BIG EDEN d: Thomas Bezucha
Big Eden (2001)
Direction and screenplay: Thomas Bezucha
Cast: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, Nan Martin, George Coe
Having perhaps watched way too many Frank Capra films while growing up, first-time writer-director Thomas Bezucha has come up with a drippy romantic fable — one bathed not in corn chowder but in maple syrup: Big Eden. In this overlong romantic comedy, every damn person in the small, picturesque Montana community of the title is kind-hearted, open-minded, politically correct, and utterly unreal. Worse yet, they are all, to one degree or another, matchmakers — and of a special kind. The whole community wants what is best for the two local gay men, Henry (Arye Gross), the prodigal [...]
by Andre Soares | January 7, 2006
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Tags: Arye Gross, Big Eden, Eric Schweig, Film Reviews, Gay Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Louise Fletcher, Nan Martin, Romantic Movies, Thomas Bezucha, Tim DeKay
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
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN d: Ang Lee
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Direction: Ang Lee
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; from E. Annie Proulx’s short story
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Kate Mara
Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama has won numerous awards, has been discussed all over the media, and has been labeled "groundbreaking" by numerous film critics. Of course, the fact that those critics’ knowledge of film history only goes as far back as Revenge of the Sith should not be held against Lee’s film. Yet, except for a few touching moments in its second half Brokeback Mountain fails to become fully involving chiefly because its central relationship — between a [...]
by Andre Soares | December 4, 2005
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Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Film Reviews, Gay Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Romantic Movies, Three-Star Gay Movies, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Westerns
