Fabulous!
The Story of Queer Cinema 
As you might have guess I love Gay movies and so when there is a new film or book about them I have to see them or have them.
My all time favorite is The Celluloid Closet which was excellent. This new film takes a different path from The Celluloid Closet as it focus mainly on Lesbian / Transgender and Independent film rather than male gay films. In life there is a place for everything and even though I felt a little left out I like the film. It traces a lot of gay/lesbian /transgender history along side of the movie reviews. One nice angle of the film is that the interview a lot of directors (many gay) on how the film came about and was made. This will go down in history as a sort of Part 2 of Gay / Lesbian / transgender film history.Phillip
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Faculty,
The
USA: 110 mins:
This story is from the gay writer Kevin Williamson and is about aliens which are trying to take over a school. A group of the teenagers band together and try to get the Aliens out of their school. This film is mentioned not because of it´s great plot or filming but because one of the teenagers is a Lesbian ! Phillip
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Fairy for Dessert, A
(Original title: Eine Tunte Zum Dessert)
Director: Dagmar
Beiersdorf
Germany : 1992 : 84 mins. : Gay/Transvestite : Drama :
With: Lothar Lambert as Julchen:
This is a very funny low budget about a transvestite who has a man and a child. He/She is slightly overweight - a bad looking drag and mostly happy with never a dull minute in his/her life. Fun to watch as it is so different from a "normal" gays life ! Phillip
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Fall für
Zwei, Ein
(rough translation : A Case For Two)
Episode:
Schweigen ist Gold (rough translation : Keeping Quiet Pays
Off)
Germany 1992, 59 Mins.
Hanno Bremer confess to killing a Homosexual man. When his lawyer tells him how long he will spend in prison, he takes back his confession and says he was paid 250,000 Deutsch Marks for the untrue confession. Phillip
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Falling
Down
Director: Joel Schumacher
France / USA: 1993: 108 to
115 mins:
In this film about a man who goes to war with everyone - there are two gay characters: and they are Peter Radon as the Gay Man and Spencer Rochfort as the second Gay Man. Phillip
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This is the story of two
men who in the USA in the 1950´s. It is not openly gay film but anyway it is
gay with Leon and Florence as lovers . Leon is often looking lovingly
into Florence (what a name !!) eyes with longing. There are more than a
few times when Florence wants to get his friend to do what he wants by
saying: gay story ! Phillip
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This movie is about students who are at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. It follows the students from the first audition to get into the school until they graduate. Basically it is the story of four friends. Coco who is a very out going person, Doris who is basically shy, Raul who is very pushy and sure of himself and Montgomery who is sensitive and gay (who isn't). If you want to find out more about their friendship see the movie., students Phillip Note: Montgomery says lines like: Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it? |
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FAMILY
ALBUM I
have watched this made for TV about an actress who meets and fall
in love with the man of her dreams. They marry and start a family which
produces two girls and two boys - so far so good but one of the boys
turns out gay. The mother accepts this but the father just can not. The
son becomes an outcast in his own family. This in turn casues major
problems to the family and you will jut have to see this to find out
what is the outcome and effect on them all. Very intresting filming
which is well worth a look especailly for straigths who have a gay in
the family.
Phillip
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This is a film about a psychopath who goes from being a loyal fan to a legend (Lauren Bacall) - to a guy who wants the star dead. Along the way he picks up a gay man at a bar and takes him up to a roof for sex. As the guy is performing orally on him he kills him... UGH just when the sex scene was getting good ! anyway the film is a good thriller - even if the gay dies. Phillip |
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This film was filmed in Mandarin and is the story of Douzi and Shitou who at a very early age are trained to become performers at the Peking Opera,. One is trained to play the female role and the other is trained to play the male roles in the opera. The boys grown up together and seem to play the same parts in real life as in the opera. All goes well until a woman enters into their lives and they break-up over her. After the split the cultural revolution in China takes it toll on all three of them. The film is wonderful to watch and the story line is very interesting and work a look.... Phillip Note: there are various versions of this film in existence. |
Far
From Sunset Boulevard
Far
From Heaven
(French title: Loin
du paradis)
Director & Writer: Todd Haynes
With:
Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid
USA / France 2002: 108 Mins:
This is the story of a couple in the late 1950´s who´s relationship runs into trouble when Kathy Whittaker finds out that her husband Frank is gay and if that is not too much of a shock she in turns falls in love with their African-American gardener. This movie will take you back to the times when if was illegal to be homosexual and the thought of coming out was far into the future, although the husband in this film files for divorce and moves in with the boy he fall in love with. A journey back into the bad years for homosexuals but i did enjoy the film and you should see it too to see what these years were like. Phillip
Fashion
Victim: The Killing of Gianni Versace
Another look at the life and death of Gianni Versac. This one includes interviews with his friends and people he worked with and then to people who knew his murderer Andrew Cunanan. Phillip
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This portrait of German gay director Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the story of his last year alive, he is 37, over weight and is about to die of an over-dose of drugs. Wolf Gremm takes you back to relive that year.Phillip
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This is another portrait of the life and works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Phillip |
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A short abut women who meet in a ladies room and what happens.Phillip
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Fast
ForwardIn this 5 minutes short which takes place in a club you see a young boy who is 16 turn into an old man of 70 without learning the why and how of love ! Phillip
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Fast Trip, Long Drop
Director: Gregg Bordowitz
USA : 1994 : 54 Mins. : Documentary
: aids : gay
With: Gregg Bordowitz:
This is a autobiographical film/video about Aids and the HIV infection. It is on one hand a very serious subject which is handled on the other hand as satire. There are fake TV programs dealing with the subject as quite funny. Gregg was often quite strange with a motto " I am Aids - I am Sick and I don't want a cure. Not the normal type of documentary but maybe it is just what is needed a little fun ? Phillip
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Cyanne’s life is in a mess with too much sex and drugs. This starts to effect her career when comes along special help from the hot L.A. dykes on bikes.Phillip
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This is the story of a wedding. The person organizing this wedding is Franck Eggelhoffer (played by Martin Short) who is a hyper queen doing all the moves of a sissy character. I must admit I laughed also but is this type of character the image we want the world to see ? I think it is OK as there are so many good movies coming out with the manly type of gay. I think people have to get used to ALL types of gays. Anyway see the movie just for the fun of it...Phillip |
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She's BACK ! Franck Egglehoffer (Martin Short) is back and this time coordinating the decoration of a baby room. Still a sissy part and still funny ! Phillip |
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Fed Time
Director: Daron Fordham
2004
In this comedy there is a gay character Flamboyant gay inmate played by Khris Gibsto. Phillip
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Feeding Boys
This film about male prostitution in
China is a exposure of the lifestyle the guy live. A well made film by
the director and a look as to why a person would want to be a
hustler. The main character has a strange way to see his calling
but to each his own. Well films and a good story line this film is well
worht a look and is enjoyable to see and experrience. I hope more films
will come out of China as it opens our eyes to another world and i also
hope that director Cui Zi'en will be doing more films in the near future !
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It is the first century of
Rome and two friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, get into an argument about
who owns the boy Gitone. They split their belongings and break up.
Gitone is told to choose between the two and he chooses who Ascilto.
Encolpio decides to commit suicide - as he is left alone without either
of his lovers.. He takes off only to have many adventures. Later on he
is reunited with Ascilto. Together they help a man kidnap a
hermaphrodite demi-god from a temple. The hermaphrodite demi-god dies
and as mortals are punished when this happens Encolpio becomes
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Betty Woods as Mrs.
Davenport and Sally Turner as Divine's double (what ? was there really
a Divine double ? WOW that's what being a star is all about !) |
Festen
(English title: The
Celebration)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg.
Denmark:
1998, 101 Mins:
With: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo
Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm, Helle Charlotte
Dolleris, Klaus Bondam, Bjarne Henriksen:
Helge Klingenfeldt is about to have his 60th birthday so he decides to call the entire family together for a party but it is not a happy one as his son gives him a shock when he tells the family that he was sexual misused as a child. Phillip
La
fête des pères
Rough translation: Party of the
fathers)
Director: Joy Fleury
France: 1989, 77 Mins:
With:
Thierry Lhermitte, Alain Souchon, Gunilla Karlzen, Micheline Presle,
Rémi Martin, Didier Benureau, Jean-Louis Foulquier:
Thomas (played by Thierry Lhermitte) and Stéphane (played by Alain Souchon) are lovers but they find that something is missing in their relationship - a kid. So they set out to adopt one but run into all kinds of problems to do so. This is typical French comedy but this time with a gay story line. Phillip
This is a compulation of 9 short films dealing the 1950´s : Some are quite moving but all are worth seeing !
1. Boys Will Be Boys is a musical film about boys just being boy (or what they believe d they should be in the 50´s
2.Do I Need To Draw You A Map? About boys getting their sexual education from a coach.
3.Why
Do You Think They Call Them Strangers?
About the dangers of hitchhiking and homosexuals who prey on them.
4.Sooner Or Later The Girlfriend Always Finds Out. Mary and Jeff go on a date. Jeff gets outed.
5.The Shy Guy Sometimes Ends Up On Top. Can a shy guy fit in ?
6.
Does
Mom Know, Or Doesn’t She.
What will happen to Hal as he is in the the wrong croud ? Hal
travels with the wrong crowd
7.There Are No Jocks In Drama Club. You will not find athletic men in the Drama Club !
8. It’s Foolish To Consider Marriage A Cure. Marriage is nto always the right solution. Marriage is not always the right solution.
9. Don´t Ask, Don´t tell. WOW a musical which takes place in the Army Showers.
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Fifth of July This filming of Fifth of July is the story of Ken Talley (remember John Boy ? - well here he is grown up and in a gay role - just as you always wanted him to be) who is 32, good-looking and a Vietnam vet who had both legs shot off seven years ago. He has a lover called Jed who is a strong type and takes good care of Ken, he also loves to do gardening for their house. Most of this story takes place on the 4th of July (the American Independence day) weekend in 1977. It is a very moving look at past and presents relationships which have been effect by Ken and his injury, plus it is a weekend that will effect all their futures. The film is sometime bitchy, sometimes sad but there is a love there (under all the hurt and bitchiness) between all the family. There is also John who Ken loved as youth. Very moving and well done. Richard Thomas is very good in it. Phillip
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Fighting
Tommy Riley 
Fingersmith This is a take off on all the early Warhol films like Chelsea Girls - Bike Boy and My Hustler. It is the story of a male hustler who says he has the biggest dick in Toronto and his dumb dumb fag hag roommate who only has eyes for breast implants. Filmed in the true Warhol style of camera work but did we really want this amateur style in the 90´s ? Phillip
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Finding
North
It´s Friday evening and we are taken to the Brooklyn bridge where a naked man (Travis) is getting ready to commit suicide. Along comes Rhoda who is in a car with friends and suddenly sees Travis. She tries to rush out to help him but her friends stop her and tell her to mind her own business. She looks again and it looks as if Travis has leaped into the water. The onlz thing left of him is a shoe.
But the film takes a turn when Travis is not dead and shows up at Rhonda´s work causing a things to get out of control on what is her 30th birthday. She is then fired as before she lived a quiet normal life and now with this stranger entering into her life she is suddenly losing control. Anyway not wanting to go home and tell her parents about being fired she goes to a diner with the rest of her birthday cake.
She is somehow drawn to Travis and there are tapes made by his love who died of Aids and what she hjears leads her to a town in Texas. Does Travis want her help and what is the taped message all about. You will just have to see for yourselves this rather complicated films but keeps you watching till the end ! Phillip
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Fire
Director:
Deepa Mehta
1996 Canada/India: 1996: 104 mins:
With: Shabana
Azmi as Radha and Nandita Das as Sita:
The film location is New Delhi Sita where a beautiful and intelligent young woman starts an arranged marriage to a man she does not love and he certainly is unfaithful. They live with a large family and are owners of a video store, also living there is Radha who wants a child but cannot conceive one. Eventually the two women enter into a sexual relationship and enjoy it more than they ever did with their husbands. Phillip
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First
a Girl
Director: Victor Saville
UK
: 1935 : 93 Mins : filmed in B/W : Comedy : Transvestite : Musical
With: Sonnie Hale and Jessie Matthews as Elizabeth:
This is the first remake of Viktor und Viktoria (1933) which was the remade as Victor/Victoria (1982. It is fun to see all the versions and see how they are similar and how they are different.) Phillip
First
love & other pains
Director:
Simon Chung
Hong Kong 1999: 50 mins: .
A 19 year old student of English literature in Hong Kong falls for his teacher, a middle-aged professor and playwright. Will this love affair stand a chance? This film pushes my buttons. I can really relate to this story! The actors do well with their parts, and helps you to see what different backgrounds these two guys come from. It's no masterpiece, and very low budget, but I really like the characters. I understood the problems these guys had to face, and so the film worked for me. Yngvar
Forces of Nature
Director: Bronwen Hughes
USA: 1999: 195 mins:
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FirstOut 1. Different -- What ?
Liberty High School is a gay school in a gay world where straights are called
breeders and have to hide. Interesting twist!
2. A Good Son -- Two young
gay boys meet and their lives will never be the same.
3. Is One of You Eddie?
-- Eddie lives in a neighborhood filled with West Hollywood types and there are
4 of them who decide Eddie doesn’t fit. Can he change - will he change see this
short.
4. Meet Joe Gay -- This
short is a about and with the gay filmmaker Benjamin Morgan who at 27 is trying
to find out why he is alone and what it take for him to get a successful
relationship.
5. The Neighborly Thing -- this short is about a gay guys obsession with his upstairs neighbor. Can he go too far to enter into his life?
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This is the story of three women who have husband trouble so they band together as for revenge.. Lots of good fun and mentioned since in one scene the women go to a lesbian bar to get help from one of the daughters ! All for fun of course...Phillip |
Fish
called Wanda, A
Director:
Charles Chrichton
UK: 1988
With: John Cleese, Kevin Cline,
Michael Palin and Jamie Lee Curtis:
Basically a romantic, straight comedy, but Kevin Cline does a lovely (fake) gay impression to fool Michael Palin into thinking he's....well..it's a bit complicated! Compare this act with the one Cline gave us in IN AND OUT, and you're witnessing a very talented actor who can do a swishy turn better than Liberace himself. Even Palin looks very impressed! Yngvar
Five
Easy Pieces
Director: Bob Rafelson
USA: 1970: 96 mins:
Not a gay film but has two lesbian characters in it. The lesbian hitchhikers are Palm Apodaca (played by Helena Kallianiotes) and Terry Grouse (played by Toni Basil). Phillip
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The film is about the discovers something new about ourselves through the senses.: For the sense of smell, Robert is a sublime, very gay, housekeeper of immaculate, smell free homes. His particular favorite is the home of a perfume designer and her very sexy gay-curious husband, whose shelves are lined with exquisite glass bottles filled with miraculous scents. The sense of touch is shown by a massage therapist with a troubled daughter. A client, Anna Miller comes in with her daughter Elize to get a massage. Elize is antsy so they send teenage Rachel out to the park with her. Rachel becomes distracted by two people making love in the woods and she loses track of her charge. The search and worry over a missing girl are the unifying threads of the film. She is caught peeping by Rupert a young, probably gay, voyeur whom she befriends, they have a common interest- peeping. Rupert takes her to spot in the park where gay men have sex and her wellspring is opened. Mary-Louise Parker does an excellent job with her character, who refuses to open up to a hunky Italian lover; taste is the key to her heart. Of the five male characters in the film, three are gay or bisexual. Claudio
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As the story moves on we are not sure if Frank is
faking or really has a feeling to change to straight. Has his lover a finger in
this?
A very interesting film although i get annoyed at
these Doctors who take advantage of gay men who are unsure of themselves and
are listening to other people telling them what they should be. So it is a hard
review to write as I do not believe one changes from gay to hetero or vice
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Flash!
Director: Annabel Schofield
USA: 2002
Another movie with a campy too much hairdressor called Warren... My goodness how many of them are there out there :-) Phillip
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Flesh (not Flash!) Gordon travels to the planet Porno to stop the evil emperor Wang from destroying Earth with his Sex Rays. Porno turns out to be very gay friendly planet, inhabited by a lesbian guerrilla tribe, a gay Robin Hood (who actually seduces Flesh in the woods), the transvestite emperor and a lot of fetishistic orgies in the palace. This sex comedy was intended as hard core porn, but the producers trimmed it down to an R-rating to get a bigger audience. If you like campy, bad taste science-fiction with cheesy special effects, look no further. I had a great time watching it, anyway. Yngvar Note: it's available on DVD! |
Flavor of Corn, The Only the Italians could film this story with such openness and emotion. It is the story of a very good looking high school teacher who is trying hard to be heterosexual and that ends when he ends his relationship with his girlfriend and he sees that this is not the life for him. He finds himself slowly entering into a relationship with a 12 year old student and is of the same sex. He tries his best to pull away from this relationship but finds that Duilio is just too of a need for him. The whole relation ship comes to a head when Duilio´s Step-mother starts questioning the relationship. Phillip
Flawless
Director and Written by: Joel Schumacher
USA: 1999: 112 mins:
With: Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz,and drag queen
/trans gender: Rusty Zimmerman is played by Phillip S. Hoffman, Barry
Miller as Leonard Wilcox, Chris Bauer as Jacko, Skipp Sudduth as
Tommy, Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Cha-Cha, Nashom Benjamin as Amazing
Grace, Scott Allen Cooper as Ivana, Raven O. as Notorious
F.A.G, Joseph Arias as Stormy, Kent Fuher (used name: Jackie Beat) as
Gypsy, Rod Rodriguez as Lesbian, Alice Williams as Lesbian, Charles
Ching as Coco LaChine, Singer, Mitchell Lichtenstein as Gay
Republican Spokesperson, John Fink as Gay Republican Lawyer, Bret
Kropp as Drag Queen plus others:
I liked this film a lot. It is the story of a ex-hero policeman who is straight and certainly homophobic. in his building lives as pre-op transgender and a flamboyant drag queen. They seem to be set to hate each for a lifetime but then the straight guy called Walt Koontz suffers a stroke and can not use his vocal cords. Low and behold the drag queen becomes his vocal trainer and helps him get the use of his vocal cords back by giving him singing lessons. Slowly Walter discovers that drag queens / gays /trans genders are not as bad as he thought. I really liked the relationship between the straight and the drag queens which develops during the move.. A must see ! Phillip
Note: you will hear the famous line: :
"I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get," said by Hoffman, Philip Seymour to Robert De Niro and in Car Wash the same line was said by Antonio Fargas to Bill Duke in another Joel Shumacher film: Car Wash from 1976.
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A lot of people were fooled into thinking this was an Andy Warhol film but in reality it was a Paul Morrissey film (although he worked closely with Andy and Andy did produce this film). It is the story of a young man who ends up working as a male hustler in order to pay for his wife's (yes she is a Lesbian ) girlfriends abortion and for his heroin habit. He ends up working for a strange group of people - including transvestites and a strange photographer. The situations are often very funny but at the same time realistic. A must for Joe Dallesandro fans.Phillip |
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This is a wonderful film to see and to think it was made in 1927 WOW ! Leo and Ulrich are life long friends and seem satisfied at being together - and then they meet Felicitas at the railroad station. Leo is taken by her beauty and she brings him home to her room, not telling him that she is married to a Count. Of course, the count comes in and there is a duel. The count is killed and Leo is sent away to Africa (to serve in the Military for punishment) for 5 years. He asks Ulrich to watch over her and is confident that when he returns he will be with her but as he finds out she has married Ulrich. Got the story so far ? Ulrich is rich and she has never told him that she was with his "best" friend". When he finds out he stays away from the both of them but she tries to get him as her lover. The triangle continues till the end where there is a great scene with her dying while Leo and Ulrich reunite in an embrace... See the film and watch the end this is how it should be in Hollywood..Phillip |
Flint
the Time Detective
Cartoon TV series
Japan / USA: 1999: 21
mins:
The detective goes back in time to the Copenhagen in the 1800´s. They meet with writer Hans Christian Andersen. They find the situation sad that no one in that time understand his writing - hum could be that they did not know he was gay ? Phillip
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This is a fun road movie and the gay couple Paul and Tony certainly speak their minds and they have info on gay sex and love which they pass on to their straight friends. Paul Tony get along well but they have one large fight over a woman of all things ! Phillip |
Floating
USA:
142 mins:
Director: William Roth
With Norman Reedus and Chad
Lowe
Van is a young man whos life is a mess but he is trying to get it together again as he matures. Some strange things happen to him and the people who are around him - so watch this film to discover just what I am talking about..Oh don´t let the cover drive you away - watch the film. Phillip
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Johnny Rebel is a charismatic straight actor who earns a living doing gay films. His girlfriend Babylon is an understanding stripper who is familiar with the harsh reality of the porn industry. Their paths cross with that of Sean McGinnis, an ambitious young man who comes to LA willing to do anything for success. After seeing one of Johnny’s movies, Sean becomes obsessed and gets a job as a cameraman at the studio where the actor works, just to get closer to the object of his desire. A chain of events ensues that will change all of their lives forever. The film took part in the Panorama section of the official selection at the Berlin Festival, 2001. Claudio
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Fogi is a Bastard
Food
of Love
Director: Ventura Pons
(original
title: Manjar De Amor)
Spain:
2002: 112 mins
With:Juliet Stevenson, Paul Rhys, Allan Corduner:
This is an adaptation of David Leavitt's novel "The Page Turner", a drama of a young gay pianist, his overbearing mother and his tempestuous first love. One night in San Francisco Paul, a sexually repressed aspiring pianist works as a page turner for his idol, the famed pianist Richard Kennington. Later in Barcelona, they meet up again and embark on a passionate affair. Claudio
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This is the story of Jeroen who is a dancer. He recalls his first homo erotic friendship in a series of flash backs. This is the relationship between himself and a handsome Canadian soldier called Walt. The flashbacks take place in the Netherlands at almost the end of W.W.II. The Allies arrive and Jeroen and Walt meet and enter into a relationship between a man and a boy. The subject is handled with a openness and truth which could never be handled as subject matter in most countries..Phillip |
Forbidden
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This film stars Michael Gambon as Oscar Wilde and the focus is the tragic story of Wilde´s triangle relationship with his wife and with Lord Alfred Douglas - this relationship brought Wilde into jail and was the basis for the fall of a man who had wonderful talent. Wilde never fully recovered from the trial and everyone turning their backs on him. He died a very lonely man. His one true love Lord Douglas turned out to be his downfall. Phillip |
Forces
of Nature
Director:Bronwen Hughes
USA:
1999: 105 mins:
With: Ben Affleck:
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This is set in a reform school for young boys in Sicily. A straight teacher comes to teach the boys and soon discovers that they are from a different world as he is from. There is one boy who wants to have sex with another and ends up in trouble for that but the character that stands out is Mary, who is a very young transvestite. He/she is at the reform school for working as a prostitute and injuring one of her tricks who wanted to play rough. The teacher tries to teach the young boys but it is a rough struggle among these lost boy The boys playing in this film are simply natural talent and the way that the film deals with sexual subjects - makes it a must for you to see. Phillip |
Forgive
and Forget
Director: Aisling Walsh
UK:2000: 100
mins:
With: Steve John Shepherd, John Simm and Laura Fraser:
David and Theo are just friends but David has a crush on his friend so he decides to go on a TV program to tell his friend about his real feelings - Will it help ? see the film. Claudio
Formula 17
Første bud
Director:
Anders Gjesvik
Norway 2002: 12 mins:
Per is a bit disillusioned, but orders a pizza anyway. The pizza guy arrives and he's kinda cute, so what does Per do? Sounds like the start of some dirty movie, but it's nothing like that! See for yourself, it may turn up at your local film festival.The script won first prize in a competition held by the Queer film Society in Oslo. It's nice to see gay films being produced on a regular basis in my country. It was about time, too. Yngvar
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This is what the critics
call a shocking film. It takes place in a prison and is about
homosexual life in the prison. There is a great character called
"Queenie" and is played by Michael Greer (who was the wonderful
landlady in The Gay Deceivers! I am sure you will want to keep out of
prison once you have seen this film. Phillip |
Forty Deuce
Director:
Paul Morrissey
USA : 1982 : 89 Mins : Drama : Gay : Hustlers
With: Kevin Bacon, Orson Bean, Tommy Citera, Mark Keyloun and
Harris Laskaway:
Well if you like Kevin Bacon as I do, you will find this film a really good one and it is gay. He plays a young hustler who picks up a young boy and even though he has feelings for this young boy, he wants to sell the boys sexual services to an older man to get drug money for himself. The plans goes wrong when the boy dies. It is a really low life story and Kevin Bacon is great in it. Phillip
Note: This film was a step up for Director, Paul Morrissey (who made most of the Warhol films)
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A bisexual novelist finds out that this three time widowed girlfriend - who has seduces him is engaged to a fourth man. He sets about to learn more about his girlfriend by seducing the forth man, - after he is connected to him by Homo erotic dreams. This film is a Gothic thriller and in the end he discovers the widows secret and you can too by seeing the film.Phillip |
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Four-Eyed Monsters
Directors: Susan Buice & Arin Crumley :
USA: 2005: 85 mins:
Yes there is a gay couple in this film watch out at the pizza shop..Phillip
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Four Rooms This film is listed as
Madonna plays both a bisexual and a sorceress in this film. And she
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This is basically a straight comedy film about romance and weddings, but there are two gays lovers in the film called Gareth and Matthew. They are a gay couple who's love is shown as totally normal - if not more normal as the Straight relationships. They interact with all the straight´s as friends and not just as gays. I think this is the way we will be shown in the future after we get the same rights as straights. We will be in the film shown in many different ways but we will be shown as normal characters with a small difference - we are gay. By the way Hugh Grant is also great in this film. See it ! Phillip |
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I really love this film and although it is a brutal look at gay life it is none the less one of the first films I have seen where it doesn't matter if the parts are homosexual or heterosexual people. So that makes it a normal story with men who happen to be gay. It is about Fox who is a poor working class guy (play by R.W. Fassbinder - when he still had some sex appeal) he one day is down on his luck as the job he had at the circus is over. He has this itchy feeling that if he plays the Lotto on this day he will win. After picking up a rich man who will not give him the money to play but is willing to drive him around he cheats a very gay florist out of the money he needs and he get the Lotto ticket and wins. He is hunted down by a so called wealthy gay man who through many tricks gets all of Fox´s lotto money away from him and Fox is left almost what he started out. It is sad to see the rich (don't let appearances fool you) man using Fox and plotting with his (ex) friend to get his money away from him. It is also sad to see Fox trying his best to move in a social class which is far above him. You will want to take Fox in your arms and help him find his way in life. A very very moving film and if you haven't see it please do! If you think it is just another Fassbinder film where life is depressing think again this is a great film! Phillip |
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This film is too much. It has the Baron Frankenstein trying to create a new race of humans out of body parts. He makes the man and for the brain thinks he is getting a womanizing man but in reality he gets the of a man who is about to become a Monk but at the same time is hot after his friend. They go to a brothel and the friend is watching his friend have sex all the time he is there. At the end of the evening he loses his head mistakenly (Frankenstein wanted the other man).. So it is not surprising when the monster shows no interest in having sex with females. If he had made him a male that is another story. The Baron's wife (or is she his sister - every few minutes their relationship changes) who is sex starved can't get an erection out of the monster in fact he kills her during the attempted sex. The ending scene is horrible. In order to get the R Rating the film has to be cut. and I have been told the film has even more blood and guts falling out in the original pre-cut version Excuse me ??? this was fun and gory enough even I have my limits !!fun fun fun see it.!!..Phillip |
Florida Enchantment, A
Director: Sidney Drew
USA : 1914 : 63 Mins. : Filmed in B/W :
Silent film : Comedy - sex change
With: Sidney Drew as Dr. Fred
Cassadene, Edith Storey as Miss Lillian Travers, Charles Kent as
Major Horton, and Jane Morrow as Bessie Horton:
This film is based on the 1896 Broadway play and is considered the earliest cross dressing film. It is about a woman who discovers that seeds from a tree changes people sex. She becomes a man in a woman's body by eating them and goes around kissing women on the lips. Then the film takes a twist and her ex-boyfriend who eats one and becomes a woman in a mans body. Well all cross dressing films have to start somewhere. Phillip
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A charming rip-off of Saturday night fever, Strictly ballroom and any other dance-movie you'll remember. One of the characters is a transsexual man whose parents reject him when he reveals his secret to them. A sad moment in an otherwise funny and light-hearted comedy about disco-dancers. The transsexual man, by the way, is portrayed by one of Singapore's real-life transvestites! Yngvar
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The story of a woman who is with a guy half her age but could it be that he is gay? Phillip
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As a kid I loved this film and always hope that Frankenstein´s monster would learn how to talk and find someone to love. Then, a few years back I discovered that the film was made by James Whale (who was out when the word did not exist). I then watched the film again and discovered that only a gay person could make this horror film which is so different than any of the others. Have a look at the film and you will see how unique it really is and how it holds up through the years ! Phillip Note James Whale also made "Bride of Frankenstein". |
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´This is the screen adaption of the play by Gay playwright Terrence McNally who also wrote the play. It is about NYC and the people who live there. The reason it is listed here is that Nathan Lane gets to play the Gay next door neighbor and does he have a good role...Phillip ___________________________________________________________________________________________
 Frida Director: Julie Taymor USA/Canada/Mexico : 2002: 123 mins: With: Selma Hayek as Frida: Frida is an artist who is also a bisexual Mexican and this is the Bio about her life. Phillip |
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I have been told that this story of female friendships contains a lesbian story line but from the film I watched it is probably better to read Fannie Flagg's novel which has the same name as it really does have a lesbian story line.Phillip |
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Two women prisoners break
out of prison and their plan is to escape to Mexico. The one woman is a
lesbian and the other is a bulimic. There i a lot of violence in this
film and lots of dead bodies - not my style film !!! Phillip
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Friends
& Family
Direction: Kristen Coury
With: Christopher
Gartin, Edward Hibbert, Greg Lauren, Rebecca Creskoff, Tony Lo
Bianco, Tovah Feldshuh:
Stephen and Danny are a special gay couple. They are good looking, they have a stable relationship, a great house in New York City but they have a big secret - nope not that they are gay, everyone knows that. They are hit men for the mafia !All goes well until Stephan s parents want to visit them. They have to hide their profession since his father is an FBI man.
A big party is planned to pretend that they have another profession- catering. There is a big surprise and a fun end to the film and I would have watched it just for the two hunks but i enjoyed the film a lot - have fun watching it...Phillip
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Six friends travel to a ski resort for the week-end to help one of them get together with his estranged father. OK. Let me put it to you straight: This is one baaaaad movie. A kind of dirtier version of the TV-series "Friends". Except...it's not funny, just stupid. But look! There's a nice little gay love item in this one. Danny Nucci plays a shy virgin who is looking for Mr. Right. Does he find him? Well if you can tolerate idiotic chatter about the length of Claudia Schiffers nipples and suffer Robert Downey's horrible German accent - you'll find out. Plus you get to see cutie-pie Neill Barry stark bollocks naked, full frontal. In glorious close-up. I kid you not. So then. 2 good reasons to rent this movie, 2 good reasons not to. Take your pick! Yngvar |
The film is about a 16 year old boy called Kristian who is quite shy and starting out at a new school. He is drawn to two boys in his school. Henrik who is has sexual charisma and Patrick who is blond, loud and moody. The friendship with these two boys helps Kristian´s self -confidence Then the film takes a twist and the friendship will be put to the test. A charming, story of friendship and sexuality between three 16 year old schoolboys. It's sexy, funny, and guiltless. Phillip
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James Bond, 007, is sent on a mission to Istanbul to try and get a Russian cypher machine known as Lektor. What ? OK it is a James Bond plot so we really don't have to understand the above do we ? What we should know is that along the way James Bond meets up with the Russian agent called Rose Kelly who is a lethal Lesbian - a what ? yes you read it right !- that's how they billed Lotte Lenya who played this part.Phillip |
From The Woods
Norway:
2002: Short: 1 min.
Directed by Jan Steinum
A man with a very big..eh…thingie..is led around a forest by another man. The thingie is very much in evidence. And it’s real. Trust me. (The man is called Bjarne, and no – I don’t have his phone number) Short, sharp and funny. Look for it at your local gay film-festival. Yngvar
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This is the Wilder 1974 remake and is mentioned here as there is a sissy in it.... David Wayne plays Bensinger who is a sissy and one of the best journalists in the film. In the end he gets his man (a younger male journalist) and they leave for Cap Code to set-up an antique boutique together..Phillip
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Germany: 2002: 101 mins Director: Winfried Bonengel. With: Harry Baer as Friedhelm Kaltenbach, Christian Blümel as Heiko Degner, Jule Flierl as Beate), Aaron Tristan Hildebrand as Tommy Zierer and Luci van Org as Elisabeth Degner:
In this German film Heiko ends up in prison because he tried to escape the DDR. He is a quite attractive boy and in prison he is raped by another very handsome man (naked scene in the showers). Then when another tried to force him to have sex with him he stabs him. Interesting prison drama which includes a look into the Neo Nazi scene - worth a peek ! Phillip |
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This film is about a girl who lives in a very small Swedish village. She is in her puberty years and to top that she is in love with a blond who is the one girl that everyone wants. See the film to find out if she gets over her puberty and if she gets the girl !!! A romantic movie about young love...Phillip
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Is the story of 6
unemployed steelworkers and the fun way they decide to solve Note: you will certainly have a fun time watching this film ! Phillip |
Fun
With: Alicia Witt and Renee Humphrey.
Story about two girl friends who decide to commit crimes together – if you watch out closely there are lesbian overtones between the two girls. Phillip
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Well this is a fun film to describe : It is about Buddy who lives in a small town with his parents. The only thing exciting happening there is that Buddy jerks himself off to Playgirl magazines. He knows there must be something better than this so he leaves his family and moves to New York City's East Village. During the first week there he gets a job, makes new friends, has sexual encounters and "maybe" falls in love. Not bad for one week right ? Phillip |
Funeral Parade of Roses
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Japan : 1969 : 105 minutes :
Gay/Gay Transvestite : Drama :
The first Japanese film to deal unabashedly with gay culture, it's a modern parody of the Oedipus legend, except that this time the Oedipus character, Eddy, must eliminate his obstructive mother for the wild embrace of his father. In Japanese with English subtitles. Phillip
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This film is listed as a comedy aids road movie and will be reviewed as soon as it is seen. |
UK: 2004: 90 mins
If you ever wondered what it is like to go from a female to a male this film is for you. It is the story of transgendered singer-songwriter Simon de Voil who even writes his own songs)- A very special film and certainly worth seeing. Phillip
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Barbra is really good in this second part of Funny Girl but the person to watch is Roddy McDowall playing her gay friend called Bobby Moore. Phillip
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Fall Time 
Fame 
Fan, The
Farewell, My Concubine 
Das filmische Weltgericht des Rainer Werner Fassbinder 
Father of the Bride 
Father of the Bride: Part II 
Fellini´s Satyricon 
Female Trouble 
First Wives Club, The 
Five Senses, The 
Flesh Gordon 
Flesh 
Flesh and the Devil 
Flirting with Disaster 
Fluffer, The 
For A Lost Soldier 
Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde 
Forever Mary 
Fortune and Men´s eyes 
Fourth Man, The 
Four weddings and a funeral 
Fox and His Friends 
Flesh for Frankenstein 
Frankenstein 
Frankie and Johnny
Fried Green Tomatoes 
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
Friends and lovers 
From
Russia with Love 
Front Page, The 
Fuhrer Ex 
Fucking Åmål 
Full Monty
Fun Down There 
Funny Felix 
Funny Lady