Comments on: Elliot’s Top Ten Gay Movies

By: Carole

Carole — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:41:58 +0000

I would love to say that the one lesbian movie I own is “But I’m A Cheerleader” because that’s the one I wish I actually owned. However, the one I do own is “Better Than Chocolate” because, Christina Cox (and she was in “Blood Ties” last night, the new Lifetime show based on the Tanya Huff novels). As a movie, “Better Than Chocolate” has some fairly cringe-worthy writing, but she’s very cute in it.

I do have to buy “But I’m A Cheerleader” because it is actually hilarious, and Clea Duvall is incredible.

Every lesbian in the world has a crush on Susan Sarandon because of “The Hunger”. It’s unavoidable. :)

BTW, the absolute worst “lesbian” movie of all time is “Claire of the Moon”. It’s so horrible it makes me completely baffled as to why there are so many lesbians who actually like it.

By: me

me — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:08:02 +0000

Didn’t really feel all that excited about Metrosexuality or Bedrooms & Hallways. I considered “Wedding Banquet”, but again it just felt like a gay-themed straight film. Hard to explain exactly: when I’m in the mood to watch a fun, affirming gay film, I don’t want to spend 90 minutes watching a bunch of closeted people running around, no matter how relevant the subject material might be. (It’s a fine line since I included Brokeback.)

I’m curious what your lesbian movie is. I remember watching one that I quite enjoyed but for the life of my I can’t remember the title. Another CLASSIC that has a nice lesbian theme is The Hunger—Catherine Deneuvre and Susan Sarandon in that climactic scene (if it is rediculously soft-pornish, but hey, 1983!) with David Bowie to boot!

By: Carole

Carole — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:30:00 +0000

I really agree about “Latter Days”. This was a real find. After renting I liked it enough to buy it. I also really agree about “Beautiful Thing”. I loved this one so much that I bought two copies, one a weird Japanese subtitled thing that came out before the official region 1 version came out, and the other the regular region 1 version.

Other British gems of note: “Metrosexuality”, “Get Real”, and “Bedrooms and Hallways” (Hugo Weaving and Tom Hollander are just unbelievable in the latter).

What about “Wedding Banquet”? And would you consider “Velvet Goldmine” to be a gay film?

Also, I find it interesting that of the “big two” Merchant-Ivory type films, “Maurice” and “Another Country” you chose “Maurice”. I happen to agree with this actually, but I’d have put “Another County” on the honorable mention.

I own almost every movie on your list, by the way, and only own one “lesbian” film, because “lesbian” films tend to be really, really terrible, embarrassingly so.

Oh, one more gay film I own that isn’t on your list: “Big Eden”. I can’t help loving the old lady who says, “why didn’t he SAY something already” (about the main character not coming out)! She was just hilarious.