Man in an orange shirt
Man in an orange shirt
Not my cuppa, but a mate of mine is involved in this production, so I thought I'd promote it.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Man in an orange shirt
I suspect this will be an art house offering not opening in wide release. By what I've read it appears to have solid production values.Gob wrote:Anybody in SF looking for a good gay movie?
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I was somewhat uncomfortable viewing "Call Me By Your Name" so I doubt I'll be watching this. However, if I get a studio source code sent to me I may check it out online.
So you know, I'm a liberal and socially progressive kind of guy but I'm not an enthusiastic watcher of gay -- male or female -- love scenes. Hey, don't judge me. My archaic Roman Catholic upbringing always bubbles to the surface when I'm confronted with the visual mechanics of same sex love.
That said, everyone and everything gets a pass from me providing it's all consensual. Live and let live.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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I'm sure there are many...Anybody in SF looking for a good gay movie?
Me, I'm not much of a love story (let alone two love stories) movie kinda guy...Two connected love stories, set sixty years apart...
Gay, straight, extraterrestrial, cross species, doesn't really matter; just not a fan...
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Me too Jim. I nearly had a falling out with a gay mate over this, (the author's husband,) as I said it probably wouldn't be my cuppa. He thought I was saying taht as it was a gay love story, I had to disabuse him of that with the information that I couldn't care what gender, sexuality, species or genus those involved were, it was still a fucking love story. (No car chases in it as well FFS.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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That’s so peculiar because you both love talking about your own love stories! 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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The adage "The more things change, the more they stay the same" could be the subtext of the glorious new English film "Man in an Orange Shirt," which premiered at Frameline 42, was originally shown on BBC Two last year, broadcast on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre (and streamable for free through July 1) and is now available on DVD.
It was written by the gay English novelist Patrick Gale to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized homosexuality in Britain. Gale based his screenplay partially on his own family drama of his mother burning discovered love letters his father had received from another man. This heart-rending tale consists of two love stories, separated by 60 years, revealing how fraught sexual identity can be regardless of social progress.
The film begins during WWII in Italy when British Captain Michael Berryman (dreamy actor-model Oliver Jackson-Cohen) saves the life of the wounded Captain Thomas March (James McArdle), an official war artist. Michael realizes that he had gone to school with Thomas. He is engaged to his childhood sweetheart Flora (Joanna Vanderham), but while visiting Thomas in the hospital during his recuperation realizes he is attracted to him. In a great seduction line, the injured Thomas, while trying to pee, says to Michael, "It's bloody embarrassing, but I can't button my fly single-handedly," which leads to them kissing. Thomas asks Michael to look him up after the war is over. Michael locates Thomas in London, and they spend a passionate weekend together at Michael's rundown country cottage. Thomas sketches Michael for a painting that will become "Man in an Orange Shirt." Thomas wants them to be together, despite the fact that homosexuality in England was then illegal. Michael replies, "You didn't think we could set up home together like man and wife?" Instead, Michael invites Thomas to be his best man at his wedding to Flora. He reluctantly complies.
Continues...
http://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/dvd/ ... g.comments
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”