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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema  
Directors: Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg
USA: 2006: Documentary:
With: Randy Barbato as Himself, Dan Bucatinsky as Himself, Jonathan Caouette as Himself, Ash Alonso Duralde as Himself, Stephen Gutwillig as Himself, Todd Haynes as Himself, Marcus Hu as Himself, Nina Landey as Herself, Ang Lee as Himself, Jennie Livingston as Herself, Jane Lynch as Herself, Heather Matarazzo as Herself, John Cameron Mitchell as Himself, Michael Musto as Himself, Jenni Olson as Herself, Peter Paige as Himself, Billy Porter as Himself, B. Ruby Rich as Herself, Angela Robinson as Herself, Don Roos as Himself, Rose Troche as Herself, Guinevere Turner as Herself, Christine Vachon as Herself, Gus Van Sant as Himself and others:

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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Fag Hag  
Director / Writer: Damion Dietz
USA: 1998: /73 mins:
Contains gay character: Keythe Farley as the the mixed-up gay basher. 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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 Fall Time
Director: Paul Warner
USA : 1995; 88 Mins: Drama : Gay
With: Mickey Rourke as Florence, Stephen Baldwin as Leon, Jason London as Tim, David Arquette as David and Jonah Blechman as Joe:

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:

"You know I Love You. !" to Leon. They decide to rob a bank and involve 3 teenagers and then the film turns to S&M when they hold the boys hostage. Leon is driven crazy when he thinks Florence is double crossing him. If will like this film if you are used to see films about gay made without really really showing it. Use your imagination and it is there. Maybe in years to come it will be remade as a truly 
gay story ! Phillip


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Fame  
Director: Alan Parker
USA : 1980 : 134 Mins : Musical : Gays
With: Paul McCrane as Montgomery MacNeil, Barry Miller as Raul/Ralph Garcia and Maureen Teefy as Doris Finsecker:

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
USA from a book by Danielle Stee
With: Jacklyn Smith, Michael Ontkean

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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Fan, The
With: Lauren Bacall:

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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FAQs

Directed by Everett Lewis Joe Lia
USA: 2005: 95 mins
With: Lance Lee Davis as Spencer , Bryan Endress-Fox as Deryl, Adam Larson as Guy, Joe Lia as India, Allan Louis as Destiny, Vince Parenti as Officer Vic Damone, Joshua Paul as Quentin, Minerva Vier as Lester:

I just finished watching this film. I had no idea what to expect as the description of the film said gay action film with a large black transvestite called Destiny - well what I saw was a really good gay action film with a very unusual story line but very worth seeing. Destiny is a gun packing transvestite and is willing to use it when straights attack gays. She has a young lesbian and a young gay guy who are homeless living with her and a lover who is a cop. The film shows young people trying to find love and even a pair of gay haters who turn out to be gay themselves. A must see film for it´s contents and story line! Phillip

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Farewell, My Concubine
Original title: Ba wang bie ji
Director: Chen Kaiage
China : 1992/93 : 154 minutes : Gay/Bisexual : Historical Drama :
With: Leslie Cheung as Cheng Dieyi (Douzi),  Fengyi Zhang as  Duan Xiaolou (Shitou)
and Li Gong as Juxian:

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.


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Far From Sunset Boulevard
Director: Igor Minaiev
France/Russia: 2005: 130 mins:
With: Sergei Tsiss, Boris Nevzorov, Julia Svejakova.

" As the title suggests, the characters in Far From Sunset Boulevard are even more removed from Hollywood glitz than Norma Desmond., this is the story of the sacrifices one man makes for his art —and for love "
Konstantin Dalmatov (Sergei Tsiss) has returned to Moscow after a long journey in Hollywood with his lover, the famous director Alexander Mansourov (Boris Nevzorov).Konstantin wants to film grand musicals in his mother land - Set in Stalinist Russia - he needs to sign a paper declaring that he will reveal any information asked to be allowed to work or don’t sign and forever end the possibility of making movies, at the first moment he decides not to do it, but he the terror and pression is bigger than his thoughts and he decides to sing the paper that opens the successes door, to hide his homosexuality he marries his leading actress, Lidia Poliakova (Julia Svejakova) and become their life into a big farce. The movies do a parallel between the Salin Rules and the Hollywood Rules over the actors sexuality. Claudio


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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

Note: Four Academy Award® nominations including Best Actress (Julianne Moore ) and Best Original Screenplay!
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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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Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Das letzte Jahr (translation: The last year)
Director: Wolf Gremm.
Germany; 1982: 57 Mins:

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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Das filmische Weltgericht des Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany: 1995: 55 Mins:

This is another portrait of the life and works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Phillip


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Fashion Victim
Director: Rachel Tejada:

USA: 2003: 3 mins:

A short abut women who meet in a ladies room and what happens.Phillip

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Fast Forward
Alexis Van Stratum

Belgium: 2004: Short: 5 mins.:

In 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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F*STOP
Roberta Degnore

USA: 2004: short: 10 min:

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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Father of the Bride
USA: 1991:
With: Martin Short : Steve Martin:

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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Father of the Bride: Part II
With: Martin Short : Steve Martin:

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
(Ayaya)
China, 2003

Director: Cui Zi'en:

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 !
Phillip 


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Fellini´s Satyricon
[AKA: Satyricon]
Director: Federico Fellini
Italy / France : 1969 : 128 Mins. : Drama historical : Gay : Bisexual
With: Max Born as Giton, Hiram Keller as Ascyltus and Martin Potter as Encolpius:

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 impotent. The rest of the film we see him trying to find a cure.
Note: The film is loosely based on the "Satyricon" by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, who was in the court of Nero. Only pieces of the book survived and Fellini shows this by stopping sentences at the place where the words are missing form the original. The film is wonderful to see and one can only wish that Fellini had made more gay films rather than the other of his films where there are gay characters. Phillip

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Female Trouble
Director: John Waters
USA : (1975)
With: Divine as Dawn Davenport, Mink Stole as Taffy Davenport:

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 !)
This is the life story of Dawn Davenport, who goes from being a nice schoolgirl into a mass murderer who is crazy. Of course, all the blame is put on the parents who would not buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas ! She runs away from home and is raped . She becomes a single mother who becomes a glamorous model and a criminal. She is then ready to go to the electric chair....Phillip

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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



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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

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Few Things Mother Failed To Mention, A
(A.K.A.: Reflections On Growing Up Gay In The 50s)
USA: 2005: 65 mins:

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.

Phillip

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Fifth of July
Directors: Kirk Browning & Marshall W. Mason
USA : 1982 : Made for TV : 130 Mins : Drama : Main Gay Characters
With: Richard Thomas as Kenneth Talley Jr., Jeff Daniels as Jed Jenkins, Ken's Lover and Jonathan Hogan as John Landis, Ken's childhood friend:

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
Director: Eddie O'Flaherty
USA: 2005: 109 mins:
With: Eddie Jones as Marty Goldberg and J.P. Davis as Tommy Riley (also wrote the script)

This film kept my attention from the beginning to the end (maybe because the young boxer was sooooo cute and great to look at. But now on to the story line:
An older boxing trainer (who is overweight and in the closet) has anyway a reputation of being homosexual. A young really good looking boxer comes to his attention and he decides to train him to become a star boxer but he has to suppress his homosexual feelings towards the young man (who is straight). Then one day during a massage it becomes clear to the young boxer what the older trainer is and what he wants. What happens next to the two you have to see the film. Phillip
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Figli di Annibale  
Director: Davide Ferrario 
Italy: 1998: 90 mins: 
Story of a hostage taking and what happens when a gay cop is involved. Phillip
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Fingersmith
Director:   Aisling Walsh

UK:  2005: 180 mins: Lesbian lead characters
With Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins , Charles Dance, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans

The story of petty thiefs (called Fingersmiths) in England. There are two women who fall in love against all odds. It is written by the author Sarah Waters, who also wrote Tipping the Velvet. 
Phillip

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Film
[AKA: Fill 'em]
Director: Sky Gilbert
Canada : 1991 : 45 minutes : Gay : Drama :

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  
Director: Tanya Wexler
USA: 95 mins: Gay Main Characters: Aids:
With: John Benjamin Hickey, Wendy Makkena

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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Fire Island 
USA: Made for TV: 96 mins and was shown on Bravo Television Network:(out on DVD)

This TV series follows a group of men and women through their real lives including comings outs, AIDS, love sex and more.It includes an all male house and an all female house and their experiences and you will be competed to watch all 96 minutes of this fast pace show.

Note: Fire Island is an island in the Atlantic Ocean and is 32 miles long. It has very expensive homes and since it is only 90 minutes traveling from New York City it is a long time gay resort.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






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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


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Forces of Nature  
Director: Bronwen Hughes
USA: 1999: 195 mins:
Film is listed as Ben Affleck plays a to be bride groom and in order to get some money he does a strip in a gay bar. Have a peak just to see what everyone sees in him Phillip

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FirstOut
USA: 1998-2006:
This is a collection of 5 gay films with the following films:

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?

Phillip

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First Wives Club, The
With Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton:

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

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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


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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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Five Senses, The
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Canada: 2000: 96 mins
With: : Mary-Louise Parker, Philippe Volter, Gabrielle Rose, Marco Leonardi, Daniel MacIvor, Nadia Litz, Molly Parker, Amy Lee Miller, Brendan Fletcher, Pascale Bussieres:

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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Fixing Frank

USA: 2002: 103 mins:
Director: Michael Selditch
With Dan Butler as Dr. Arthur Apsey, Andrew Elvis Miller as Frank Johnston and Paul Provenza as Jonathan:
 
This film was first a play and then was filmed. Believe it or not there are still psychologists out there who try to convert gay men to becoming straight. This is the story of Frank Johnson who goes undercover to discover the real story about this practice (he is helped by his lover Jonathan to get this story written. The psychologist Dr. Arthur Apsey is the person he chooses to go to (to get the story).

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 versa!

Go see the film to see what you think. Phillip

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Flag Wars
Directors: Linda Goode Bryant & Laura Poitras
USA: 2003: 86 mins:
What happens when white gay men move into a black neighborhood. See the film to find out.  Phillip

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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 Gordon
USA 1974
Directed by Howard Ziehm & Michael Benveniste
With: Jason Williams

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! 

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Flavor of Corn, The
[Original title: Il Sapore del Grano]
Director: Gianni da Campo
Italy : 1991: 93 Mins : Drama Gay:
With: Lorenzo Lena as Lorenzo and Marco Mestriner as Duilio:


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

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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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Fleeing by night
(original title: Ye ben)
Director: Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin
Taiwan: 2000: 123 mins
With: : Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-Te Yin, Li-Jen Tai
China, 1930. Ing’er, the daughter of a theater owner, celebrates the return of her fiancé, Shao-dung, a cellist from America. The musician becomes fascinated by a performance of the Chinese opera Fleeing by night. Even though he does not understand the lyrics, he is enthralled by Lin Chung’s voice, the opera’s protagonist actor. Their friendship strengthens, while Shao-dung tries to blend the Chinese and the Western music he learned abroad. Simultaneously, Ing’er is torn between her love for both man. The boundary between the stage and the real world becomes ever more tenuous. Claudio   

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Flesh
[AKA: Andy Warhol's Flesh]
Director: Paul Morrissey
USA : 1968 : 90 Mins. Gay : hustler
With : Maurice Braddell as The Artist, Joe Dallesandro as Joe, Patti D'Arbanville, Geri Miller as Geri, Geraldine Smith as Joe's wife and Louis Walden as Joe's friend:

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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Flesh and the Devil
Director: Clarence Brown
USA : 1927 : 109 Mins B/W / Silent : Drama Romance
With: Greta Garbo as Felicitas von Kletzingk, John Gilbert as Leo von Sellenthin and Lars Hanson as Ulrich von Kletzingk:

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

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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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Flirting with Disaster
USA: 1996
Director: David O. Russell
With:  Richard Jenkins & Josh Brolin as Paul and Tony, Patricia Arquette:

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

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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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Flow 
Director: Quentin Lee
Canada: 1996: 80 mins:

A Chinese filmmaker who is 22 years old is interviewed from a friend behind the camera about being gay, his work and love life.Then we see 4 of his short films. Phillip

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Fluffer, The
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash West
USA - 2001 - 94 min
With Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxane Day

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
(AKA : F. est un salaud)
Director: Marcel Gisler
Switzerland: 1998: 91 mins:
With: Frédéric Andrau as Fögi and Vincent Branchet as Beni:
 
What a film. Beni is pretty 16 year old writes a love note to a rock star called Fögi and when he meets him he has his first sex and is in love for the first time. The rock star likes him but his world does not revolve around sex and love with the boy. They enter into a love – hate relationship and the boy has to give up more of his personality to be with the rocker. There are romantic scenes in the film and then follows the down spiril of the rocker who takes drugs (the boy gets also involved with drugs). One can think there will be unhappy ending but you have to see this entertaining gay film from Switzerland. Phillip
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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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For A Lost Soldier
[German title: Der verlorene Soldat]
[Original title: Voor een verloren soldaat]
Director: Roeland Kerbosch
The Netherlands : 1993: 90 minutes: Gay: Drama:
With: Jeroen Krabbé as Jeroen Boman (adult), Andrew Kelley as Walt Cook and Maarten Smit as Jeroen Boman (as the boy):

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

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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives 
Directors: Lynne Fernie & Aerlyn:Weissman 
Canada: 1992: 85 mins: 
Lesbians tell the their stories including the good and bad ones of life in the 1940´s, 50´s and the 60´s. Phillip

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For Love Or Money
2000
Contains gay character:Tony Blake as the Gay Man. Phillip

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Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde
Director: Henry Herbert
UK : 1976 : 120 minutes : Gay : Biography :

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

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Forces of Nature
Director:Bronwen Hughes
USA: 1999: 105 mins:
With:
Ben Affleck:

Film is listed as Ben Affleck plays a to be bride groom and in order to get some money he does a strip in a gay bar. Have a peak just to see what everyone sees in him ! Phillip


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Forever Mary
Director: Marco Risi
Italy : 1991: 100 minutes : Gay Transvestite : Drama :

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

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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  


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 Formula 17

(Original Title:Shi qi sui de tian kong)
Director: DJ Chen
Taiwan: 2004 - 93 mins: