Showing posts with label Year:1988. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year:1988. Show all posts

05 May 2008

No Se Lo Digas A Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) 1998


No Se Lo Digas A Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) 1998

Ova klasična pederska coming out priča, ispričana prema istoimenoj noveli Peruanskog pisca Jaime Baylya će vam oduzeti skoro 2 sata vremena, a da to nećeti ni primjetiti.
Iako je smještena u ambijentu južno američke države Peruu, lako je prepoznatljiva u bilo kojem našem većem gradu. U homofobičnoj sredini, strogih tradicionalističkih svjetonadzora biti peder je gore nego biti narkoman ili lopov.
Za mladog Joaquina biti peder predstavlja noćnu moru i grešku prirode. Još kao dječak je bezspješno pokušavao da zadovolji svoju pedersku znatiželju pri čemu je postiđen samog sebe izgovorio čuvenu rečenicu "molim te nemoj nikome reći" ili kako bi rekli ljudi iz južne srbije "Živ ti majka nemoj na nikoga da kažeš!"
Joaquim je inače intelegentam mladić, uzoran učenik, student, ponos svoje pobožne majke, ali u isto vrijeme sramota za svog oca jer nedovoljno iskazivanje muškosti ga navodi na sumlju da mu je sin bolesni peder. Na njegov 18 rođendan ga vodi kod prostitutke u nadi da će u njemu probuditi "pravog muškarca"
Srećom Joaquim odlazi na studije te se udaljava od kuće. Svjestan svoje "bolesti" pokušava se izliječiti stvarajući vezu sa lijepom Alejandrom kojoj povjeri da voli i muškarce. Naivna Alejandra to protumači kao neku traumu iz djetinjstva, misleći da će ga njena ljubav prema njemu izliječiti.
I sve bi to bilo lijepo da se nesretni Joaquim ne zaljubi u momka njene prijateljice sa kojim uspjeva ostvariti intimnost kakvu je oduvijek želio.
Traumu izaziva saznanje da je ta veza moguća samo dok glumi uzornog str8 momka.
U urbanoj sredini nesretni i napaćeni Joaquin se prepušta kokainu i piću, pa čak i prostituciji. Njegov porodični coming out izgleda ovako:
Otac: "Ti si pijan!"
Joaquin: "Ja sam pijan i nadrogiran , ali to me ne čini manje pederom."
Sve u svemu opet ga na pravi put izvlači njegova , sad već bivša cura , te završava studije a na svojoj inaguraciji ponovo sreće momka zbog kojeg je toliko propatio!
Sad već zna da biti uspješan u društvu znači biti savršen glumac. Biti savršen str8 lik u javnosti , a pička u krevetu! Pa kome se sviđa recept, neka ga primjeni!
U donjem prilogu je i titl engleskom jeziku!

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi
Writers: Jaime Bayly (novel), Giovanna Pollarolo (writer)
Release Date: 16 July 1998 (Peru)
Genre: Comedy Drama
Plot Keywords: Bisexuality Cocaine College Homosexual Peru


Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)
Santiago Magill ... Joaquín Camino
Christian Meier ... Gonzalo
Lucía Jiménez ... Alejandra
Giovanni Ciccia ... Alfonso
Vanessa Robbiano ... Prostitute
Carlos Fuentes ... Gerardo
Gianfranco Brero ... University Professor
Carlos Tuccio ... Sacerdote Confesor
Anibal Zamoa ... Transvestite
Emilran Cossío ... Dioni
Jorge Lopez Cano ... Proprietor of the Bordello
Alonso Alegría ... Sacerdote
Gerardo Ruiz ... Jorge
Johnny Mendoza ... Comprador de Droga
Javier Echevarría ... Rector de Universidad



Also Known As: Don't Tell Anyone (Europe: English title)

Runtime: 120 min
Country: Spain , Peru
Language: Spanish

Filming Locations: Lima, Peru

In Lima, Peru, everything could have been so easy for Joaquin. His family is well off, his studies have never given him any headaches and his girlfriends think he is a classy guy. But sometimes, having everything isn't enough. Don't Tell Anyone is a groundbreaking, honest and hard-hitting tale of the troubles that accompany a Peruvian man's search for sexual identity in a country intolerant of open homosexuality.
All his life, Joaquin knew he preferred men. But he dared not tell anyone, not his father, Luis Felipe, a racist and unobliging male chauvinist patriarch who tries to beat the secrets of masculinity into him, nor his mother, Marichuca, whose pious Catholicism deepens his sense of guilt. But soon Joaquin begins a passionate and tangled affair with Gonzalo that puts him face to face with his own homosexuality, as well as with the extraordinary and complicated forces in Peru that work to keep him locked in the closet. Based on the controversial novel by Peruvian writer Jaime Bayly, Don't Tell Anyone is a powerful and unique portrait of the dichotomous world of homosexuality that exists in Peru and many parts of Latin America.



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01 April 2008

X 2000 (1998) - shot movie, 8 min


X 2000 (1998) - shot movie, 8 min

Nekako ovih dana bas nemam vremena za gledanje filmova. Nakupilo mi se posla pa kada dodjem doma nije mi nidočega.
Zato ujutro pogledam koliko mogu , a ovi kratki filmovi su idealni za to! François Ozon, mi je hit ovih dana!:)
Ovaj kratki film od 8 minuta je zaista remek dijelo. U tako tako malo vremena, u filmu bez riječi rečeno je tako mnogo.
François Ozon, je savršeno uhvatio trenutak nakon dočeka nove godine. Mamurluk, seksualna napetost koja nije splasnula jos od sinoć pri čemu baš i nismo spremni nizašta drugo sem kafe i tumaranja po stanu.
u blogu imate cijeli film.

Director: François Ozon
Writer: François Ozon (writer)
Genre: Short

Plot Keywords:
Twins / Ants / Millennium / Female Frontal Nudity / Gay Interest

Cast
(Complete credited cast)
Denise Aron-Schropfer ... The woman (as Denise Schropfer Aron)
Bruno Slagmulder ... The man
Lucia Sanchez ... A lover
Flavien Coupeau ... A lover
Lionel Le Guevellou ... A twin
Olivier Le Guevellou ... A twin


Runtime: 8 min
Country: France
Language:French

A very short film of 8 minutes.It's morning and the characters are sleeping it off after a New Year's Eve party. We all know the feeling and understandably there is little dialogue. Francois Ozon who wrote and directed the film has his naked characters wandering listlessly around the high-rise apartment. While drinking his "Alka-Seltzer" the man watches a couple engaging in sex in a neighbouring apartment. When he drops his glass and gathers up the broken pieces he spots a crawling mass of large black ants underneath the kitchen bin. He seems dazed at the sight of them and exclaims to his girl friend that the ants are attacking. Francois Ozon is in one of his teasing moods, I think. He only tells so much, leaves so much unsaid. It's strange when you come to think of it that the ants could appear on the umpteenth storey, and do they have any significance? I think Ozon is leaving it to each of us to finish off the film as we would have it. As it is, it's just an unfinished fragment begging for an ending!l

04 March 2008

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

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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











torchsongtrilogy1Torch 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.
tst-2Arnold 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.

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harvey-fierstein-and-matthew-broderick-in-torch-soIn 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.
Torch_Song_Trilogy_Harvey_Fierstein-500x298In 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.
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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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