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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Does The Hunger count?
But The Hunger is only like 20 minutes long!
(Feel that burning gaze? That is Plei, glaring at me.)
But oh, the mention of The Hunger reminds me! A friend sent me a message on FB; he's friends and neighbors with the local (and vanished off the face of the planet) jeweler who made the silver replicas of the ankh from The Hunger waaaaay back when. I am getting a replacement sheath for my ankh dagger!
And now I want to watch the opening of The Hunger. Again. Peter Murphy in a cage! David Bowie as a vampire!
Like so many things, My Little Pony mania started on 4chan.
Unrelated to gay 80s cinema and My Little Pony...
If you like the end titles to A Series of Unfortunate Events as much as JZ and I do (we think they're the best of the last decade) then you'll enjoy this inside scoop on their creation.
I'd include Rocky Horror but I think it came out in '79.
I think Rocky Horror should count, because in my brain the category is more like, "Gay movies I watched in college."
I'd add Maurice and Law of Desire to the list.
Longtime Companion was a 90s movie, actually.
I'd include Rocky Horror but I think it came out in '79.
1979?! Not hardly. It's a product of its sexually androgynous glam rock early seventies era. The movie was '75; the original play was '73.
Oooh, look how it's all tied up with Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair:
Jim Sharman's success with the original Australian production of Jesus Christ Superstar led to an invitation to direct the first London stage production, and it was during the London run of Superstar that he met Richard O'Brien, who had played Herod for just one performance. O'Brien wished to play Herod as Elvis, but quit Superstar when the producers asked him to tap-dance. While unemployed, O'Brien worked on a new rock musical with a rough-draft title of "Rock Horroar."
While working together at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs on a production of Sam Shepard's The Unseen Hand, O'Brien played Sharman some of the songs he had written and they began to flesh out the concept for the show. Sharman brought in fellow Australians Nell Campbell, a.k.a. 'Little Nell,' and long-time production designer Brian Thomson, who had designed his productions of Hair and Superstar. Costume designer Sue Blane and musical director Richard Hartley rounded out the original creative team.
So pipe up with your favorite high school flicks.
I cannot believe that no one here mentioned My Bodyguard! That is definitely my favorite high school flick, and it has the first big roles for Adam Baldwin, Joan Cusack, and Matt Dillon, to boot. Plus George Wendt and Tim Kazurinsky in blink-and-you-miss-them walk-on roles.