My top 10 gay movie list ... what are yours?
The thread just below about the Oscars got me to thinking about which "gay"-themed movies I've seen over the years are my favourites.
I must admit to enjoying Brokeback Mountain very much, but quite honestly I cannot see it as a "Best Picture" winner (IMHO of course). When comparing it to Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, for me 'Brokeback" comes of in second place, not first. I simply thought The Wedding Banquet to be a better film ... though certainly less dramatic and spectacular.
At any rate, here is a list of my personal top 10 gay films ~ in order of preference.
ALL these films are terrific, but Happy Together is arguably heads and shoulders above the rest . . . in terms of both quirky film making and the strangely invigorating-yet-despressing overall mood.
As you can probably tell, I am a great Stephen Frears fan ( Prick up Your Ears and My Beautiful Launderette). Some years after making these 2 smallish films listed below, he directed the mesmerising Les Liasons Dangereux.
How about sharing your own list . . . ?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ges2/top10.jpgThe last photo in this group is from a small made-for-TV film for which I could not find a poster, so I copied a still shot from the movie itself. It's called Doing Time on Maple Drive and is unexpectedly excellent. It starts off as a fairly typical "coming out to the family" movie, but is filled to the brim with fine acting, some wonderfully fleshed-out characters, meandering story lines (the Gay Comer-outer ~ the kid in the middle of the family photo ~ is not the only drama here), and a VERY early turn by a VERY youthful Jim Carrey, who can't live up to either his father's expectations, or match the news of his brother's gayness.
Cheers ...
Going way back--And speaking of crap
The Children's Hour: Shirty McLaid and Audrey Heartburn.
Gilda: There is a gay bit but, if you blinked you missed it--And again in:
Inside Daisy Clover: Redford's character was gay.
?... The one with Bacall & Bogart: The art dealer & his boyfriend...etc.
Suddenly, Last Summer.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (The 'gay business' was expunged from the movie, but we knew.)
Reflections in a Golden Eye...Liz, again.
Midnight Cowboy.
Taking Care of Mr. Sloan. Pure camp.
La Cage Funnier in French.
The worst--Gay, straight...whatever...movie of all time, not even good camp; the leather-lesbian, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! And I sat through the whole damn thing...What one will do on a rainy Saturday afternoon in a strange town and you see a theater you heard is a grope-show. So I left there ten minutes into the second feature: an almost-as-bad Andy Warhole thing I can't remember the name of, and went off to see my first gay porn flick--And the manager asked me to leave: because I laughed so hard --Not at the movie but all the hats and rain coats bobbing up-and-down! he took me to his office for discipline--His--So it wasn't a total waste.
Everyone Tells Me, I'm Not All There.
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Originally Posted by NorthStar
I think that might have been "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" but it was the 1960s when I saw it and it is said that anyone who remembers the '60s, wasn't there.
Yes, right on both counts: I saw it on late-night television: the movie--And the 60's.
I can't believe I forgot...
The Boys in the Band
This was adapted from an excellent stage play, and the movie was a nod to the then-emerging nationaladmission that homosexuals exist.
If it was made today then GLAAD would condemn it for its "negative gay stereotypes" due to the portrayals of screaming, bitchy, catty, campy queenies...although the film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Love, Valour, Compassion didn't seem to raise that many hackles
probably becasue it wasn't a very good adaptation