Beautiful Thing (1996)

Beautiful Thing (1996)



Još jedan coming out film. Tinejđerska priča, kakvih je danas sve više. Heh u moje vrijeme toga baš i nije bilo.
Neču vam mnogo pisati o ovom filmu tim prije što odličan opis ovog filma možete naći ovdje.

BEAUTIFUL THING

Uloge: Glen Berry, Linda Henry i Scott Neal

Režija: Hettie Macdonald

Film Beautiful Thing ima osećaj za socijalne teme kao filmovi kasnijih 60-tih I radih 70-ih. Film istražuje reperkusije koje doživljavaju dvojica tinejdžera, koji su otkrili ljubav jedan prema drugome. Film poziva na toleranciju, koji pokazuje strah ali malo od homofobije koju ovi karakteri mogu doživeti u društvu.

Film se fokusira na Jamie-a, tinejdžera čija majka Sandra je menadžerka u jednom pabu, koji veruje da je netalentovan za sport i koji otkriva da je gej. Jamie, živi pored Ste-a, školskog sportskog heroja, čija je mračna tajna da ga pijani otac tuče svakog dana. Posle jednog takvog prebijanja, Sandra je uvela Ste-a u njihov stan i počinje da deli krevet sa Jamie-em. Ste je postao regularni posetilac, tako da se između njih razvila međusobna privlačnost.

Ste je zabrinut da njegov otac i brat ne saznaju za to, dok Jamie navaljuje da njihova veza bude otvorenija, tako da ga odvodi u lokalni gej bar. Svoju vezi kriju od Sandre sve do trenutka kada je krenula da ih prati do gej bara jer je dobila anonimnu dojavu.

Film je baziran na pozorišnoj predstavi Jonathan Harvey-a, koji je pisao i scenario za film koji se fokusira na njihova osećanja koja gaje jedan prema drugome i koja koriste kao odbranu od svih aspekata netolerancije koje doživljavaju.

Ovo je prvi film Hettie Macdonald sa veoma dobrom glumom Geln Berry-a (Jamie), Scott Neal-a (Ste) i Linde Henry (Sandru). Ben Daniels se pojavljuje kao Sandrin zanimljivi ljubavnik, koji joj preporučuje da se ne obraća ženama kao da su ptice jer takve reči joj oduzimaju moć. Film Beuatiful Thing uspeva da pokaže realni strah s kojim su suočeni gej tinejdžeri, iako je rešavanje problema prikazano u jednom optimističkom maniru.

http://gaythemedmovies.blog.hr/2008/01/1623994742/beautiful-thing.html

Film je lagan za gledanje i slobodno ga možete pogleati čak i u krugu familije. Za neke roditelje bi bio izuzetno poučan.

1996, 90 min
Country: Great Britain
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Cast: Linda Henry, Glen Barry, Scott Neal, Tameka Empson
Director: Hettie MacDonald
Screenwriter: Jonathan Harvey

English:

REVIEW
This tender story of two teenager's sexual coming of age in a working-class development in London is an inspiring, tender, emotional tale. Jamie is a reserved teen, close to his pub manager mom, who prefers old Hollywood musicals to sports. His friendship with his hunky neighbor Ste, a fellow student who suffers through a troubled family life, soon develops into a sexual and eventually a loving relationship. How the two boys tentatively handle their nascent sexual drives and how it affects their family and friends is handled in both a fresh and surprisingly upbeat fashion. A wonderful comedy-drama and possibly the best coming out film to date.

The 24th day (2004) - repost

The 24th day (2004)

Za ovaj film sam uradio repost jer sam dodao nove linkove! :)

Ovo je zaista dobar film ! Zgodni kuvar Tom zavede i dovodi u kuću promiskuitetnog Dana. Zarobljava ga, veže za stolicu i kaže mu da je od njega prije 5 godina dobio virus HIV-a. Dan se ne sijeća da je bio sa njim. Malo po malo prisjeća se da su bili pijani jedne noći i da mu je rekao
da je siguran i bezbjedan za sex.
Tom mu onako vezanom vadi uzorak krvi i daje na analizu. Ako test bude negativan pustiće ga, a ako bude pozitivan ubiće ga.
Vezani Dan i Tom provode zajedno 24 sata dok čekaju rezultate testa. Pričaju, upoznavaju jedan drugog......


O ovom filmu proćitajte na
http://gaythemedmovies.blog.hr/2007/10/1623327238/the-24th-day.html




Director: Tony Piccirillo
Writer: Tony Piccirillo (play)
Genre: Thriller
Tagline: Your next lie may be your last.
Plot Outline: Tom (Speedman) and Dan's (Marsden) one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
Plot Keywords: Gay / AIDS / Blood Test / Captive / Chef
Cast:

James Marsden... Dan
Scott Speedman... Tom

Runtime: 92 min / USA:96 min (DVD)
Country: USA
Language: English
Filming Locations: Philadelphia Civic Center - 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


Continuity: Whenever Dan has tape around his head (covering his mouth), it is alternately under his right ear or over it (depending on the angle).

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Wikipedia:

The 24th Day is a 2004 film starring Scott Speedman and James Marsden. The film is based on a play of the same name, written by Tony Piccirillo; he also directed the film.
Tom (Speedman) and Dan (Marsden) meet in a bar and then proceed to Tom's apartment together. While there, Dan realizes that he had been in that same apartment before. Five years earlier, Dan and Tom had had a one night stand there. According to Tom, that encounter with Dan was his first and only homosexual experience. Some years later, Tom's wife is found to be HIV positive. Despondent after receiving this diagnosis from her doctor, Tom's wife drives through a red traffic light and is killed in an ensuing collision. Subsequent to these events, medical tests reveal that Tom himself is also HIV positive. Tom blames himself for passing the HIV virus on to his wife and, in turn, he blames Dan for passing the virus on to him. Reasoning that Dan ultimately is to blame for his wife's death, Tom devises a plan to exact revenge. He holds Dan hostage and draws blood from him in order to conduct a test to determine Dan's HIV status. If Dan's test results are positive for the HIV virus, Tom vows to kill Dan. If the results are negative, Tom agrees to release Dan unharmed. In the end, Tom returns to the apartment and lets Dan go. As Dan is leaving Tom asks him when was the last time he was tested? A few moments later he reveals that Dan's test was in fact positive. He decided to let Dan go because he realized that his positive status was the result of his choices and he couldn't blame it on anyone else. The scene fades out with Dan standing there in shock and Tom resigned to what lies ahead.

The Celluloid Closet (1995)

The Celluloid Closet (1995)


Sinoć sam do kasno ostao budan gledajući ovaj dokumentarni film. Zaista je fascinirajuće gledati ovaj istorijat LGBT Hollywoodskih filmova. Počev od onih starih filmova sa Chaplinom pa do novijih ostvarenja sa Tom Hanksom i Antonom Banderasom. Dosta filmova koji su u kratkim crtama opisani u ovom dokumentarcu se nalaze i u ovom blogu.

Ovaj sjajan prikaz Gay populacije kroz filmska ostvarenja je nastao na osnovu istoimene knjige Vita Russoa, koji je vršio istraživanje o tome kako je prikazivana gay populacija kroz filmsku umjetnost od 1890. do 1980. i kako je to uticalo na društvo u cjelini. Knjiga je objavljena 1981. god.


Dugo vremena ,a vrlo često i dan danas homoseksualnost je u filmovima prikazivana na tri načina: kao nešto smiješno, kao nešto što treba žaliti ili nešto čega se treba bojati.
I gdje ste vi tu? U kojoj grupi? :)
Do 60-tih godina, homoseksualnost je vrlo bojažljivo i skriveno prikazivana, bez nekih direktnih i očiglednih prikaza ljubavi prema istome polu. Ako bi se neko i usudio eksplicitnije prikazati neku scenu bio bi trenutno osuđen kao perverznjak , jer se gay love tako i tretirala.
Tek nakon seksualne revolucije 60-tih i 70-tih godina Hollywood se odvažio da eksplicitnije prikaže ovu do tada mračnu stranu ljudske psihe. Depresivni, psihotični ili manijakalni pederi su do tada bili najčešće upotrebljavani , ako se baš moralo prikazati homoseksualnost. Prvi pederi koji su počeli da mjenjaju sliku o njima su bili su oni iz 'The Boys In the Band' (1970), a danas mislim da nema nikoga is generacije 60-tih godina da nije čuo za film "Cabaret" (1972) koji i dan danas volim pogledati.
Od tada pa do današnjih danaje kroz Hollywood protutnjalo gomila pedera, što u filmovima, što u serijama.
Većina pedera je zasigurno odgledala film Cruising (1980) sa Al Pacinom u glavnoj ulozi koji je u americi izazvao burne proteste gay zajednice jer je pedere prikazao kao manijake i ubice.
Interesantno je vidjeti scene iz gomile gay filmova, koji homoseksualnu ljubav prikazuju kao nešto sasvim ljudski, sa puno emocija.
Na žalost pojavom AIDS-a nastaje razdoblje kada je većina pederskih filmova pravljena sa srceparajućim scenama kao ona sa Tom Hanksom i Banderasom u Philadelphiji.

Nadalje će te vidjeti na koji način se Hollywood izborio sa homofobijom u američkom društvu.


Directors: Rob Epstei, Jeffrey Friedman
Writers: Vito Russo (book),Rob Epstein (story)
Release Date: 15 March 1996 (USA)
Genre: Documentary / History
Plot Outline: A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Plot Keywords: Lesbianism / Female Nudity / Compilation / Historical / Homophobia
Awards: Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations

Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)

* Lily Tomlin (narrator)
* Tony Curtis
* Susie Bright
* Arthur Laurents
* Armistead Maupin
* Whoopi Goldberg
* Jan Oxenberg
* Harvey Fierstein
* Quentin Crisp
* Richard Dyer
* Jay Presson Allen
* Mrs. Gustav Ketterer
* Gore Vidal
* Will H. Hays
* Farley Granger
* Paul Rudnick
* Shirley MacLaine
* Barry Sandler
* Mart Crowley
* Antonio Fargas
* Tom Hanks
* Ron Nyswaner
* Daniel Melnick
* Harry Hamlin
* John Schlesinger
* Susan Sarandon

Also Known As: Celluloid Closet (France)
Gefangen in der Traumfabrik (Germany)

Runtime: 102 min
Country: France / UK / Germany / USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White / Color




The Celluloid Closet (1995) is a documentary film directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. The film is based on the 1981 (revised 1987) book of the same name written by Vito Russo, and on previous lecture and film clip presentations given in person by Russo 1972-82. Russo researched the history of how motion pictures, especially Hollywood films, had portrayed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters. It was given a limited release in select theatres, including the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in April 1996, and then shown on cable channel HBO.

The documentary interviews various men and women connected to the Hollywood industry to comment on various film clips and their own personal experiences with the treatment of LGBT characters in film. From the sissy characters, to the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code, the coded gay characters and cruel stereotypes to the progress made in the early 1990s.

Vito Russo wanted his book to be transformed into a documentary film and helped out on the project until he died in 1990. Some critics of the documentary noted that it was less political than the book and ended on a more positive note. However, Russo had wanted the documentary to be entertaining and to reflect the positive changes that had occurred up to 1990.

Russo was one of the first people to persuade gay and straight people to examine the role that popular culture plays in shaping our attitudes about sexual orientation and gender identity.[citation needed] It started a genre of research that examines how movies, television shows, comic books, and video and computer games depict LGBT people.

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) gives an award called the Vito Russo Award to openly gay or lesbian people within the Hollywood film industry who advance the cause of fighting homophobia.

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

Director: Paul Bogart 
Writers: Harvey Fierstein (play),
Harvey Fierstein
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: USA 
Language: English 
Duration: 120 min
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick and Harvey Fierstein

Torch Song Trilogy je prvi film sa gay tematikom koji sam gledao. Podsjetio me na ta vremena 87-88. godine.
Odkad znam za sebe živim i krećem se u nazovi macho društvu. Takav mi je i posao.Feminiziranost naprosto nije dio mene niti okruženja u kojem živim. A u mom slučaju zbog straha da me neko ne "provali" uvjek sam morao biti i jači i obrazovaniji i naravno mnogo muškiji nego drugi. Zato me mnogi pederi startuju i nadaju se da ću ih dobro "opaliti". Na njihovu žalost rijetko se dešava da ja to zaista i želim.
Jedno je spoljašni izgled , a sasvim drugo ono što želimo.
A u ovoj priči je nešto sasvim obrnuto. Arnold je feminizirani lik koji zna šta hoće i to ne krije. Poštujem taj stav, a da li je teže na moj način ili njegov prosudite sami. U svakom slučaju niti je Arnold veći muškarac od mene , niti ja od njega. Obadvojica smo jaki, uporni, nepokolebljivi i istrajni, bez obzira što smo izgledomi ponašanje potpuno drugačiji.

Ovaj film je nastao na osnovu istoimene Brodwayske predstave Harvey Fiersteina, dobitnika prestižne Pulitzerove nagrade za stvaralaštvo na daskama koje živoz znače. Nakon velikog uspjeha ovog izvanrednog komada, napisao je scenario za ovaj film, snimljen 1986. godine. Film je  autobiografskog karaktera oslikanog kroz život Arnold Beckoffa.
Arnold Beckoff, židov, homoseksualac, tranvestit, koji zarađuje u kabareu kao Queer dama hrapavog glasa je glavni lik ovog filma. Njegovi scenski nastupi su autentični upravo zbog glasa koji se pamti zauvijek. Sam Harvey Fierstein kojeg predstavlja glavni lik ovog filma za svoj glas kaže: “Ja mislim da je svaki glas 30% pjevanje i 70% hrapavost – kod mene je to 95%. I zaista jeste, mozda čak i 98%.” Arnold upoznaje Ed-a sa kojim saznaje šta je to istinska prva ljubav. Principjelan kakav je bio, poštujući samog sebe od Ed-a zahtijeva da ne skriva njihovu vezu. Ed, biseksualac, ne može da pređe preko tradicionalnih manira koji su u njemu duboko ukorijenjeni.
Arnold nastavlja život bez Ed-a koji se nakon toga oženi. Upoznaje Alana, drugu iskrenu ljubav. Prije nego su započeli vezu rekao je Alanu. Živjećemo ako možeš da ispuniš moja pravila, prvo želim da imam dijete, drugo ako neko pita…( ne želim da sakrivamo našu vezu.) Godinu dana kasnije podnose zahtjev za usvajanje. Prije negoli li socijalna služba dovede na starateljstvo 15-godišnjeg Davida, Alan pogiba u uličnoj tuči.
Da ne prepričavam film dalje, ponešto treba i sami da odgledate.
Film je briljantno napravljen, sa odličnom pričom, glumom, muzikom… Geldajući ga prožimale su me različite emocije,, oduševljenje, smijeh, tuga, zebnja i samo mogu zamisliti reakcije publike na Brodwayu ili u kino dvoranama dok se ovaj film prikazivao.
Nakon ovog kultnog filma, koji je izazvao pravu malu kulturnu revoluciju u gay zajednici New Yorka, odnos društva prema ljudima istospolne orjentacije se počeo brže mjenjati.

http://www.threemoviebuffs.com/review/torch-song-trilogy

In 1988 Harvey Fierstein brought his multiple Tony winning, hit Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy to the big screen. He adapted the screenplay and recreated the role of female impersonator and hopeless romantic Arnold Beckoff. I was a 21 year old gay man when I first saw this movie and it had a profound effect on me. I remember walking out of the theater with a newfound sense of belonging.

The story is set in New York City during the golden age of modern gay culture, those liberating years between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the advent of the AIDS epidemic in 1981. As the title suggests the story takes place in three acts.

After a brief opening scene where we see a young Arnold playing dress-up in his mother’s closet in 1952 Brooklyn, the story proper begins with Arnold in his dressing room making up for a show in 1971. He delivers a monologue about love directly to the camera, and throughout the movie returns to this cinematic gimmick.

Later that same night Arnold gets picked up at a bar and begins dating Ed, a self-proclaimed bi-sexual. This prompts one of his fellow drag queens to remark, “Just once I’d like to see a bi-sexual that lives with a man and sneaks out to see his girlfriend on the side.”

During the first act we meet Arnold’s disapproving mother (Anne Bancroft playing the role Estelle Getty originated onstage but since Getty was busy playing Sophia on television’s The Golden Girls she was unable to be in the film) and watch as his relationship with Ed goes through several ups and downs. It ends with Ed’s big emotional moment in Arnold’s dressing room.

In act two we meet Alan (played by Matthew Broderick who had originated the role of David in the play). He is a gorgeous young model that falls for Arnold one night after an altercation at the club where Arnold performs. Act two ends on a tragic note.

The third act takes place in 1980 and deals with Arnold’s relationship with David, a troubled gay teenager living with Arnold and whom Arnold hopes to adopt. It culminates with Arnold’s big confrontation with his mother and hints at a possible reconciliation with Ed.

Torch Song Trilogy moves effortlessly between comedy and drama. In the third act David gets sent home from school for fighting. When Arnold asks him what he was fighting about he replies, “He called me a douche bag, so I slugged him.” “How 50’s.” Arnold quips back. Then just a few moments later Arnold and his mother have a dramatic argument where she says, “You shut me out of your life and then blamed me for not being there.”

In subject matter this movie was ahead of its time. Arnold and Alan discuss wanting to get married and raising children and the topic of gay adoption is broached. It also shone a light on gay bashing and offered many straight people their first glimpse into the gay urban subculture (in fact I saw this movie with my brother Eric and he made a similar comment as we were leaving the theater). Drag icon Charles Pierce gets to do his famous Mae West and Bette Davis impersonations.

The cast is excellent. Brian Kerwin is great as Ed and Eddie Castrodad gets a few good scenes as David. Matthew Broderick seems a bit tentative playing Alan though. Anne Bancroft steals her scenes as Arnold’s very Jewish mother. Her best moment takes place at a cemetery where she and Arnold have yet another emotional outburst.

Harvey Fierstein, although not a movie star, makes Arnold a likable average guy and a rather unique leading man. He was the character I identified the most with when I first saw this movie. Given his physical appearance the story is a bit of a fantasy in the sense that he somehow gets two very attractive men to fall in love with him. But then it is his movie so why not?

Torch Song Trilogy was groundbreaking in 1988 and retains its relevance and entertainment value in 2011.

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