I saw this and Maurice around the same time and to me they are very similar in setting and tone. They are both wonderful movies, and I am very excited to see this is getting a BD release.
I highly recommend all three of these films. Stephen Cone is an AMAZING filmmaker. I especially love The Wise Kids, the most authentic and honest portrayal of the Christian world in the dramatic cinema form that I have ever seen.
Wow, sounds almost like the flip side of Kanarie. (BTW, last year I recommended Kanarie to a friend of mine who was born and raised in South Africa and was in the Army around roughly the same time as that film--not in the choir, though. He loved the film and said it felt very true to the era.)...
When I saw this at a festival in September, it was titled simply Adonis. I did not like it at all. It didn't seem to have anything worthwhile to say--or if it did, it didn't get across to me. It started out promising in the first few minutes, with wonderful photography of beautiful scenery...
No. You cannot credibly judge a movie by a trailer. It is impossible. I've seen some movies that had amazingly good trailers, and found the movies themselves to be somewhat wanting. On the other hand, I've seen some amazingly good movies that had trailers that were so-so or worse.
I saw In a...
Interior. Leather Bar. is not a recreation of the rumored deleted scenes from Cruising, nor is it intended to be such. It is a scripted drama that takes the form of a documentary about such a recreation. The entire point of the film is to be a meditation on several issues about sex in cinema...
Pit Stop is an astonishingly good film, and is my favorite from Chicago's Reeling 31 festival. It would be so nice to be able to have this on Blu-ray, but I'll have to settle with DVD for the time being. Yen Tan has earned his way onto my short list of favorite directors. His previous...