia Sexual) -- sexuality, masculinity, and identity
 
Well, sorry for the necro-bump; but i couldn't find a more recent thread. :p

I've recently watched a few movies, and surprised me that were quite nice to watch, with nice plots and well acted. So I'll list the main ones I liked:

Strapped
Really nice one. Is about a hustler, during one of the usual one-nigh tstands; he's wit ha guy, do their thing, he gets the money and leaves. But after he leaves, he just can't find teh exit of the apartment. Lots of walls, doors, non-working exists, get him into meeting other characters; some are nice, some not so much. It was cool how he basically changed his name and way of acting depending on the guy he was with. A little bit feminine with the group of "old gays", straight-macho with the married guy that "was straight..but likes men" (really creepy scene at one point too) and so on; but as a hustler he gets to have "fun" and get paid; while looking for the exit.

If he changes his ways and if he manages to find the exit, I won't say. :p​


Long Term Relationship
Another nice one. About a guy that's doesn't have actual relationships, just fuck buddies and regular buddies; but seems just tired of just the usual things. One day, while eating out with his friends, one of them starts reading the classifieds section looking for a quick hook up, while reading they find this guy that is looking for an "LTR". They read more of his description, decides to call him and then meet in person. Sparks fly, they have lots in common, friends are jealous about the time they spend together...BUT..there's a problem; sex sucks! There's also a bigger problem!...guy's a republican.

So they have a lot of funny situations while dealing with that and balancing family, friends and temptation.​

Is it just me?
This one was better than I expected. even thogh the plot and soem of the characters are the usual "cliche" like good looking, but less confident guy, good looking gym body that strips in a bar and has sex, no friends.

The story is basically about a guy that doens't like hookups but actual dates and relationship and he's disappointed he just can't find them. So he ends doing the whole online dating. On a site, he meets a really nice guy, which have a lot in common, talk over the phone for hours, everything's perfect....till they decide to meet each other. After they agreed to and the other guy sends hi ma picture; he realizes, he was talking using his roomate's (gym guy) account. Afraid that the other guy was talking to him, based on the pictures of his roomate, he agrees with the roomate so he pretends to be him. Of course, things are going to get complicated. :p

One problem with the movie, is that the other online guy is barely described. We know he's from Texas and that he recently moved there and that's it. We know the main character is in love with him and the conversations they have, but he's literally non existent even when he's on scenes. Also, things get solved really fast in the end. But I still enjoyed it, because the main character reminded of me so much, specially during an early scene when he's at a coffee shop and the employee threats him like shit; just to go and be all lovely towards the next, better looking guy and even offer him the coffee for free. (Yeah, I've been there :() :p​

Dog Tags
Two stories/characters that cross paths. One's a straight guy, that never knew his family and was raised to basically grow up and be a (providing) father. He decides to join the NAVY, with the idea that if he decides to meet his real father, he can go all dressed in uniform so he can see what he became. The other one, is a gay guy after the first time he goes out to meet people after his relationship ended; just to realize that he's just not ready and doesn't want quick hookups.

They both meet under some...kinda funny circumstances which I won't say. :p
They start traveling together to go to their respective families and continue with their lives but a few situation and last moment revelations change all their plans.

Movie's good, except for one thing. The gay guy, is the father of a baby. That's no problem per se, but seems it was a problem for the writer, when not only the characters forget about the baby; but the script sometimes even forgets the baby is supposed to be there.​

Also 'Rock Haven', but that one just sucked. basically cliche christian kid, cliche gay character, they both fall in love, but God this, Bible that, Mom's a fan of Jesus, gay = disease and can be cured, director/writer having a cameo as the Father from church/spiritual guide of sorts, with some horrible wooden acting that looked as if he was just waiting to rape the kid. All that coupled with bad editing (tons of beach scenes for no reason), music that sounds as if was taken from a NES game, and laughable scenes; like a few scenes with both characters just eating junk food, or a scene were Christian guy masturbates in the shower using the mental image of cliche gay guy (whom he saw for teh first time from afar, removing his shirt only; yet he imagined him up-close and saw his face and entire body in detail). Really horrible movie.

I also watched 'Raging Sun, Raging Sky' and its prequel of sorts; 'Broken Sky', because of the amount of praise around both.
Basically both are 2-3 hours long "artsy films" with a bunch of extended scenes, characters looking at each other, barely to no dialogs, and in the case of Ragin Sun; which lasts over 3 hours, around 2 hours of it are in black and white. The supposed plot in both is about "souls" looking to be together and a third soul kinda jealous of the 2 that belong together.

But since there are so few dialogs, characters don't talk, there are a bunch of sexual scenes in a movie theater; that you have to assume is some kind of purgatory; like the rest of the movie you're left to assume things and you end with more questions than answers. Both were big disappointments and sorry to the director/writer; but after watching the movies and even reading a blog about Raging Sky and how he likes young actors and consider anyone over 25 as "old", I get the impression that he makes this movies as an excuse to have young, new actors naked and doing sexual things for the camera. Aside how the blog talks about the director being basically a bitch and getting a few of the characters to cry, after demanding and insulting them in front of everyone; but since he was the director...the one with the vision, i twas fine since he was just expecting more from them.

During the upcoming days, will watch Socket, Gone but not forgotten and Back Soon.
 
Not even gay, but Bruce laBruce films are entertaining. Otto was the last one I saw since it was up on netflix.
 
Mysterious Skin is an amazing film. But I don't think it's fair to label it a "gay film." Its characters are gay but it deals more with the characters as victims of pedophelia than the characters as homosexuals.
 
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