The Birdcage – 1996 The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, adapted by Elaine May, and starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, and Dianne Wiest. Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, and Christine Baranski appear in supporting roles. It is an English-language remake of the 1978 Franco-Italian film La Cage aux Folles and the musical of the same name. Trailer Plot Armand Goldman is the […]
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Maurice – 1987 Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel Maurice by E. M. Forster. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw as Mrs Hall, and Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones. The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written
Behind the Candelabra – 2013 Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 American biographical drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. It dramatizes the last ten years in the life of pianist Liberace and the relationship that he had with Scott Thorson. It is based on Thorson’s memoir, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace (1988). Richard LaGravenese wrote the screenplay. Jerry Weintraub was the executive producer. It premiered at
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Beautiful Something – 2016 Four gay men living in Philadelphia reflect on life, love, and art over the course of one night. A model-turned-actor (Zack Ryan) serves as a muse for a talented sculptor (Colman Domingo), but worries that their relationship lacks real intimacy. Elsewhere, a poet (Brian Sheppard) deals with writer’s block, and
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Lonesome – 2022 Lonesome is an Australian drama film, directed by Craig Boreham and released in 2022. The film centres on Casey (Josh Lavery), a young man who grew up on a ranch in rural Australia but moves to Sydney when he is rejected by his father after being outed as gay. The film’s cast also includes Daniel Gabriel as Tib,
In From The Side – 2022 In from the Side is a British film, directed by Matt Carter and written by Carter and Adam Silver. Carter had been involved in inclusive rugby for 8 years when the film was released. It was released in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2022. It is due to be
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Hypochondriac – 2022 A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma. Hypochondriac, and the phrase that haunts the character of Will (Zach Villa) as he spirals deeper and deeper down into paranoia that his body’s betraying him and a
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The lord of the Ants – 2022 Il signore delle formiche Il signore delle formiche is a 2022 Italian comedy film directed by Gianni Amelio. The film, presented in competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, traces the story of the writer and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti, protagonist between 1964 and 1968 of a very controversial judicial process, the so-called “Braibanti case”, played by Luigi Lo Cascio. In 1959 Aldo Braibanti, former partisan and
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Golden Delicious – 2022 Golden Delicious is a Canadian coming-of-age drama film, directed by Jason Karman and released in 2022. The film stars Cardi Wong as Jake, a Chinese Canadian teenager who must confront the expectations of his family when he joins the school basketball team in a bid to get closer to his classmate Aleks (Chris Carson), with whom
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Shall I Compare you to a Summer’s Day – 2022 (Bashtaalak sa’at) A glance leads to a smile, a smile to a rendezvous: every love story begins the same way. These narratives are stored in songs and poems and live on beyond their inevitable endings, as Shakespeare’s titular sonnet 18 also suggests. In Mohammad
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