jimyvr

Trick
Latter Days
Cowboys & Angels
The Broken Hearts Club
Slutty Summer

Also, the new one, Another Gay Sequel. I had the chance to watch it twice before it officially on airs across the US.

anabolism

You mean, aside from the 89 other posts

Seriously, though, what sort of film are you looking for?

ajax

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Head On, a 1998 Australian film starring the delicious Alex Dimitriades.

wiredboy10003

Dimitriades was hot, but wasn't the film a dark and depressing look at gay life? I saw it quite a while ago and that's about all I remember.

Derick

Adam and Steve is by far one of the most hysterical gay movies I've ever seen. OMG I was ROTFL during the first 5 minutes, then I cried a little, and then back to ROTFL!!

98103

Funny story, the Seattle International Film Festival showed Head On in 1999 or 2000. This year, they featured Fatih Akin, a Turkish-German as an emerging master, and in addition to showing his current film, The Edge of Heaven -- which I HIGHLY recommend, they opted to show his earlier film, Gegen die Wand or "Head-On" (do you see where this is going??)

As they rolled the opening of Head-On, it was apparent that what was being shown did NOT have a hyphen in the title, which, given the opening sequence, probably confused and angered some, but aroused others. One of the passholders ran to the venue manager to alert them of the error (did he wait until the climax of the opening sequence?). They apparently showed the entire unhyphenated version and apologized profusely. The Festival Programmers later announced that one of the TBA slots at the end of the festival would have "Head-On", Akin's version.

The explanation I heard was that apparently the two films have the same US distributor, and well, someone wasn't looking close enough.


gotta agree with wiredboy, it was a depressing, disturbing film, despite the fact that Dimatriades can arouse a straight man. And then I'll disagree with Derick...Adam and Steve...Horrid movie.

ajax

I kind-of agree. It wasn't so much a dark and depressing look at gay life, more at life in general.

It wasn't bright and cheery, but it was very frank and realistic. It was also very thought-provoking.

Is it one of the best gay-themed or gay-friendly movies ever? Probably not. But it was rather highly acclaimed (at least by some) and I quite liked it.

ajax

Alright - another one which I thought was quite sweet and very underrated is "Lilies", a Canadian film set in a prison (not what you think). It's very touching.

JonathanIT

This account is from another film which should be mentioned (if it hasn't already): The Celluloid Closet. A documentary from the mid-nineties (based on a book of the same name) about the history of gays and lesbians in movies. Very entertaining, although now a bit dated (it's over ten years old).

I think it would be great if they made a sequel; not just to update but to cover what was left out.

For instance what I consider one of the greatest movies ever made has an obvious underlying gay theme: Lawrence of Arabia. Uh, anybody ever notice it's an all male cast?! Except for a few extras... there's not a woman in sight! Lawrence picked some mighty cute teenage boys to follow him around the desert (I guess they'd be "personal assistants" by today's definition), and btw a very cute romance develops between the two boys. Or how about when when Omar Sharif declares his love for Peter O'Toole? Helloooo!

KTW

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111418/

aurigakb

Loved "Bugis Street".

justforfun

Head-On was indeed a great film. Was dark, but more based in reality than a lot of other films. I'm Greek-American, and could identify with quite a few scenes.

justforfun

Bent and Before Night Falls also great flicks.

ESPECIALROB

"The Children's Hour" - Audrey Hepburn & Shirley MacLaine (1961)

bcmatt

Looks like there is a lot of agreement between the movies in this thread and - The Fifty Greatest Gay Movies!