The Fruit Machine (aka Wonderland) is an ambitious, frustrating film. Two gay teens witness a murder and go on the lam. One falls in love with a sexy dolphin man. Things get weird.
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Patrick Wilde’s Get Real follows a teen writer who falls in love with a closeted jock. My guest had a rosier view of the romance in 1998 than he does now.
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Welcome to Season Two! Basil Deardon’s Victim pits a closeted barrister against a blackmailer. This was the first English language film to use the word “homosexual.” It bravely denounced the UK’s anti-gay laws. Today it remains a crackling noir with a heroic gay leading man, the likes we rarely see in cinema.
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Thank you for listening to Rainbow Colored Glasses. Season one concludes with a look at one of my favorite films: Beautiful Thing. Jonathan Harvey adapted the script from his hit stage play. It tells the story of Jamie, a working class teen in love with the boy next door. Linda Henry nearly steals the show as his brassy mother Sandra. It was a pleasure to share the movie with my guest.
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Blake Edwards co-wrote and directed this glamorous remake of the 1933 musical. Julie Andrews stars as a cis woman who performs as a female impersonator. The film has a lot to say about sexuality and gender roles. But at 2 hours and 14 minutes is it too much of a good thing? Let’s discuss.
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Foes to Friends to Lovers is a classic romcom formula. But what happens when the central couple never stops fighting? Dan Bucatinsky’s All Over the Guy pairs two men who make each other miserable in this sour romance.
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When Klaus makes a gay friend his mother panics. She breaks them up, with disastrous results. This German gay-sploitation film underwent many rewrites to please the censors. Bewildered Youth portrayed sympathetic gay characters long before Hollywood would dare to.
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Tom Gustafson’s musical began as a short film, Fairies, in 2003. He expanded it into the feature length Were the World Mine in 2008. The story sets Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a modern high school. Timothy, a bullied teen, casts a spell that makes his tormentors fall in love with people of the same sex. The film received mostly positive reviews and won several awards. My guest and I have mixed feelings about the work.
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Joe Mantello directed a remake of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band for Netflix last year. Eight gay men attend a birthday party. Things fall apart when a surprise guest arrives. I couldn’t help but compare the remake with the 1970 original. I decided to consult friends who were coming in to the story fresh.
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Greg Berlanti wanted The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy to showcase the gay men he wasn’t seeing represented in mainstream media. The starry cast plays a group of friends in West Hollywood. We discuss our favorite characters and analyze the film’s mixed messages about gay friendships.
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