Gay-Friendly Blu-rays (1 Viewer)

[bujaki]

I love Auntie Mame since I saw the film on a screen as a teen in the mid''60s. I have loved watching it over and over again with my wife and children. I also saw the same production you saw of Mame, with Juliet Prowse, in Dallas. Even read both books: Auntie Mame, and Around the World with Auntie Mame. I couldn't stop laughing.
Rosalind Russell remains the creator and quintessential Mame for me.

 

[Mark-W]

"Rosalind Russell remains the creator and quintessential Mame for me." -Bujaki

Exactly how I feel as well.

 

[Matt Hough]

I couldn't get tickets for Lansbury's Mame on Broadway, but I saw two of her replacements: Janis Paige and Ann Miller. Both sold the show like there was no tomorrow. I think it's one of the GREAT musicals of the 1960s and for me actually betters the non-musical version by combining some secondary characters and eliminating others. Plus there is that SCORE which I think is Jerry Herman's best, better than Dolly! or La Cage.

 

[MatthewA]

The movie Mame is the reason I don't use tobacco products.

 

[bujaki]

I agree with Matt that the score for Mame is superior to that of Dolly's or La Cage; however, I have a very, very soft spot for Mack and Mabel's score (I Won't Send Roses, and Time Heals Everything always stop my world), and the book, albeit flawed, is about our favorite subject: MOVIES.

 

[Steve Tannehill]

Started reading the book of Auntie Mame on Jose's recommendation. I'm enjoying it a lot.

 

[bujaki]

Steve, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Do follow up with the sequel, Around the World with Auntie Mame, which was dedicated by Patrick Dennis to Rosalind Russell. There must have been a reason for that, don't you think?

 

[Steve Tannehill]

I finished Auntie Mame...it's definitely gay-friendly, with Mame going to Fire Island and her asking Patrick when he was opposed to marriage if he liked boys.Now we need the movie on blu.

 

[Mark-P]

Here's a 10 year old movie making its Blu-ray debut:

 

[schan1269]

Here's a 10 year old movie making its Blu-ray debut:

I've(by happenstance) bought all the Strand Releasing BD.

Not a bad one of the bunch. Not many...but done right.

In my cart.

 

[Jason_V]

So Mysterious Skin is a thumbs up? I've been meaning to catch up with it for a long, long time...and I just haven't gotten there yet.

 

[Mark-W]

I thought it was well done, but it has been a while since I saw it. The subject matter leaves it as one I personally don't want to revisit often.

Completely unrelated, I popped in to note that Capote is on Blu-ray and part of the mega BD sale happening now at Amazon of titles under $9.99

So Mysterious Skin is a thumbs up? I've been meaning to catch up with it for a long, long time...and I just haven't gotten there yet.

 

[bujaki]

Mysterious Skin is a haunting movie. The subject matter, although difficult, is treated sensitively.
How the human psyche deals with damage is indeed amazing.
Not to be missed.

 

[Jason_V]

Alright, I bumped it up the queue. It's number three, behind The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and Bear City...

 

[Matt Hough]

Yes, I'm not sorry to have watched Mysterious Skin, but it isn't a movie I go back to very often. Well worth seeing though for the performances.

 

[bujaki]

I've only seen it once, Matt, but it's stayed with me and my wife after all these years. It also confirmed what a great actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is.
On a similar vein, have you checked the movie L.I.E (2001), with Brian Cox and Paul Dano? Cox, playing a conflicted man, in unforgettable.

 

[Matt Hough]

I've only seen it once, Matt, but it's stayed with me and my wife after all these years. It also confirmed what a great actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is.
On a similar vein, have you checked the movie L.I.E (2001), with Brian Cox and Paul Dano? Cox, playing a conflicted man, in unforgettable.

I don't know it, but now that you've mentioned it, I'll see about checking it out.

 

[Mark-W]

I saw this and thought of your comment, MatthewA:

Walt Disney World cuts ties [and funding] with Boy Scouts of America Until They Become Fully Inclusive


MatthewA wrote:

Both with and without Walt, and possibly by accident, underneath all those boy/girl love stories, Disney's been promoting a gay agenda for decades. Like here and here. And here. And here. And here (he was also called a "punk poet" back when punk wasn't a subgenre of rock). And here. And Johnny getting beat up over his shirt collar in Song of the South. And Hayley Mills' little brother getting teased for his androgynous hairstyle in Summer Magic. And Merriweather's hatred of pink in Sleeping Beauty (an animated movie based on a Tchaikovsky ballet, no less, and one of the few films where the prince is more interesting than the princess). And the editor cutting away from Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello every time they kiss in the Merlin Jones movies. And even in a minor film like Gus, where Ed Asner gets kissed on the lips by a man and brushes it off as no big deal (unlike Paramount's Planes, Trains and Automobiles, where Steve Martin and John Candy panic after the "those aren't pillows" sequence). And don't forget, they produced The Golden Girls (Blanche's brother was gay) and Ellen, or that the work of an openly gay lyricist helped save theatrical animation. And the fact that they own ABC, which airs the 20th Century Fox-produced Modern Family. And now with the penultimate episode of Good Luck Charlie, Disneyland is finally our land, to paraphrase Walt, and we've moved up from "veiled subtext" to living openly and honestly as ourselves in their films and TV shows. Even the statue of Disneyland is of two sentient males (albeit of a different species) holding hands. And after the Divine/Ursula thing, they paid John Waters back by letting him do a voice in a Disney Channel cartoon.

And I couldn't be happier. Unless the home video division got its act together.

 

[Jason_V]

On a similar vein, have you checked the movie L.I.E (2001), with Brian Cox and Paul Dano? Cox, playing a conflicted man, in unforgettable.

I saw it eons ago. I remember being more than a little freaked out and disappointed by it. L.I.E. came out at a time where I wanted all movies with a gay character or plot to be something--I'm not sure what--and when they didn't measure up, I felt let down. A good number of people like the movie, so I know I was too immature to understand what was going on.

 

[MatthewA]

I saw this and thought of your comment, MatthewA:

Walt Disney World cuts ties [and funding] with Boy Scouts of America Until They Become Fully Inclusive

Well, I guess we can forget seeing Follow Me, Boys! on Blu-ray until that happens!