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Posts Tagged "gay love story"

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Watercolors ***½ (2008, Tye Olson, Kyle Clare, Greg Louganis, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 12,750

The winning bitter-sweet 2008 romantic film Watercolors stars Tye Olson and Kyle Clare as classmates Danny and Carter, two boys who make a splash at love.  ‘Two boys make a splash at love.’  ‘Only art […]

Dec, 07

Presque Rien [Almost Nothing] [Come Undone] *** (2000, Jérémie Elkaïm, Stéphane Rideau, Marie Matheron) – Classic Movie Review 12,729

The convincing and moving 2000 French romantic drama film Presque Rien [Almost Nothing] [Come Undone] stars Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in a story of a stormy holiday romance between two 18-year-old young men. Director […]

Nov, 28

Hawaii *** (2013, Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino, Manuel Martínez Sobrado, Luz Palazón, Antonia De Michelis) – Classic Movie Review 12,406

Marco Berger’s simple but effective 2013 gay love story film Hawaii is more or less a two-hander, as two young men from different social backgrounds, childhood friends years ago, meet up unexpectedly and confront their […]

Jan, 22

Nijinsky *** (1980, Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne) – Classic Movie Review 6027

Director Herbert Ross follows his hit 1977 dance movie The Turning Point with this sumptuously realised, passionately told, involvingly acted 1980 film version of the true-life gay love story of the tragic obsession of the choreographer […]

Sep, 15

Out of Iraq ***½ (2016, Nayyef Hrebid, Hayder ‘Btoo’ Allami, Michael Failla) – Movie Review

Directors Chris McKim and Eva Orner’s emotionally thrilling 2016 documentary is a great story with a happy ending well told. Usually happy stories don’t make good films, but this one does, as there’s plenty of high […]

Mar, 22

The Circle **** (2014, Ernst Ostertag, Robi Rapp) – Movie Review

Writer-director Stefan Haupt‘s 2014 film is the love story of young gay teacher Ernst Ostertag and the young transvestite singing star Robi Rapp he falls for in Zurich in 1958. It is a feature film rather than a […]

Nov, 14

My Beautiful Laundrette **** (1985, Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 461

Director Stephen Frears’s 1985 heart-warmer raises the spirits. It stars future double-Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis, who first captured the attention on screen here as Johnny, a gay, reformed racist punk. The Beautiful Laundrette of the title is […]

Nov, 30

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