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The Gay Divorcee

December 24, 2013, 4:00 pm
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1934 American Feature

Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, William Austin and Betty Grable
Director: Mark Sandrich
Writers: Edward Kaufman, George Marion, Jr. and Dorothy Yost with Robert Benchley, H.W. Hanemann and Stanley Rauh (uncredited), based on the stage musical Gay Divorce by Cole Porter (music and lyrics), Dwight Taylor (book), Samuel Hoffenstein and Kenneth Webb (adaptation), based on the play An Adorable Adventure by J. Hartley Manners
Songs: Con Conrad, Mack Gordon, Herb Magidson, Cole Porter and Harry Revel

Synopsis:
Rich socialite Mimi Glossop wants a divorce, so her aunt hires a professional co-respondent as her supposed lover. Romantic complications ensue when Mimi mistakes charming dancer Guy Holden, who is smitten with her, for the gigolo.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 100% / Audience: 84%
  • OMG rating: 8 /10

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  • Academy Award for Best Original Song ("The Continental"); also nominated for Best Picture, Art Direction, Score and Sound Recording.

Notes/Trivia:
  • 1932's Gay Divorce was Fred Astaire's last Broadway show. In addition to Astaire, Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes reprised their stage roles in the film.
  • The stage version included songs by Cole Porter, but all but "Night and Day" were cut from the film.
  • The Hays Office insisted on the name change from Gay Divorce to The Gay Divorcee, believing that while a divorcee could be gay or lighthearted, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so.
  • Casting Call: Helen Broderick.
  • The second of ten movie musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
  • Winner of the first Oscar for Best Original Song.

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Happy Holidays

December 25, 2013, 4:00 pm
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2008 American Feature

Cast: Paul Hungerford, John B. Crye, Thomas Rhoads, Michael Emanuel and Bill Daly
Director: James Ferguson
Writers: James Ferguson and Tom Misuraca

Synopsis:
Three childhood friends — Jewish Alden, Catholic Kirby and gay Patrick — unexpectedly reunite in their Connecticut hometown right before Christmas.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 8.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Audience: 100%
  • Movie Dearest rating: B

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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

December 26, 2013, 4:00 pm
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2006 Malaysian/Taiwanese Feature
Alternate Title: Hei yan quan

Cast: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen and Norman Atun
Writer/Director: Ming-liang Tsai

Synopsis:
A homeless Chinese itinerant is attacked by thugs in Kuala Lampur, only to fall in with a group of kind but curious Bangladeshi men in the smog-soaked Malaysian capitol.

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  • Venice Film Festival Cinema for Peace Award.

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  • Kang-sheng Lee plays two roles: the homeless man and a brain-dead patient.
  • Banned by the Malaysian Censorship Board based on 18 counts of incidences in the film depicting the country "in a bad light" for cultural, ethical and racial reasons. However, they later allowed the film to be screened in the country after the filmmakers agreed to censor parts of the film according to the requirements of the Censorship Board.

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Alexander

December 27, 2013, 4:00 pm
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2004 German/American/Dutch/French/British/Italian Feature

Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Christopher Plummer
Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis

Synopsis:
The saga of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian conqueror legendary for his military prowess, but whose personal life included an unnatural relationship with his mother, a stormy marriage and a male lover, Hephaistion.

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  • GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film - Wide Release.

Notes/Trivia:
  • Alexander has been the subject of several biopics, including Alexander the Great (1941) starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Alexander the Great (1956) starring Richard Burton, Alexander the Great (1968, TV movie) starring William Shatner, Alexander the Great (1980) starring Omero Antonutti, The Search for Alexander the Great (1981, TV mini-series) starring Nicholas Clay, Alexander the Great (2006) starring Mark Adair-Rios and Young Alexander the Great (2010) starring Sam Heughan.
  • Based in part on the 1974 book Alexander the Great by University of Oxford historian Robin Lane Fox.
  • Director Baz Luhrmann was also preparing an Alexander the Great biopic starring Leonardo Dicaprio, but he dropped the idea when Oliver Stone announced this movie.
  • Casting Call: Sean Connery, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise, Heath Ledger, Liam Neeson and Brad Pitt.
  • Angelina Jolie played Colin Farrell's mother even though she is less than a year older than he is.
  • The cast deliberately speak with Irish accents as Colin Farrell was unable to lose his.
  • Director Oliver Stone makes a cameo appearance as a Macedonian general.
  • A group of Greek lawyers threatened to file a lawsuit over the film against Oliver Stone and Warner Brothers for what they claimed was an "inaccurate portrayal of history" by making reference to Alexander's bisexuality. After an advance screening of the film, the lawyers announced that they would not pursue any legal action.
  • Three versions of the film have been released: the initial theatrical cut (175 minutes), a "Director's Cut" in 2005 (17 minutes removed from the theatrical cut, with nine minutes added, for a total running time of 167 minutes) and Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut in 2007 (214 minutes).

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Rag Tag

December 28, 2013, 4:00 pm
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2006 British/Nigerian Feature

Cast: Daniel Parsons, Adedamola Adelaja, Tamsin Clarke, Geoffrey Aymer, Maria Adesioye, Enor Ewere, Chuma Oraedu and Ayo Fawole
Writer/Director: Adaora Nwandu

Synopsis:
Best friends from childhood, Raymond and Tagbo are separated for a decade. When they reunite, they find that the bond between them has become even stronger, although the divergent paths they've taken with their lives present a challenge.

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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

December 30, 2013, 4:00 pm
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2002 American Feature

Cast: Anjelica Huston, Diane Baker, Charles Busch, Ben Cooper, Christina Crawford, Judy Geeson, Virginia Grey, Anna Lee, Dickie Moore, Margaret O'Brien, Anita Page, Betsy Palmer, Cliff Robertson, Vincent Sherman, Liz Smith and Bob Thomas
Writer/Director: Peter Fitzgerald

Synopsis:
The life and career of Academy Award-winning screen legend Joan Crawford.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 6.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Audience: 82%
  • OMG rating: 7/10

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  • Included as a bonus feature on the Mildred Pierce DVD.

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The Poseidon Adventure

December 31, 2013, 4:00 pm
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1972 American Feature

Cast: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin and Leslie Nielsen
Directors: Ronald Neame and Irwin Allen (action sequences, uncredited)
Writers: Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes, based on the novel by Paul Gallico

Synopsis:
As the luxury ocean liner Poseidon charts its course on New Year's Eve, disaster strikes when an undersea earthquake causes a titanic tidal wave that capsizes the vessel, leaving just 10 survivors.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 79% / Audience: 75%
  • OMG rating: 8/10

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Awards:
  • Academy Awards for Best Original Song ("The Morning After") and Visual Effects (Special Achievement Award); also nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Winters), Cinematography, Art Direction, Costume Design, Original Score, Film Editing and Sound.
  • BAFTA Award for Best Actor (Hackman); also nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Winters).
  • Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (Winters); also nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Original Score and Original Song ("The Morning After").
  • Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Dialogue.

Notes/Trivia:
  • Paul Gallico's novel The Poseidon Adventure was first published in 1969.
  • Casting Call: Petula Clark, Sally Kellerman, George C. Scott, Gene Wilder and Esther Williams.
  • The #1 box office champ of 1973.
  • Followed by the 1979 sequel Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, a notorious flop.
  • In 2001, The Poseidon Adventure was ranked #90 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Thrills" list. 
  • Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical, a stage parody/homage, premiered in Chicago in 2002.
  • Remade for television in 2005 and again the following year as the theatrically released Poseidon. In the latter, Richard Dreyfuss played a suicidal gay man.
  • Listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made".

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January 1, 2014, 10:00 am
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The Sound of Music

January 2, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1965 American Feature

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath and Daniel Truhitte
Director: Robert Wise
Writer: Ernest Lehman, based on the stage musical libretto by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay, based on the autobiography The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp
Songs: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Synopsis:
Young postulant Maria leaves an Austrian convent to become governess to the seven children of widower Captain Von Trapp.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 85% / Audience: 91%
  • OMG rating: 9/10

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Awards:
  • Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Scoring of Music - Adaptation or Treatment, Film Editing and Sound; also nominated for Best Actress (Andrews), Supporting Actress (Wood), Color Cinematography, Color Art Direction and Color Costume Design.
  • American Cinema Editor Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film.
  • BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actress (Andrews).
  • David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (Andrews).
  • Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.
  • Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy and Actress - Musical/Comedy (Andrews); also nominated for Best Director and Supporting Actress (Wood).
  • Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.

Notes/Trivia:
  • Maria von Trapp's memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, was first published in 1949. It was previously adapted for the screen as the 1956 West German film Die Trapp-Familie (The Trapp Family). A sequel, Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (The Trapp Family in America), was released two years later. Von Trapp has a cameo in this film during the "I Have Confidence" number.
  • The original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actress. It was Oscar Hammerstein II's last musical. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then, including the first national tour starring Florence Henderson, a 1981 London production starring Petula Clark and a Broadway remounting in 1998 starring Rebecca Luker and Richard Chamberlain. Andrew Lloyd Webber produced a 2006 London revival which cast its lead via the TV talent show How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?.
  • Three songs from the stage musical ("How Can Love Survive", "No Way to Stop It" and "An Ordinary Couple") were cut for the film. The songs "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good" (which replaced "An Ordinary Couple" as Maria and the Captain's love song) were written specifically for the film by Richard Rodgers. The two numbers became so popular that they have been added to most subsequent stage productions.
  • Potential Directors: Stanley Donen, George Roy Hill, Gene Kelly and William Wyler.
  • Casting Call: Fred Astaire, Anne Bancroft, Yul Brynner, Richard Burton, Leslie Caron, Veronica Cartwright, Geraldine Chaplin, Sean Connery, Bing Crosby, Kim Darby, Doris Day, Patty Duke, Richard Dreyfuss, Mia Farrow, Peter Finch, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Jones, Grace Kelly, Jeanette MacDonald, Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Kurt Russell, Sharon Tate, Lesley Ann Warren and the four eldest Osmond Brothers.
  • The house that was used as the Von Trapp home was actually owned by actress Hedy Lamarr.
  • Upon its initial release, The Sound of Music briefly displaced Gone With the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. It is credited as the film that saved 20th Century Fox following the extreme financial losses incurred by 1963's Cleopatra that almost bankrupted the studio. Taking re-releases into account, it ultimately grossed $286 million internationally. Adjusted to contemporary prices it is the third highest-grossing film of all-time at the North American box office and the fifth highest-grossing film worldwide.
  • The soundtrack album on the RCA Victor label has sold over 11 million copies worldwide and has never been out of print. It was Grammy Award nominated for Album of the Year.
  • Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on the film. He's been known to refer to it as "The Sound of Mucus" or "S&M", and likened working with Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nontheless, he and Andrews have remained close friends ever since.
  • The Mother Abbess' oft-misheard line to Maria, "What is it you can't face?", has become an infamous meme in recent years.
  • "Sing-A-Long"Sound of Music revival screenings began in London in the late 1990s, where the audience was encouraged to sing along to lyrics superimposed on the screen. Following a successful run there, the screenings began a hit run in New York in 2000. Audiences dress in costumes based on characters (nuns, Nazis) and even song lyrics (such as "Lonely Goat Herds" and "Brown Paper Packages Tied Up in Strings") and compete in costume contests at the screenings. The revival continues to tour globally.
  • Every year starting in 2005, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles holds its own Sound of Music"sing-a-long". The real Von Trapp children and the actors who played them in the film have made appearances at the event. Fondly called "The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Prozac", the event has sold out every year since its inception. A Hollywood Bowl "sing-a-long" screening is featured as an extra on the film's two-disc DVD.
  • The "Sing-A-Long"Sound of Music was the setting of a memorable 2006 eighth season episode of Will & Grace titled "Von Trapped".
  • In 1998, The Sound of Music was ranked #55 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Movies" list.
  • In 2001, The Sound of Music was inducted into the National Film Registry.
  • In 2002, The Sound of Music was ranked #27 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Passions" list.
  • In 2004, "The Sound of Music" was ranked #10, "My Favorite Things" was ranked #64 and "Do Re Mi" was ranked #88 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Songs" list.
  • In 2006, The Sound of Music was ranked #41 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Cheers" list.
  • In 2006, The Sound of Music was ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's Greatest Movie Musicals list.
  • In 2007, The Sound of Music was ranked #40 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition" list.
  • Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan brought The Sound of Music Live! to NBC in 2013. The live telecast, starring Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Laura Benanti, Christian Borle and Audra McDonald, was a direct adaptation of the original stage musical and not a remake of the film (although, like the film version, "Something Good" replaced "An Ordinary Couple"). Due to its success in the ratings, NBC signed Zadan and Meron to produce more live presentations of popular stage musicals for the network in the future.

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Sex and the City

January 3, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2008 American Feature
Alternate Title: Sex and the City: The Movie

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, Willie Garson and Candice Bergen
Writer/Director: Michael Patrick King, based on the television series created by Darren Star and the book by Candace Bushnell

Synopsis:
The fabulous lives of New York City columnist Carrie Bradshaw and her best friends Samantha Jones, Charlotte York and Miranda Hobbes continue.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 5.3/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 49% / Audience: 77%
  • Metacritic - Critics: 53% / Audience: 6.3%
  • OMG rating: 9/10

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  • The 1997 book Sex and the City was an anthology of columns that Candace Bushnell began writing in 1994 for The New York Observer.
  • The book was loosely adapted into the popular HBO television series Sex and the City, which ran for six season from 1998 to 2004. During its run, the series won a total of ten Golden Globe Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and a GLAAD Media Award.
  • The entire cast of the television series returned for the movie, which also included cameo appearances by Malcolm Gets, Joanna Gleason, Julie Halston, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Vogue's André Leon Talley and Gilles Marini in his breakthrough role as Samantha's sexy Los Angeles neighbor.
  • Casting Call: Beyoncé Knowles and Kelly Rowland.
  • The Carrie Diaries, Candace Bushnell's prequel novel centering on a teenage Carrie Bradshaw, was published in 2010 and later adapted into a 2013 TV series on The CW. A sequel, Summer and the City, which added the characters Samantha Jones and Miranda Hobbes, followed in 2011.

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  • Followed by the sequel Sex and the City 2.

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Kiss Me Deadly

January 4, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2008 American/German Television Movie
Alternate Title: Kiss Me Deadly: A Jacob Keane Assignment

Cast: Robert Gant, Shannen Doherty, Fraser Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Nathan Whitaker, Katherine Kennard, Alessandra Muir, Matthew Sunderland and Ian Roberts
Director: Ron Oliver
Writers: Frank Cardea and George Schenck

Synopsis:
Ex-spy Jacob Keane is drawn back into the shadowy world of international espionage when his former partner reappears after 17 years, her memory erased and on the run from a pair of deadly, psychopathic assassins.

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  • Here! TV originally planned a franchise centered around gay spy Jacob Keane, but to date no second installment has been produced.

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

January 5, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2006 American Feature

Cast: Allison Anders, David Ansen, Darren Aronofsky, Jamie Babbit, Maria Bello, Kirby Dick, Atom Egoyan, Kimberly Peirce, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone and John Waters
Director: Kirby Dick
Writers: Kirby Dick, Matt Patterson and Eddie Schmidt

Synopsis:
An exposé of the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 84% / Audience: 80%
  • Metacritic - Critics: 75% / Audience: 7.5%
  • OMG rating: 6 /10

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  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
  • GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary.

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  • The MPAA gave the original cut of This Film Is Not Yet Rated an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content"– ironically, scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Director Kirby Dick appealed the rating, and the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the final version of the documentary, which is itself not rated.
  • Among the issues in the rating system examined in the film is the discrepancies in the ratings applied between films with homosexual and heterosexual content and between films containing male and female nudity.

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Written on the Wind

January 6, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1956 American Feature

Cast: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Harry Shannon, Edward Platt and Robert J. Wilke
Director: Douglas Sirk
Writer: George Zuckerman, based on the novel by Robert Wilder

Synopsis:
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries Lucy Moore, the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend Mitch Wayne, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister Marylee.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 81% / Audience: 75%
  • OMG rating: 7/10

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  • Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Malone); also nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Stack) and Original Song ("Written on the Wind").
  • Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Malone).

Notes/Trivia:
  • Robert Wilder's 1945 novel of Written on the Wind was a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. Screenwriter George Zuckerman shifted the locale from North Carolina to Texas, made the source of the family wealth oil rather than tobacco, and changed all the character names.
  • This was the sixth of eight films Douglas Sirk made with Rock Hudson, and the most successful. Sirk reunited key cast members Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone two years later in The Tarnished Angels.
  • Douglas Sirk wanted it to be stated that Kyle Hadley was gay in the film. However this could not be mentioned directly due to the Hay's Code. Nevertheless it is still implied that Hadley is secretly in love with Mitch Wayne.
  • One of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's favorite films; he referenced it frequently in his own work. 
  • Written on the Wind was released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection in 2001.

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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

January 7, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1997 American Feature

Cast: Dan Butler
Director: Mark Rappaport

Synopsis:
A peek inside the closet of Hollywood's golden age reveals a treasure trove of homoerotic and subliminally gay moments.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 6.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Audience: 25%
  • OMG rating: 6/10

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Sebastiane

January 8, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1976 British Feature

Cast: Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham, Daevid Finbar, Ken Hicks, Lindsay Kemp, Steffano Massari and Janusz Romanov
Directors: Paul Humfress and Derek Jarman
Writers: Paul Humfress, Derek Jarman, James Whaley and Jack Welch (Latin translation)

Synopsis:
300 AD: the Roman Sebastianus is exiled to a remote outpost populated exclusively by men who, weakened by their desires, turn to each other to satisfy their carnal needs.

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  • Internet Movie Database: 6.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 100% / Audience: 57%

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  • The martyred Christian saint Sebastian, commonly depicted in art and literature tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, is commonly (and controversially) referred to as a gay male icon.
  • Feature film debut of director Derek Jarman.
  • All the dialogue in the film is spoken in Latin. It is the only English film to have been released in Britain with English subtitles.
  • When asked about the film's nudity, director Derek Jarman replied, "We couldn't afford costumes". 
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show alum Nell Campbell, Peter Hinwood and Patricia Quinn cameo in the film as guests of the Emperor.

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Making the Boys

January 9, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2011 American Feature

Cast: Edward Albee, Candis Cayne, Andy Cohen, Mart Crowley, Michael Cunningham, Dominick Dunne, David Ehrenstein, William Friedkin, Cheyenne Jackson, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Larry Kramer, Carson Kressley, Tony Kushner, Laurence Luckinbill, Terrence McNally, Michael Musto, Paul Rudnick, Dan Savage, Marc Shaiman, Robert Wagner, Peter White and Scott Wittman
Director: Crayton Robey

Synopsis:
A retrospective look at the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of The Boys in the Band, the first gay-themed play and subsequent Hollywood movie to successfully reach a mainstream audience.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 95% / Audience: 77%
  • Metacritic - Critics: 71%
  • OMG rating: 8/10
  • Movie Dearest rating: B+

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  • Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Dorian Award nomination for LGBT-Themed Documentary of the Year.

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Boys on the Side

January 10, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1995 American Feature

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey, James Remar, Billy Wirth, Anita Gillette, Dennis Boutsikaris and Estelle Parsons
Director: Herbert Ross
Writer: Don Roos

Synopsis:
An unlikely trio — a lesbian night club singer, an HIV positive woman and a pregnant girl — take a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles.

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  • GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film.

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The Other Side of Aspen

January 11, 2014, 4:00 pm
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1983 American Feature

Cast: Casey Donovan, Al Parker, Dick Fisk, Jeff Turk and Chad Benson
Writer/Director: Colin Myer

Synopsis:
As Jeff recalls his time as a ski instructor in Aspen, Colorado, his sexy recollections come to life.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10

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Awards:
  • GayVN Award for Best Classic Gay DVD.
  • Grabby Award for Best Classic Video.

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  • One of the best-selling gay adult film franchises in history, to date it has spawned five direct-to-video sequels: The Other Side of Aspen II (1985), The Other Side of Aspen 3: Snowbound (1995), The Other Side of Aspen 4: The Rescue (1995), The Other Side of Aspen 5 (2001) and The Other Side of Aspen VI (2011).

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

January 13, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2012 American Feature

Cast: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Paul Rudd, Nina Dobrev, Johnny Simmons, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Lynskey and Joan Cusack
Writer/Director: Stephen Chbosky, based on his novel

Synopsis:
Charlie, a shy freshman struggling with his best friend's suicide, is taken under the wings of two misfit seniors who welcome him to the real world.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes - Critics: 85% / Audience: 89%
  • Metacritic - Critics: 67% / Audience: 8.4%
  • OMG rating: 8/10
  • Movie Dearest rating: B+

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Awards:
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nominations for Best Young Actor/Actress (Lerman) and Adapted Screenplay.
  • Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Dorian Award nomination for LGBT-Themed Film of the Year.
  • GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film - Wide Release.
  • Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. 
  • Movie Dearest Award Honorable Mention for Movie of the Year.
  • Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Notes/Trivia:
  • Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, first published in 1999, spent over a year on the New York Times Bestseller list and is published in 31 languages.
  • Potential Director: John Hughes.
  • Casting Call: Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Fugit and Shia LaBeouf.
  • Shop teacher Mr. Callahan is played by celebrated movie makeup artist Tom Savini.

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Here's Looking at You, Boy

January 14, 2014, 4:00 pm
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2007 German/Dutch/Finnish/Australian Feature
Alternate Title: Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner

Cast: Q. Allan Brocka, Craig Chester, Alonso Duralde, Rob Epstein, Stephen Frears, Jeffrey Friedman, Marc Huestis, Maren Kroymann, Angelina Maccarone, Onir, Rosa von Praunheim, Wieland Speck, Tilda Swinton, Guinevere Turner, Gus Van Sant and John Waters
Writer/Director: André Schäfer

Synopsis:
The history of gay and lesbian film.

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Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10

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