CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER in BEGINNERS dir. Mike Mills 

Future director Francis Lee goes to see Brokeback Mountain

What do you mean that’s not how it happened? :-)

*standing ovation*

This is too good, must share!

Films This Blog is Dedicated So Far

Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir.Luca Guadagnino

Holding The Man (2015) dir. Neil Armfield

Man in an Orange Shirt (2017) dir. Michael Samuels

God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee

The Normal Heart (2014) dir Ryan Murphy

Those People (2015) dir. Joey Kuhn

Brokeback Mountain (2006) dir. Ang Lee

4th Man Out (2015) dir Andrew Nackman

Before The Fall (2016) dir. Bryum Geisler

Reblog if you have watched and fell in love in any of these amazing films.

Since I read about how the ending of Tell it to the Bees was changed when the author wrote the book specifically as a push against the notion that women in love during that era could never be happy together, I wondered what she thought about the film adaptation of her novel. She makes it pretty clear.

What a crazy shame! It’s an incredibly beautiful movie but I don’t recommend it because of the downer ending. This makes *so* much more sense–it seems like the kind of story that should end well, but just doesn’t for…”reasons”. Apparently the “reasons” are heteronormativity lol and yikes.

Dito, @may-shepard. I watched in cinema, and have never watched it again. Or recced it to anyone else. Because it starts out as a great movie, with really important questions, but the ending? Not even sure if it’s a good one. I remember being more than irritated when the voice-over of the son started, and now, after reading the article, I understand and not understand it.

Straightwashing queer stories is the worst.

Favorite romantic w/w films of the decade

in alphabetical order

*bolded - female-directed

I’m sure he knows that a bit of “controversy” makes any project look more interesting, though. (x)

‘She never married and had various close friendships with women – however, there is no evidence that she was a lesbian’ [x]: Hullo, it was the 19thC, and have the ‘commentators’ never heard of the historical suppression of women’s (and especially poor women’s) sexuality and historical lesbian invisibility? Mary Anning’s orientation could have been anything, including lesbian.

Also, the ‘distant niece’* of Anning secondary-quoted in Pink News seems to want to slam a not-yet-made film from every possible angle: ‘the lesbian storyline is “pure Hollywood”’ (ha, she’s clearly never seen a Francis Lee film), but ‘if Mary Anning was gay she should be portrayed … by a gay actress’. As we all know, a blood relationship is an immediate qualification for knowing your ancestor’s sexuality: see also the descendants of T. E. Lawrence who persist in denial that TEL was, in his own words, ‘so funnily made up, sensually’ [x].

I'll have to look at this with time to really appreciate it.

Colette (2018) Review

Colette is a brilliantly acted engaging film about the  French novelist, actress, and journalist Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984.

As with most biographical films about interesting people large amounts of their lives had to be left out due to time constraints. The years are shown on-screen to show how much time has passed between events, but the film’s biggest weakness is in a few cases the viewer has to fill in what must of happened between the gaps in order for the characters and story to make sense.

The acting and chemistry between the actors is excellent and the backbone of the story. The film is largely about Colette’s relationships and how they impacted her writing. This isn’t necessarily a bad choice, but some viewers may have wished to see more of the Colette beyond her relationships.  Luckily we see more of Colette as an individual as the film progresses.

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Thanks for the tag! I know a little about the real/biographical Colette, but haven’t been able to see the film yet (it seems to have been ‘coming soon’ for so long…), so will save this to read later…

It's good. I liked it...

Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (gifset 1).

“It is a strange marriage we have at Merchant Ivory. I am an Indian Muslim, Ruth is a German Jew, and Jim is a Protestant [by birth, actually Catholic] American. Someone once described us as a three-headed god. Maybe they should have called us a three-headed monster!”

By Fariha Róisín, 28 May 2018

I’ve posted/linked to this before, but this sensitive, precise and personal essay on Merchant–Ivory–Jhabvala’s unique three-headed, four-decade, collaboration remains an excellent read.

It’s a chance in a thousand we met. You know it.

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

1/? posts in which I recreate some of my older/classic OPs which Tumblr recently decided to flag … while helpfully adding underwear so that the posts no longer ‘violate’ Tumblr’s sexist, discriminatory, irrational new guidelines.

James Wilby in Maurice (James Ivory, 1987). Originally made and posted for Maurice Boxing Day 2015, in which we follow the blond half of my OTP to ‘darkest Bermondsey’ to enjoy a spot of gentlemanly pummelling at the boxing gym.

Film classification facts: Maurice has been passed uncut by the British Board of Film Classification since its original 1987 release: initially with an AA certificate (deemed suitable for audiences aged 14 upwards), and with a 15 certificate under the current classification scheme.

Maurice with underpants.

Maurice “The Boathouse Kiss” 

Pride (2014) dir. Matthew Warchus

(Ivory’s shared this sequel headcanon before, notably in Robert Emmet Long, James Ivory in Conversation, 2005, p.217.)

Also included: a previously unfamiliar bonus still of Clive in ‘The Night Before Greece’ deleted scene.

Also also included … some RATHER exciting news.

Goodies! Thanks for this, I was in desperate need of something really good!