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Francis Lee, the director of God's Own Country, is back with a new film called Ammonite that unites Kate Winslet with two of the stars of his earlier film, Gemma Jones and Alec Secareanu. Only this time it's set in the 19th century and about a love affair between two women.

It almost looks like a prototype of The Ritz.

This made me think of an episode of The IT Crowd where they went to a show called "Gay: A Gay Musical."

And again going back to the original film for inspiration. There, William Friedkin used an instrumental version of another Burt Bacharach song: "The Look of Love." The original, of course, was by Dusty Springfield in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. That she was a lesbian makes the connection...

But not tame enough for Disney+, evidently, even though it's only Disney-by-proxy because of the Fox buyout. Two men can hit each other and nobody bats an eye. But they kiss each other and suddenly that's when they sound the alarms. You'd think that wouldn't still be the case. Now you tell me...

It predates The Exorcist, which I've always found immensely overrated, by three years. The only films he made before that were Good Times (the Sonny and Cher star vehicle, not the TV sitcom), The Birthday Party (a film of a Harold Pinter play), and The Night They Raided Minsky's (produced by...

I'm done with streaming after what Hulu did to The Golden Girls. At least there's still DVD, Blu-ray, and 4k UHD. That's why threads like this matter: to help promote gay-themed films that I might otherwise never have heard of.

That also has RuPaul in a male role, unlike the Brady Bunch movies.

I'm surprised that wasn't included in the Anne Bancroft box set.

Not me. I will always call it Fox. Funny how they keep the most dated part of the name.

I might have enjoyed it had it not been for the Disney buyout of Fox and the involvement of Greg Berlanti.

I agree. I don’t buy “they wanted it” as an excuse.

Civil disobedience is sometimes the only answer. Lots of gay men were dying and very few people wanted to help because they were afraid they would die, too. I cried like I had never cried before at a movie. This was not the cheap and cloying fake-sadness of Philadelphia or any other time a gay...

It's refreshing to see a movie that acknowledges the validity of gay male rage. I want angry movies. I want yelling and screaming. I want openly gay action heroes. I want to see homophobes get pummeled. I want movies that combine explicit gay sex with ultraviolence against anti-gay bigots. I'm...

I saw it at the Castro Theatre and I cried throughout. It is an emotionally draining experience, but one every gay man needs to see. We need reminders of that which was taken away from us.

I agree. It is a travesty that it was not at least nominated for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

I still have to watch Weekend; now I have two movies to watch.

Even if it isn't great, it can't be worse than the majority of modern-day heterosexual rom-coms that fall flat.

Well, let's be fair: the latter movie opens with him

Not to backtrack too much, but it eventually hit me: reminded me of Marshall attempting to sell a Woody Allen homage to New Yorkers at a Student Film Festival on United States of Tara. Even that used the same credits font. That would be like me trying to copy John Waters — in an era when real...

I didn't realize you didn't grow up in Boston. I have relatives in Framingham. What about Welcome to the Dollhouse? Does that count if the female lead came out as a lesbian years after the fact and the boy in that movie got bullied by bullies who called him a f----t? We got that in Chapel Hill.

Now I see what you mean. Growing up in North Carolina, we didn't get the most esoteric stuff outside of the highest-profile arthouse releases (Wilde, Get Real, et al), but I remember The Birdcage and In & Out playing to packed houses. This was a place that was racially segregated less than 50...

Europe is a generation ahead of the US on gay rights so they get better movies about gay subject matter. While we're on the subject, why don't we worship and adore actual gay men? I'd rather listen to Johnny Mathis, Peter Allen, and Barry Manilow, the two of whom who are still living I've even...

Perhaps he should have tried to copy the more obviously funny, pre-Annie Hall Woody Allen instead of the dark-for-dark's-sake faux-Bergman, post-Annie Hall Woody Allen. But at least Woody Allen could also get Sven Nykvist. This looks like videotaped community theater. No wait, I take it back...

Cliff Gorman and his wife also took in Robert LaTourneaux when he was dying of AIDS. And of all the people to try and distance themselves from it, why him?

Sometimes sadness can be beautiful. Sometimes anger and bitterness are justified. Pretending everything is okay when it really isn't is unhealthy. But only up to a point. Gay movies don't have to be all-camp all the time, but at least let a little light shine through the darkness.

Except cancel Netflix and save my money to fund an all-gay all-Jewish re-remake. Except I'm not waiting 50 years. Leonard Frey IS Harold; as a gay Jew, casting a non-Jew in that role was and is a slap in the face, especially when they would never cast a non-black actor as Bernard. I will mourn...

That it needed an insufferable, condescending hack like Ryan Murphy to get made at all should be mourned, not celebrated. As a gay man, I resent being pressured to support all things gay all the time, especially from someone whose work has ranged from underwhelming to flat-out annoying. I feel...

Exactly. This just feels superfluous. A videotaped stage production, especially when professional video cameras are much smaller and higher in resolution now than they were in 1970, and especially when videotaped theatre is being pumped into movie houses across the country on a regular basis for...

Either way, they lost me at Ryan Murphy. I'm sticking to the movie.