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30 Best LGBT Films of All Time — An alternative to the BFI list
Note on August 2, 2017: I just rewatched Mike Nichols' 6-hour AIDS-era accounting of the spirit of American democracy. (How else should I describe it?) In light of it, and in its afterglow which I'm going to live with for several days, I imagine, there is no film on...
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The 30 Best [Euro-Gringo, Establishment-Cinephile] LGBT Films of All Time?
It's more than a little weird to me that although over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers voted on the 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time, there's not a surprise on it. I appreciate the inclusion of Portrait of Jason and Genet's Un chant d'amour — the latter still...
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77 Significant Gay Movies Since 2000
Note: In making this list of gay movies, I considered what was important to me, rather than what was important to the culture at large, not least because there are inevitably estadounidense biases, and often European ones as well, built-in to lists like these. As a...
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film note: Una noche
The handsome look of this film shot widescreen in Cuba on 35mm made it easy to feel immersed in this tale of love, attachment, and youthful aspirations. The attractiveness and natural acting of the three amateur leads doesn’t hurt. But the plot is stretched too thin, and melodrama and fatalism eventually upend the film’s energy and the empathy generated by the characters and their desires.
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film review: La Noche
I had some trouble the first time getting through Edgardo Castor’s gay art movie from Argentina, but now after having watched it three times, and crucial scenes more than that, I’m convinced that it’s closer to a masterpiece.
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film note: Wrath of Vajra
The Wrath of Vajra Directed by Wing-Cheong Law 111 min, China | Hong Kong | Japan | Taiwan, 2014 If I were to rate this film solely on its homoerotic power, I'd give it 5 stars. I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to say this movie was made as an ode to male...
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film review: Interior. Leather Bar.
It’s a testament to the intelligence and seriousness of co-directors James Franco and Travis Matthews that I don’t know where to begin talking about this galvanizing and quite radical hour-long gay-sex-explicit experimental film.
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Film note: It’s All So Quiet
Boven is het stil (It's All So Quiet) Directed by Nanouk Leopold 1h 33 mins, The Netherlands, 2013 I've watched a handful of movies lately that focus on the loneliness of their gay male characters — Harvest, Yossi, A Single Man, La leon and now this one, Boven is het...
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film note: My Last Round
My Last Round Directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada 110 min, Chile, 2012 Despite the gloomy milieu, there's a lot to like about this same-sex relationship study from Chile. Unlike the gay characters in most American films, even in indies and from the underground, these...
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