Giles

^ I like the full title

Otto, or, Up with Dead People



I LOVE zombie films, I don't know why this isn't in my netflix queue.

Giles

^ I know I should probably comment on OTTO after watching the film completely, I've only watched about a half an hour of it, but the tone and structure of the film seems like a less pretensious (more homosexualized) Guy Maddin film, interspresed with some hardcore sex, the scene

let's hope the rest of the film is just as crazy.

LiquidSky

RIP Jack Wrangler
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article...At_62_20010101

Giles

^ really?! R.I.P

Giles

there was a fascinating 1985 interview over on NPR just within the last few days of the now deceased Jack Wrangler and Margaret Whiting

joeblow69

I finally watched this last night with a couple friends ... and found it excruciatingly boring. And if Bruce was doing his best to make the most annoying film he could, I dare say he succeeded. I kept turning to my friends, and wincing through the whole thing saying ... "Sorry, I'm sure it will get better!"

Finally, the last 10 or 15 minutes got a tad interesting, but great googily-moogily it's not worth sitting through the rest of that dreck to see!

LiquidSky

I've yet to see a BLB film I liked.

marty888

The only one of his that I ever recommend is SUGAR with Brendan Fehr and Andre Noble.

Giles

it's technically not a 'gay' film, but the comedic homoeroticism in 'OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies' is hysterical - of course it's a French riff on James Bond, where the implication that the lead character Hubert Bonisseur swings both ways is well... oh so French.

joeblow69

I actually really liked Raspberry Reich, though after watching it a second time a couple weeks ago, I will admit, there's a lot of "monologue time filler" in there.

That seems to be the big problem with all of BLB's films, he doesn't have quite enough story to fill out 90 minutes so he has one of his stars babble on and on incoherently about some random deep sounding subject.

Oooh, another one I liked was the German skin head movie. Skin Gang? Though the porno version was better.

Flicker

Here is a title I would recommend for any non-homophobic film lover. Connie and Carla

I found it new recently for 2.99 and have watched it five times. I love the musical numbers!

LiquidSky

Yeah, I saw the xxx version too.

Giles

oh that's the one that has Dash Mihok

Dash -

Giles

since the thread's popped up again (pun intended)

I watched Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends last night and was very impressed. I must admit I was completely clueless that Rainer also played the lead - he was cute back in 1975. Anyhow, the film was stunning, from the top notch acting and evocative cinematographer that makes the viewer almost seem too voyeuristic. The character of Eugen was such a shit, well come to think nearly everyone was flawed (that's a positive by the way), if I had a boyfriend like Eugen I would have kicked him in the teeth.

I should rewatch 'Querelle' which I haven't seen in a loooong time - it's my understanding that the DVD is the slightly longer international cut of the film.

Giles

I've been rewatching 'Tales of the City' which is a rivetting 1993 miniseries produced by the UK's Channel Four and originally aired on PBS. I know the story and how it all ends but it has its charms, from it's multitude of characters and interweaving storylines, it's like reconnecting with old friends. While it has a cast of familiar faces, Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Thomas Gibson, it's also the ancillary side characters who pop up: Parker Posey, Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Jeter - it really is a remarkable cast. The great audio commentary which includes the director, the writer Armistead Maupin, Olympia and Laura sadly it's only confined to episodes 1, 3 and 6.

LiquidSky

I loaned this to a friend recently. She and her daughter loved it.

joeblow69

I loved this as well. .. More tales is also good, but I couldn't get into Futher Tales.

One of these series replaced the actor that played Mouse with some ugly guy, which is a bit of a downer.

Giles

yeah Marcus D'Amico was great and so irrestiably cute as Mouse (I'd love to hear his native British accent, he does the American 'yokel thang' quite well) as was Paul Gross (Brian) ("hubba, hubba") it was too bad neither returned for either 'More Tales' / 'Further Tales'. It's interesting to note that they two as well as Chloe Webb continue in TV for the most part, but never made it to the big screen as Laura Linney did.

Flicker

I'm not familiar with him or his character in the movie. I'll have to check iMDB.

Giles

here, I present...

Dash:



howtness!!

Flicker

Oh, OK. He played one of the boyfriends.

critterdvd

Personally I hated 'Sugar.' I think it was just a little to dark and disturbing.


I love that miniseries and all of the sequel's. I read all the books (there are seven now) throughout high school and for some reason these characters stuck with me. Personally I think the original miniseries is the best produced, but thought "more tales..." was more fun/adventurous.

If your a fan of the books and havn't checked out the "reunion" - 'Michael Tolliver Lives' you really should - it's pretty interesting to see what happens to everyone 20 years later.

Giles

I just ordered 'Michael Tolliver Lives' from Amazon, and I added 'More Tales and 'Further Tales on my Netflix queue, I saw a coupld episodes of 'More...' but not all of it.

LiquidSky

It's sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read.

Giles

just watched a movie called "Bear City" - which the director notes in the commentary as 'Sex and the City' ... with burly hairy guys in the key roles. The story revolves around a young New Yorker (non-bear) Tyler who has a secret, his crush on hirsute guys. He meets a guy online and goes to his first bear bar and meets and becomes friends with some of it's patrons. The cast is fun, but the plot and some of the scriptwriting seems a bit cliched at times, but the humour and charm are the highlight of the film. It's also great to see an American movie made about the bear community.

on the technical side of the DVD: the 5.1 surround sound mix is really not that good, it's all off balance nearly all the sound is coming from the center, left and left surround, not to the mention the dialogue track is mixed too low - I had to trip on the english subs just to read all the dialogue I was missing.

the commentary track is brutal not only in it's tone - it's a tad vulgar and given it's around four guys talking about the movie, it's too busy and a bit much - I gave up on it twenty minutes in.