Gay Kiss Montage

by Andre Soares

 

This evening, Turner Classic Movies is showing several films with gay/bi/etc. characters as part of their Screened Out series. Two days ago, I was sent a link to the youtube video below. I’m posting it here as I found it both clever and perfectly appropriate to the occasion.

The video, created eight months ago by Robert Eldredge, was inspired by the finale of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso, in which Jacques Perrin watched clips from scenes — kisses, hugs, embraces, nudity, sensuality, expressions of human desire — that had been cut from the films screened at his village’s old movie house, courtesy of a Catholic priest-zealot with way too much time in his hands.

This particular montage, however, differs from Tornatore’s in that all the kisses and hugs we see are between members of the same sex — something that, even without direct input from sex-obsessed religious figures, remains very much a taboo in most (if not all) mainstream movies in Hollywood, Bollywood, Pinewood, and elsewhere.

Ennio Morricone’s sublime music, however, is still the same.

Curiously, Youtube requires that you log in to watch this video clip, as it’s considered potentially inappropriate. (I’m not sure if they have the same policy when it comes to heterosexual kisses.)

The list of films shown in the cilp, as per the video creator are:

1. Boys Briefs 1 or 2
2. ?
3. Better Than Chocolate
4. Boys briefs 1 or 2
5. Chasing Amy
6. Broken Hearts club
7. Kissing Jessica Stein
8. Beautiful Thing
9. ?
10. Come Undone (French)
11. Opposite of Sex
12. Boys Briefs 1 or 2
13. ?
14. Better Than Chocolate
15. Bedrooms and Hallways
16. Broken Hearts Club
17. Billy’s Hollywood Kiss
18. Come Undone
19. Psycho Beach Party
20. Love, Valour, and Compassion
21. Better Than Chocolate
22. ?
23. Billy’s Hollywood Kiss
24. Love, Valour, and Compassion
25. ?
26. In & Out
27. The Hours
28. Boys Briefs 1 or 2
29. Broken Hearts Club
30. Philadelphia

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Q&A with "Gay Kiss Montage" Creator Robert Eldredge

B Musicals at New York City’s Film Forum

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN by Ang Lee

QUEENS by Manuel Gómez Pereira

DESTRICTED Not Restricted to Sex Shops in Britain

BEYOND PARADISE: THE LIFE OF RAMON NOVARRO

 

 

by Andre Soares | June 20, 2007 | Filed Under American Cinema / Hollywood, Censorship, Film, Gay & Lesbian, Video 

Comments

2 Responses to “Gay Kiss Montage”

  1. twee on January 19th, 2008 11:12 pm

    I’m fairly sure that number 25 is from Lilies ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116882/ ) ^_^

    Beautiful montage!

  2. XXY on May 8th, 2008 1:45 pm

    Beautiful montage indeed! Thanks for posting it.

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