My article on these: "Who's Renting These Boys?"Ī documentary about boy prostitution in Prague. WIKTOR GRODECKI'S CZECH HUSTLER DOCUMENTARIES:
It obviously struck a chord, becoming the audience favorite at the Pula festival in '02 as well as Croatia's nominee for an Oscar the following year. The film takes aim at the brutality and amorality of contemporary Croatian society, targeting patriarchy, nationalism, and the Catholic Church, as well as homophobia. In Fine Dead Girls Iva and Marija move into an apartment building that is home to a rogues' gallery of characters: a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, a prostitute paid to break up the couple by a priest who is one girl's father, a homophobic gorgon of an apartment manager, and her son, a slacker mama's boy who rapes one of the pair to prove his masculinity.
The sole woman among the leads is the cause of all conflict, while Milan's father and best friend accept his gay affair with equanimity.įine mrtve djevojke (Fine Dead Girls) 2002 Though firmly anti-Serb and anti-war, the film reads as ultimately misogynistic. Ranka eventually outs the gay men to Milan's father, while Milan is drafted into the Serbian army and killed. These two men barely kiss onscreen, though Kenan, who is bisexual, is shown having sex at least twice with Ranka, the village prostitute. The pair escape to Milan's village, where the disguise is maintained through a traditional wedding. No gay cowboy awards allowed.A gay male couple in Sarajevo, Kenan, a Bosnian, and Milan, a Serb, plan to emigrate to the gay-friendly Netherlands, but the war strands them in Serb-controlled territory, and Kenan adopts female drag to avoid being found out as a circumcised Muslim.
The average demographic profile of a member in 2005 had been: white, male, in his early 50's. The AMPAAS had vastly expanded its membership in the previous 3 years to include more people of color and women, generally younger, too. He enrolls in LaGuardia Performing Arts High School and nine years later, in 2017, Timothee stars in "Call Me By Your Name," and - well, wtf, you know?Īlso, as you probably know, the 2016 Best Picture Oscar goes to "Moonlight," about three stages in the growing up of a young gay black man in Miami. In a NYC theater in 2008 watching Ledger's performance and deciding right then and there that he wanted to be an actor as good as Ledger was 13-year-old Timothee Chalamet. Here's the weird twistie - Heath Ledger doesn't win best actor as Ennis Del Mar, gay cowboy, but he next makes "The Dark Knight" and for his performance as the murderous psychotic The Joker wins 2008's Best Supporting Actor Oscar - after his tragic death from drug OD. So the award went to a second rate thing called "Crash," which most people had forgotten about by the next morning.
#AMATURE OLDER YOUNGER GAY MOVIES MOVIE#
The same way that everybody knew 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" was the best film that year - hell, Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Director for it, it won best screenplay - but since the entire membership votes for Best Picture, as opposed to individual craft groups or unions in other categories, there was no way all the electricians and carpenters were going to vote for a gay cowboy movie as Best Picture. Instead, he got the Oscar the following year 2010 for "The King's Speech," playing King George V.
Directed by fashion designer Tom Ford with pitch-perfect pacing and tone a wonderful supporting performance by Timothy Hoult - and Colin Firth should have won the Oscar for his performance, but it was still noHomo Hollywood (including characters portrayed) - so he didn't. Agree completely, became one of my favorite films of 2009.