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I was hesitant about recommending this true story film that is incredibly touching. I may have mentioned it before but I’ve now found out the actors playing 17 were actually 19 so should be allowed. Fireworks is the English title. It’s a beautiful teenage love story that actually happened in...

more. Lovely film.

More Nuevo Olimpo

Have to admit to having a crush on the boy in un professore Damino Gavino who also stars in new Italian gay movie Nuevo Olimpio about two boys who meet and fall in love at a cinema in Rome. Circumstances beyond their control drive them apart and they spend the rest of their lives trying to find...

Un professore is a slow burner as far as the gay love story goes, but it’s worth the journey. As in the original Spanish series Merli, the son of the philosophy teacher falls in love with the straight sexy boy all the class adores. They become close friends and after a while the straight boy...

The boys from un professore

There’s also the crazy idea of filming in England originally. Exterior sets of Rome and Alexandria with English weather? What an idea.

Only one criticism I have of Cleopatra is the fact they have her entering Rome through the arch of Titus which wasn’t built for over another hundred years!

The only good thing Zanuck did was impose CinemaScope on the industry by making Fox film everything in the new wide screen process. No cinema could show any Fox movie if they didn’t convert. Fox had enough power then to make it happen. So thanks to Zanuck we got wide screen movies instead of...

Un professore is a wonderful, romantic, also very sexy Italian four part series set in Rome. It’s the Italian version of Spanish series Merli which focuses much more on the boys friendship becoming love than on the teacher father of one of them. And of course the boys are hot! It’s on YouTube.

Will try and get this now. The short sounds interesting.

Terrible but I have no recollection of this series at all. Did it get shown outside of the States and can we find it somewhere now?

I don’t know how but I saw this many years ago must have been just after it came out. Was very impressed by its honesty and explicitness for the time. And enjoyed it a lot. The surprise was that it came from the supposedly repressive DDR. I went into East Berlin back in the late 60s and it was...

Shelter. Still my number one gay romance film. Beautifully played and a lovely happy ending. Watch it whenever I need cheering up.

Sorry but nobody is worth 30 million for a few weeks work. Sharing that amongst the cast would be fair, proportional to how big their role is.

In the 60s we expected an intermission in films over three hours. Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, El CID, Fall of the Roman Empire. I think it a shame they don’t reinstall them for really long films.

Has Ari and Dante Discover The Secrets of the Universe come out anywhere yet?

I don’t know what their source is but French television has shown the best copies of our epics I’ve ever seen, El CID apart which hasn’t been shown on tv since I moved here 10 years ago. But the quality of the copies of most of the films they show I always exceptional, a real pleasure to watch...

I’ve now watched Red White and RoyalBlue seven times and am totally besotted with Taylor Zakhar Perez. But thought I should watch something else and found a sweet ItalianfilmFireworks about two young boys falling in love in 1980s Sicily. One of the boys has a father who beats him and his mother...