YOSSI & JAGGER d: Eytan Fox
Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Direction: Eytan Fox
Screenplay: Avner Bernheimer
Cast: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg, Sharon Raginiano, Yuval Semo, Yaniv Moyal, Hanan Savyon
Yossi & Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan Fox from a screenplay by Avner Bernheimer, Yossi & Jagger is what the much more publicized, more elaborate, more expensive, and ultimately inferior Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be: A subversive film (not surprisingly, the Israeli army refused to give any assistance to the filmmakers) that shows soldiers, whether male or female, who seem as eager to fight a war as they are to, say, kneel over and vomit, and gay [...]
by Andre Soares | January 5, 2006
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Tags: Eytan Fox, Four-Star Gay Movies, Four-Star Movies, Gay Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Ohad Knoller, Political Movies, Romantic Movies, Yehuda Levi, Yossi and Jagger
THE HOURS d: Stephen Daldry
The Hours (2002)
Direction: Stephen Daldry
Screenplay: David Hare, from Michael Cunningham’s novel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins
Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (whose working title was "The Hours") as the link that binds its three leading female characters. Far apart in terms of time and space, those three disturbed, unhappy women have in common both the deadness of a life of self-abnegation and the living reality of death itself.
Despite gaps in the narrative, Stephen Daldry’s stabs at melodrama, and one poor central performance, The Hours stands as an intelligent and deeply moving achievement. Most [...]
by Andre Soares | October 21, 2004
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Tags: David Hare, Ed Harris, Film Reviews, Four-Star Gay Movies, Four-Star Movies, Four-Star Oscar Nominees, Gay Interest, Julianne Moore, Lesbian Interest, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Mrs. Dalloway, Nicole Kidman, Oscar 2002, Oscar Movies, Stephen Daldry, The Hours, Toni Collette, Virginia Woolf
