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Absolution
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At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield (Dominic Guard) is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard (Richard Burton). In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend Blakey (Sir Billy Connolly) and buried him in the forest. When Goddard investigates the matter, he finds a buried scarecrow. Goddard is outraged, but, due to the seal of confession, he knows he cannot expel Stanfield. Shortly after, Stanfield once again enters the confession booth, telling Goddard that what before was a practical joke, he has now made happen. In disbelief, Goddard once again goes to the forest to investigate the matter. This time, he discovers Blakey's dead body. The plot soon thickens as Stanfield's fellow student Arthur Dyson (David Bradley) mysteriously disappears.Richard Burton is an actor I could watch - and listen to - all day long (and never more so than when he appears alongside Elizabeth Taylor). He's extraordinary in the extraordinary Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Boom! ("Mrs. Goforth!"), and, of course, that opulent behemoth, Cleopatra (the film, not Ms. Taylor). His presence automatically elevates a production (not that Boom! needs further heightening, with Ms. Taylor drunkenly hectoring anyone who comes near - including Noël Coward - from the cliffs of an Italian island).
In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail
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Moses Sumney
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He could do so much for me if he just would. He could do everything for me
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He don't have to move very far to go nuts in the first place and so he don't have so far to come back
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Blonde Animals
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Fallen 90's sitcom star Fabien, on a road trip to Paris, crosses pathes with Yoni, a young, romantic soldier with baggage of his own, along the way.Blonde Animals is a queer fish.
It's a surreal, whimsical, sort-of road trip movie, with questions about identity, loss, and grief at its core. It's regularly laugh out loud funny, with gags that hinge on memory (or lack of it), a decapitated head, and over-stimulated coprophiliacs (trust me: you really don't want to Google that).
Thomas Scimeca injects warmth and likability into the role of Fabien, stopping Blonde Animals becoming... too much. Things do drag a little towards the end, but perhaps only in light of the frenetic action in the first half.
Mad, madcap, daring and unhinged, Blonde Animals is a film with a lot of heart, and likely unlike anything you'll have seen before.
Nothing can marry two people closer than a mutual sin in the world's eyes
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Muzi
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Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock
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There remains yet something of honor and pride, of life
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The bells were ringing again, high in the scudding sunlight in bright disorderly tatters of sound
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Darkroom
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Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves with his lover Roland to Berlin. They renovate an apartment with the intention of finally living together. Their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn't know: while secretly checking out Berlin's night life, Lars is experimenting with a deadly poison.Director, author, painter and LGBT-activist Rosa von Praunheim has a resume of some 150 films under his belt, stretching back to 1968, with last year's Darkroom his most recent work.
The film is based on the very real case of Berlin serial killer "Dirk P", who committed a string of murders in spring 2012, information on which is surprisingly scant (I could find only a couple of articles on the case). Viewers will also be reminded of the more recent case of Stephen Port in London.
Whilst parts of the movie work, Darkroom is less than the sum of its pieces. It's the "after" portions - largely courtroom scenes - of the movie that most undermine it. Stagey and faintly comedic, they're in sharp contrast to the dark scenes of murder. They sap energy away from the forward thrust of the narrative; if not handled with a deft hand, courtroom scenes kill drama.
The cast is good, although Kocevski is somewhat impenetrable as Lars. Bardo Böhlefeld is eyecatching as doomed Bastian.
Darkroom isn't a dud, but compared to the likes of the slick My Friend Dahmer, it's a bit messy, and less than satisfying.
Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame
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Two moments of Jonas's life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1995, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life.One of the most startling additions to the LGBT film cannon in recent years was last year's brutal, raw and devastating Sauvage, starring Félix Maritaud.
Maritaud - who also appeared in the much-lauded BPM (Beats Per Minute) - is the titular Jonas, in a film that's alternatively known as I Am Jonas (for Netflix), and even Boys (not to be confused with Mischa Kamp's 2014 Dutch feature).
His fragile, vulnerable beauty is used to potent effect in a film about the terrible legacy of adolescent trauma and grief; Maritaud has a face etched with pain, and yet is also strikingly beautiful. He might well be a living, breathing reincarnation of St. Sebastian.
Director Christophe Charrier has executed a beautifully shot film that delivers another twist in the coming-of-age narrative, with a uniformly excellent (and highly attractive) cast, and a well-paced narrative that straddles two timelines. A future classic - and another feather in the cap for Félix Maritaud.
The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present
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Equation to an Unknown
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This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through myriad sexual encounters - from a soccer game's locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak. Newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negative and directed with absolute grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (also know as Francis Savel and Frantz Salieri). This former painter was also the owner and artistic director of one of the first queer cabarets of Paris, La Grande Eugene. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on Mr. Klein and Don Giovanni. Equation to an Unknown is his only film and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece - easily one of the best French gay adult films ever made.
This special edition includes Remembering the Equation, a video essay about the film by Knife+Heart director Yann Gonzalez; Diary of a Fight, a short film narrated by Alain Delon featuring director Francis Savel (the real name of Dietrich da Velsa); the original 1980 film trailer; a brand-new theatrical trailer and more. The Blu-ray also includes a vintage Jean Daniel Cadinot centerfold poster featuring sexy lead actor Gianfranco Longhi.
Equation to an Unknown, a film by Francis Savel.
This long-lost masterpiece of gay erotic cinema centers on a handsome young stud who rides his motorcycle through myriad sexual encounters - from a soccer game's locker room to a dreamy and unsettling orgy where the film reaches its melancholic peak. Newly scanned in 2K from the original camera negative and directed with absolute grace by the mysterious Dietrich de Velsa (also know as Francis Savel and Frantz Salieri). This former painter was also the owner and artistic director of one of the first queer cabarets of Paris, La Grande Eugene. Years later, he collaborated with Joseph Losey on Mr. Klein and Don Giovanni. Equation to an Unknown is his only film and stands without a doubt as a masterpiece - easily one of the best French gay adult films ever made.
Equation to an Unknown, a film by Francis Savel.
All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years
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Orpheus' Song is the latest feature from Tor Iben, whose last film was the strange, unsettling (and definitely worth seeing) The Year I Lost My Mind.
I was reminded of Kirk Shannon-Butts' woozy, underrated 2007 gem, Blueprint, which similarly sees two men go walkabout in picturesque countryside. As with Blueprint, Iben successfully takes the viewer on the couple's journey, inviting us into their very intimate dance. The developing undercurrent of sexual tension is intoxicating.
So too is the beauty of the two male leads: Sascha Weingarten, in particular, is mesmerisingly lovely, and the chemistry between him and handsome costar Julien Lickert really sells the fantasy.
Short and sweet (it clocks in at just seventy-two minutes) this is one song you'll want to play, and play again.
To be young. To be young. There is nothing else like it: there is nothing else in the world
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After his family falls apart Joshua is forced to move to Canada to live with his estranged father. It is there he meets Jay, a local tattoo artist. The two becomes closer despite the negativity that surrounds them.It's rare to come across a movie with virtually no redeeming features. Even the output of that vainglorious hack Rikki Beadle-Blair can boast of a talented young cast buried somewhere beneath layers of cack.
Look, getting a film made isn't easy; writing a negative review is. But our time is precious, and with so much content out there, and LGBT cinema more accessible than ever thanks to streaming, we need to separate wheat from chaff. If I can save just one person from the excruciating ordeal that is Beneath The Skin, then this (reluctant) hatchet job will have been worth it.
Aaron Ellis wrote, directed and stars in the film, which he claims is inspired by his "teen years as a young gay man". Unfortunately, as well as having the charisma of a limp lettuce leaf, Ellis has the acting ability of a soggy cardboard box. His cast are uniformly awful, and saddled with the burden of having to fake Canadian accents (spoiler: no one succeeds, and the results are catastrophically distracting). Ellis has also roped in porn star Hunter Page, who's the least worst thing about this mess, and whose appeal will likely ensnare more unfortunate viewers than would otherwise have stumbled upon this mess.
That sounds like it might be Another Gay Movie-level fun, but this isn't a comedy: Beneath The Skin takes itself deadly seriously. Everything happens at a snail's pace, and labours under a suffocating, repetitious piano score, before reaching the most unlikely of climaxes you're likely to witness.
Along the way, there are mean girl antics, a bizarre subplot with Wayne Virgo (Shank), and a suburban Berkshire house standing in for Nova Scotia apartment building (access via the kitchen door around the back).
Along the way, there are mean girl antics, a bizarre subplot with Wayne Virgo (Shank), and a suburban Berkshire house standing in for Nova Scotia apartment building (access via the kitchen door around the back).
Don't let Beneath The Skin get under your skin: watch something better, like QVC. You'll thank me.
He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm
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From Zero To I Love You
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Meet Pete (Darryl Stephens), a guy in Philadelphia with a history of falling for married men. His father (Richard Lawson), and his soon-to-be stepmother (Leslie Zemeckis), want him to find someone single and settle down. Instead Jack - fifteen years into a "perfect marriage", with two kids in tow - walks into his life...Noah's Arc graduates Darryl Stephens and Doug Spearman reunite, in front of, and behind the camera, respectively, on Spearman's second run at directing a feature (he also directed the 2013 comedy Hot Guys With Guns).
Stephens hasn't exactly been camera shy since Noah's Arc's premature climax, his resume boasting a swathe of mainstream prime time viewing, and gay series like the sadly passed-over DTLA (he's also been working on a series adaptation of 2006's Boy Culture, recreating his role from that movie).
Surprising, enchanting, and sexy, From Zero To I Love You is a winner. Doug Spearman: what's next?
Submerged
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Burned out by the online dating scene, Horace (Harrison Grant) decides to have a real date with a one-night stand, Steve (Matthew Bunker). However, he realises that he has to confront his fear before he can pursue a meaningful relationship.
Submerged, a film by Zheng "Nathan" Nie.
Burned out by the online dating scene, Horace (Harrison Grant) decides to have a real date with a one-night stand, Steve (Matthew Bunker). However, he realises that he has to confront his fear before he can pursue a meaningful relationship.
Submerged, a film by Zheng "Nathan" Nie.
Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive
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Monsoon
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Monsoon is a rich and poignant reflection on the struggle for identity in a place where the past weighs heavily on the present.
Kit (Henry Golding) returns to Ho Chi Minh City for the first time since he was six years old when his family fled the country in the aftermath of the Vietnam-American war. Struggling to make sense of himself in a city he’s no longer familiar with, he embarks on a personal journey across the country that opens up the possibility for friendship, love and happiness.
Monsoon, a film by Hong Khaou.
Monsoon is a rich and poignant reflection on the struggle for identity in a place where the past weighs heavily on the present.
Monsoon, a film by Hong Khaou.
He… who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it
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Zebra Katz
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This world is not his world; this life his life
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Perfume Genius
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On The Floor, new music from Perfume Genius. His new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, is out 15th May.
… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice
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