S/D: Gay movies of arty qualities

search..uh.. Midnight Cowboy? The Conformist? Dog Day Afternoon? I guess those are just movies with gay people in them, though haha

I watched most of Latter Days with my last roommate. He didn't seem to find it all to, er, edifying, so.. destroy.

this site is funny:

http://campblood.org/

http://www.tlavideo.com/templates/results_list.cfm?v=0&sn=1&pid=8358

"It all starts when the lead singer of a boy band just doesn't fit into the team anymore. So they do what all good boy bands do, the underwear-clad studs gather round the singer and suck his blood dry. To replace the lead singer the band, and their manager played with calm poise by Adrienne Barbeau (the actress, currently on "Carnavale" on HBO, is known for creating the role of Rizzo in Grease and playing Maude's daughter in the '70s TV show) decide to hold public concerts. Creating a sort of reality TV situation they select three contestants and invite the hunky boys to their private island where they will select the new singer. Immediately, there's friction with a girlfriend, a hero boy with a guitar on his back and lots of 6-pack abs and raised shirts. When the "good" contestant Shawn finds a secret cave with voodoo dolls, tons of candles, a torture rack and mysterious band photos, there's hell to pay."

OMG! That reminds me of a movie whose credentials as arty or gay are on probation, but Sleepaway Camp is the best slasher movie!

First gay fillum per se is Basil Dearden's Victim, starring Dirk Bogarde as a homo barrister in the days before Wolfenden, being scared to shit because bad men were bribing him with cottage photos. It's amazing. It's also on PBS affiliates about once every year, usually in a season with The Servant and other class-based dramas.

Also Paris is Burning seems to speak to/about the years I lived in NYC.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FP2YR2/102-1063953-7028925

still hstencil OTM about Anger, the epitome of gay "artiness"

Parting Glances
The Living End
Wild Reeds
The Opposite of Sex
Gods & Monsters
Bad Education

I want gangster movies where EVERYONE is gay!

oh, i think that a bare-chested henry II whipping himself to a bloody pulp at beckett's tomb is pretty not-subtle if you ask me.

http://www.fantoma.com/fantoma.html

george/mike kuchar
kenneth anger
jim hubbard
tom chomont
lawrence brose
james broughton
joel singer
jerry tartaglia
jack smith
willard maas
chantal akerman
su friedrich
barbara hammer
marlon riggs
john greyson

Mala Noche
My Own Private Idaho
Naked Lunch
Wild Reeds
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Tropical Malady

very puzzling that this is the only (wrongheaded) mention of todd haynes on this thread. don't pretty much all of haynes' movies fit exactly this description?

http://slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2552

Kenneth Anger in person at an hourlong screening of his 'essentials' next Saturday night at the NY Film Fest (tix still available):

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/program/avantgarde/kennethanger.html

Paul Mescal, though! I thought he was a wan little thing. Every time he chortled and looked at Andrew Scott I wanted to -- well.

First reasonably mainstream movie to feature one man cleaning up his own, er, mess from another man's chest?

I finally saw Saltburn. And I wish I had stayed home and rewatched Teorema.

something i’ll say for saltburn is i’ve never felt completely uninvolved in something “trashy” before

anyway, very bad! gorgeously lit but no one behind the camera is making images out of this gorgeous lighting! script is obviously intended to be Hilarious but it isn’t funny???? (rosamund pike doing her best)

https://t.co/k5HoOU1NLv pic.twitter.com/abH1tYD0tD

— Larry Fitzmaurice (@lfitzmaurice) December 27, 2023

Not much discussion here of Rotting in the Sun. I watched it last week and liked it, actually found it fairly affecting at the end. Won't say much because it starts out seeming like one kind of movie and becomes quite different.

There are individual scenes in All of Us Strangers that I found really affecting, and the performances were uniformly excellent, but as a narrative I'm not sure what to make of it.

I watched the trailer and determined it wasn’t for me.

Ha, I watched the trailer and determined no movie has ever been more for me.

Y'all should watch Winter Boy, a gay film of arty qualities released last year that covers some of the same ground yet is funnier and lighter.

I don’t think All of Us Strangers was meant to be light

That's the problem.

There really should be more light, funny films about grief

My problem mostly has to do with the ending.

There really should be more light, funny films about grief

― Wack Snyder (Eric H.),

I recommended one!

Hard pass then

Short read: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-of-us-strangers-bottoms-queer-storytelling-1235784736/