Peter Finch as the gay Jewish doctor Daniel Hirsch was brilliant and nominated for Best Actor.
HOMEMADE OLDER GAY MEN MOVIES MOVIE
" regarding John Schlesinger's great 1971film "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." Hello? In 1971 that movie was considered practically seditious for presenting thoughtfully a story of a menage a trois of two men, one gay & one bisexual, and a woman. Yeah, this is an excellent listing by IMDB, although I really take issue with their nose-in-the-air sniff, "A bit dull, but. But try to see "For a Lost Soldier." I think you can stream it on either Amazon or NetFlix. Many great Dutch films at that time: Spetters, Soldier of Orange. Krabbe, Smit and Kelly are all wonderful.
The scene where the young soldier finally makes love to the boy - physically - is one of the most electrifying moments I've ever experienced in movies - really, I've got goosebumps writing this - but the whole story and its difficult subject is told simply and clearly, without judgement. The boy was played by a young actor named Andrew Kelly. As a young soldier, Dutch actor Maarten Smit played Krabbe's character. Directed by Roeland Kerbosch, the film introduced to wider audiences the great Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe, who played the soldier in later years, coming back to look at the town where he had known the boy - and to remember. Omg! I thought I was the only other person who saw that incredible film. The average demographic profile of a member in 2005 had been: white, male, in his early 50's. The AMPAAS had vastly expanded its membership in the previous 3 years to include more people of color and women, generally younger, too. He enrolls in LaGuardia Performing Arts High School and nine years later, in 2017, Timothee stars in "Call Me By Your Name," and - well, wtf, you know?Īlso, as you probably know, the 2016 Best Picture Oscar goes to "Moonlight," about three stages in the growing up of a young gay black man in Miami. In a NYC theater in 2008 watching Ledger's performance and deciding right then and there that he wanted to be an actor as good as Ledger was 13-year-old Timothee Chalamet.
Here's the weird twistie - Heath Ledger doesn't win best actor as Ennis Del Mar, gay cowboy, but he next makes "The Dark Knight" and for his performance as the murderous psychotic The Joker wins 2008's Best Supporting Actor Oscar - after his tragic death from drug OD. So the award went to a second rate thing called "Crash," which most people had forgotten about by the next morning. The same way that everybody knew 2005's "Brokeback Mountain" was the best film that year - hell, Ang Lee won the Oscar for Best Director for it, it won best screenplay - but since the entire membership votes for Best Picture, as opposed to individual craft groups or unions in other categories, there was no way all the electricians and carpenters were going to vote for a gay cowboy movie as Best Picture. Instead, he got the Oscar the following year 2010 for "The King's Speech," playing King George V. Directed by fashion designer Tom Ford with pitch-perfect pacing and tone a wonderful supporting performance by Timothy Hoult - and Colin Firth should have won the Oscar for his performance, but it was still noHomo Hollywood (including characters portrayed) - so he didn't.
Agree completely, became one of my favorite films of 2009.