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AyaanpimTheo van Gogh
Home alone's Macaulay Culkin (at the right) matured well
Angels in America
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise's most spectacular collaboration
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Ewan McGregor as pop loveduo Brian Slade (bowie?) and Curt Wilde (Iggy pop?) Brian Slade Curt Wilde
Still think it was one of the most impressive movies I ever saw.
"LUDWIG -Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König" (1972)
on Hans Jürgen Syberberg's website
you can find many clips from his 2 hour + long film about Ludwig (click on stills below the poster),
set entirely as a theaterplay, with extensive pieces of Wagner to dream away on
The Grail, his film about Hitler is there in full and english, 411 minits!
also great music!
Dean (David Sutcliffe) and Marcos (Leonardo Brzezicki) bask in Testosterone afterglow
I do admire director Q.Allan Brocka for creating the most compelling depiction of 2 guys,
one being straight, having sex in a movie, sofar!
He only shows their faces during the entire 12 minit scene, and when it's done we get to see the boys in full.
It's just one of those nice little points the guys make in this movie, like:
"hey, we are actually quite proud of this scene" being homo and/or playing homo and showing your bits should not harm an actor's carreer in the 21st century but enhance it,
just like Ewan McGregor did in Velvet Goldmine, a century earlier.
the first love scene in une question d'amour
daring, cruising, showering
this movie was in my opinion the most oscar worthy of 2005, not BBM the first fuckscene in sommersturm; cannot find a better image, just yet
but below right is this scene in vid
must add at least 1 morepic of the guy playing the straigh boy
have finally found the selfsuck scenes from shortbus
they are on the right side here we just have these official promo stills
dwh homo movie of the year
After figuring out for a long time how high it should be listed, I entered it at 15 just now. But another gay movie is a prime candidate for our annual outside (eh, open air, say canalboats) homomovie in the week we welcome the new students to Delft. Granted, I have seen more touching movies recently, like Shortbus. Also more boring ones, like Brokeback. But this is a really funny comedy that does not shy away from the sickest prejudices a middle American moron, or a Tukker (east of the Netherlands, farmers mostly) could have. But they do it very cleverly, with great actors and with profound knowledge of all the achilles heels of our subculture. Yes shallow, self degrading, it's us! Still it shows we've come a long way since "Boys in the Band", the last time this was attempted. Soundtrack is pretty good too, with a title tune by Nancy Sinatra: it could have been a John Waters film! Also it has real porn stars we all know, when the script calls for them. Gongratulations to Falcon for lending out their top stars for this purpose!
It shows they can act, as long as they act not too far away from home turf; so much nicer then "gay for pay", still the obvious choice in Hollywood. Which brings me to the most surprising cameo appearance: Graham Norton, the BBC's supreme queen and saturday familyshow host!
Nowadays mr. John Waters has to make do with 3rd rate stars like John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp.
At the end let me come back to the hottest man alive. For a long time the ultimate attitude queen Rupert Everett held that position in my book.But now the trophee sadly goes over to a guy who is not gay. Well, he's not straight either; he's OMNIsexual and a GOD! Yes, it's Jonathan Rhys Meyers. YEAAAAAHHH (scream this out like Kermit the Frog announces his star guests)
this gem from 1964 about awakening sexuality on a french Jesuit boarding school resulting in a Romeo and Juliet inspired suicide, is fully online with englisch subtitles starting here.
(I started my education at a Jesuit school in Delft, NL, but then the sixties broke out and when I left almost all the priests were gone. Still have fond memories of their great teaching qualities; they awoke my continuing interest in English, drawing and history)
No officially nothing was ever said about it.
It would be something for the memoires of Fassbinder, but sadly he is dead too, so we'll never know.
Brad Davis was straight and married, but also an example of method acting.
His brutal portrayal of an imprisoned drugdealer in Turkey was terribly realistic in Midnight Express
and so was the rape scene with the Nono caracter in Querelle. When I saw that I concluded:
this is not acting, he really is getting fucked, which in my mind became
even more so when a few years later it was announced he had aids.
Of course I cannot say he got it from this guy. but it is not impossible
and adds to the power and conviction of his method acting
The all time most impressive queer movies list
I'm just soooo happy that weve turned our local gay communitycenter into this movietheater every wednesdaynight playing all these superb products. from what I've seen over there the past 10 years I first set up a TOP 3 èver movielist, which quickly grew into a top10 and it couldn't stop there, as more and more movies deserve a place:
Submission by Theo van Gogh and Ajaan Hirshi Ali , because the fight with neo religious terrorists is not over yet (0)
0605 by Theo van Gogh about the Pim assasination, also, because the fight with neo conservative terrorists is not over (0)
Brazil by Terry Gilliam, because the fight with neo religious terrorists, christian burocracy and power thirst is just starting (0)
Velvet Goldmine, 1998
With all time hero Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ewan McGregor most incredible soundtrack with: Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Venus in Furs (Radiohead & Thom York), Pulp, T-Rex, Placebo, Cockney Rebel
Pink Narcissus by John Bidgood, 1971 the most revolutionary US queer movie pioneer
Line of Beauty, superb BBC series based on Allan Hollinghurst's masterpiece, finally sets the original version of Brideshead in the shade.
Total Eclipse DiCaprio's best work, (with Basketbal diaries)
Napola would have won oscars if it was a US movie: beautifully shot, great passions and drama at a Nazi elite school
Sordid Lives, this one should have won oscars instead of brokeback: just as good as "come back to the five and dime Jimmy Dean", possible dwh OW film for 2009?
Simon Dutch feelgood movie, be it about euthanasia!
Querelle with the much missed hunk Brad Davis
if he had not let himself get fucked in the ass for real in this film he could possibly still be alive today
Die Manns, ein Jahrhundertroman German tv miniseries; exquisite.
Skinflick and Hustler White by BlaB love that man.
Kinky boots, Superb UK production, shows you should never blaim others for your own insecurities, and I know, I'm one likely to do just that!
and some gurlie thingies:
Turning point Shirley McLaine, Ann Bancroft and Baryshnikov
Sunday Bloody Sunday and Women in Love with the nude fight scene and amazing Glenda Jackson
The unsurpassed Moulin Rouge, also a dwh owee film
Cabaret with Liza when she could sing
The original Wizz with her mum
Miss Julie in Victor Victoria, The sound of Music, Mary Poppins
now i'm at it: Sissie, all 3 of the series, with adorable Romy Schneider
Sorry if it all got a bit much for you to comprehend, my mind boggles too, the age of dementia is creeping in, ever faster . . .
The numbers are the remains of what was my top 3, 5, 10
and then I havn't even included that great tv series on the roman emperors with Derek Jacobi or that other BBC project, Brideshead Revisited, The original UK Queer as Folk, or just as good but quite different, the USA version, or queen of the desert,
Private Idaho, Bruce Weber's Broken noses, and Rebel without a cause. Not included is THAT movie, the oscar winning one, I felt is was tedious and a typically boring US situation, only the music was real good! Here's a link to some great alternative writing about it . . .
One that features a lead in my nr 1 film cannot be bad, I presume: Bend it lkike beckham.
Plus one that features a lead in my nr 2 film cannot be bad, I presume: I love you Phillip Morris.
Venus in Furs , the band put together especially for Velvet Goldmine.
Band members are:
Thom Yorke
Paul Kimble
Jon Greenwood
Bernard Butler
Andy Mackay
Some songs are sung by Jonathan Rhys Meyers or Ewan Mc Gregor, who play the main characters in the film.
Thom Yorke is in normal life the singer of Radiohead. In Venus in Furs he doesn't use his falsetto like he usually does, which is a nice change (he turns out to have a very beautiful voice) and makes him hard to recognize.
Paul Kimble used to be bass player for Grant Lee Buffalo (who also appear on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack by the way), but seems to have gone solo.
Jon Greenwood is Radiohead's guitar player and general idiotic noise maker.
Bernard Butler used to be guitar player for Suede but has since embarked on a solo career.
Andy Mackay was saxophone player and founder member of Roxy Music.
You thought I forgot about him in the list,: au contraire !
I am too big a fan of Oscar Wilde, and an even bigger fan of Stephen Fry whotook on this role with all the respect it deserves, and the two are stuningly alike. Jude Law as Bosie is also very well acted out, and I found myself immersed in tears and laughter, simultaneously.
This is a must buy for anyone who loves literature, who's been inlove and hated for it, and anyone who's basically human. James Wilby and Rupert Graves kiss in 'Maurice' Bobby Kendall lead in Pink Narcissus
if you don't feel a cynical look at gay mariarge id anti homo: I luved it!
again but clickable: Hans Jürgen Syberberg's website
For fanatics like me, here is a third film about Ludwig: Ludwig 1881, about his trip with love / actor Joseph Kainz through the swiss alps and lakes. The most amazing thing is that Helmut Berger plays the king again, 20 years after he did it for Visconti.
3 women could have gotten an oscar for Sordid of which the best one was male Leslie Jordan ->
Interview with Pierre Pauquet, scenario writer of question d'amour:
Monchoix.net : Pouvez vous faire le point sur vos projets en cours ?
Pierre Pauquet : Je travaille sur 2 projets : Un roman : L’histoire se déroule à Hyères pendant la période D’occupation italienne. L’histoire est basée sur des souvenirs de familles. Le roman raconte une histoire d’amour qui met en scène un personnage Homosexuel : Stephan Weig. (Juif autrichien) Ce personnage lutte désespérément contre l’incompréhension. Le personnage se suicide, pour lui cette issue apparaît comme un acte de défense face à l’oppression. Et un scénario : Dans une petite ville se déroule une histoire d’amour. Il s’agit là d’un sujet un peu plus sérieux car l’histoire relate l’alliance du maire avec le FN. Le prochain roman sera homo sensible. Ma sensibilité homosexuelle est souvent retranscrite dans tous ce que je fais.
M.n : Vous avez écrit le scénario d’une histoire d’amour "banal" entre 2 personnes, l’originalité du film c’est qu’il s’agit d’homosexuels. Pensez-vous que cette histoire est banale ?
P.P : C’est une histoire banale car c’est une histoire d’amour et l’amour est universel. L’histoire se passe il y a 30 ans, il aujourd’hui le problème se pose encore. Il y a eu peu d’évolution. Monchoix.net : Pensez vous aujourd’hui que les Homosexuels privilégient les relations "coupe vent", les relations "Kleenex" ? P.P : On ne prend plus le temps, le temps de la séduction est important, c’est beau. Il y a 30 ans les relations"Kleenex " existaient déjà.
M.n : Quelles sont les limites de l’autobiographie ?
P.P : Aucune censure au niveau du scénario. Toute l’équipe était sur la même longueur d’onde. Nous avons travaillé main dans la main. Ils savaient tous que l’on faisait tous le même film.
M.n : Vous êtes Laurent ou Cédric ?
P.P : Laurent.
M.n : que pensez vous de Laurent qui ne veut pas faire son coming-out. Pensez vous que le coming-out est nécessaire ?
P.P : Le coming-out est un moment extrêmement difficile. Laurent doit annoncer à ses parents qu’il est gay. Pour lui c’est impossible de le faire car il ne voulait pas leur faire de mal, car les liens avec ses parents sont très forts. Il y a des situations ou le coming out est difficile. Mais il doit être fait.
M.n : Les acteurs ont ils éprouvé des difficultés à jouer des personnages homosexuels ?
P.P : A aucun moment, ils ne se sont posés aucunes questions ;Ils en ont même fait plus.
M.n : Que pensez vous de la Façon dont est abordée l’homosexualité à la télévision ?
P.P : La chaîne a reçu plain de projets avec des personnages Gay comme personnage principal. Ils ont même étaient débordé de projets.
M.n : Pensez vous que "juste une question d’amour" sera à nouveau rediffusé ?.
P.P : Oui, la chaîne a acheté 3 rediffusions du Film.
M.n : Que vous évoque ces deux mots : "Homosexualité et Bonheur" ?
P.P : On pourrait arriver à être heureux. Être heureux en étant homosexuel est un combat de tout les jours. Nous devons inventer une vie à deux. Je dis inventer car on n’ a pas de référence. Avec mon compagnon au bout de 30 ans on se découvre et on invente tout les jours .
M.n : Encore une question thématique... Que pensez vous de ses deux mots "homosexualité et patience" ?
P.P : La patience ça va un moment et après on peu plus. Si on ne peut plus sortir, que l’on est obligé de se cacher. A partir du moment ou on veut construire quelque chose de solide.
M.n : Homosexualité et marginalité ? Cela vous inspire quoi ?
P.P : je ne suis pas contre la marginalité. Je ne veux pas que l’on soit anodin. Nous sommes différents.
M.n : Que pensez vous de la solitude qui enferme l’homosexuel ?
P.P : Je connais seulement la solitude de l’écriture. C’est dommage que les petites villes ne disposent pas de structure pour permette aux homosexuels de se rencontrer et ainsi éviter l’isolement et la solitude.
M.n :Voyez vous une question à laquelle vous refuserez de répondre ?
P.P : Aucune.
M.n : Avez des remarques ou un message à faire passer ?
P.P : Vivre à deux c’est parfois difficile car il y a trop de tentations. On peut facilement se quitter. A deux on peut tout affronter, le fait d’être gay nous donne une espèce de liberté car on n’est pas limiter par des symboles, des valeurs. Nous pouvons tout dépasser et vivre et continuer à dialoguer avec la même personne toute une vie.
Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a corrupt building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Therefor, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his friends begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway (L.I.E.). Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.
I had the theme music of Napola autoplay here, which accounted for 10 % of all the datatraffic of this site, which is a bit rediculous! so now it only remains a download
the same goes for the finale music of L.I.E.:by Donovan.
(download with right mouseclick)
wanna see the lovescene of the Sommersturm itself?
here is the original theme music, by BRD gay group Rosenstolz. (Hey, it's a German film! it's not helped by a supersweet US girly-singer)
a sweet scene from one of the earliest gay feelgood movies, and dwh owee film Beautiful thing:
with a great song behind it (though not by the Mamas and Papas)
ok, some mamma's and pappa's too then:
and now for the GRAND finale: these opening scenes from shortbus were the reason I just had to move it up to the top position of my list. but not really It also is a very sweet and optimistic movie about our culture in the new century thanx Tulipboy
Cut Sleeve Boy, too sweet and romantic for my liking, but funny and warm, and since I have a Chinese tennant of late, I include some pix
Ultimate queer countermovie hero, John Waters: The main star of his first 5 films (after which he died): Divine Do see the nr. 1 movie in my list,
if you have not yet, where he plays the gayest popstar èver
Un amour à taire is a beautifully made film that continuously holds you in an almost strangling grip: you know it leads to a horrifying end but you cannot look away. It's about gay lovers, a jewish girl living in hiding, jealousy and betrayal that leads to a horrifying unavoidable end: the deportation of the main caracter to a concentration camp (beware, this clip is most disturbing) all the time cut throught with the agonizingly gay song je chante by charles trenet.
here's a scrap of the first love from the nr.10 movie (last time I looked) on my list:
Maurice, the breathtakingly beautful movie adaption of the 100 year old A.M.Forster book
played by James Wilby and Hugh Grant
years later, after that love got sour Maurice finds a new love played by Rupert Graves:
sooo beautiful:
Somewhere over here left you should be able to find my hommage to Bruce LaBruce
who's at nr.38 of the list, but I just can't fit all his work in there
And now, for something completely different:
the non gay queer movie list:
sweet charity
west side story
sunday, bloody sunday
the turning point
providence
sound of music
all that jazz
new york, new york
the old wizz(ard of ozz)
sissie
cabaret
rebel without a cause (and the 2 other James Dean movies)
mary poppins
Life of Brian
Irma La Douche
Some like it hot
The gay divorcee (first 12 Inch [17 mins] dancetune)
fred astaire and ginger rogers deserve a place here anyway
Billy Elliot, dwh owee film
Dr. Zjivago
If
Amadeus
Giornata Particolare
Salo, Edipo Re both by Pasolini
Satiricon by Frederico Fellini
ET
Performance (memo from turner)
La dolce vita
novecento
the movies of Peter Greenaway
I posed nude as an extra in Prospero's Books with John Gielgud in 1990 and I fucked on the train going there with Bernardo, now owner of Argos Amsterdam; good memories, indeed !
Priscilla, queen of the desert dwh owee film ?
Milk was much more deserving of an oscar then the dragging on sanatised cowboy romance that got so many.
Mr Black remains a hero, who does not need surreal denial mode and stayed honest and fair about his bare experiences.
a movie about the most despicable people on the globe
not counting the 40 - 45 period:
colin firth shines again:
have you seen maked civil servant?
this one is even sharper :
"If you at first don't succeed...then failure may be your style."
"Never try to keep? up with the Joneses...drag them down to your level:
it's cheaper"
James Wilby and Rupert Graves kiss in 'Maurice'
