Back To The LGBTQ Classic Movies With Dekkoo
Sometimes it's good to kick back and watch some classics after hard week work and here are some great suggestions.
Eating Out
2004 // USA
After getting dumped by his girlfriend, Caleb (Scott Lunsford) falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to a fib from Caleb’s roommate Kyle (‘American Idol’s’ Jim Verraros), Gwen thinks he’s gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc, whom Kyle happens to have a crush on. An outrageous comedy, ‘Eating Out’ was so beloved that it launched an on-going film franchise. This is the first movie of the series.
Director – Q. Allan Brocka
Starring – Scott Lunsford, Jim Verraros, Emily Stiles, Ryan Carnes
I’ll Love You Forever… Tonight
1993 – USA
Set in the late 1980s, this critically acclaimed indie classic from 1992 portrays a gritty side of gay life in Los Angeles. Ethan (Paul Marius), a 27-year-old photographer, believes he has no need for love or commitments, and is living his life amidst one-night stands. Ethan is coaxed by his “best buddy” Dennis (Jason Adams) into attending a reunion of college friends and lovers at a Palm Springs hideaway. What is supposed to be a restful vacation turns into a round of hard drinking and cruel sexual games. By the end of the “vacation,” Ethan feels a need for new friends and returns to Los Angeles. Confronting his troubled family life, he calls his father – who doesn’t want anything to do with him. In the end, Ethan realises that he can make his own “family” with friends who will accept each other without judgments.
Director – Edgar Michael Bravo
Starring – Paul Marius, Jason Adams, Thomas Jane, David Poynter
We Were One Man
1981 // France
Guy lives a simple life during World War II in a small farmhouse outside a sleepy village in France. When he stumbles across Rolf, an injured German soldier, Guy nurses him back to health. A passion stirs between the two young men. Their lives intertwine, each happy to be sheltered until the war asserts itself back into their lives. (subtitled)
Director – Philippe Vallois
Starring – Piotr Stanislas, Serge Avedikian
Fogi Is A Bastard
1998 // France, Switzerland
Fifteen-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a rock band. As Fögi seduces him, Beni is willing to follow him where ever he takes him. But Fögi is a drug addict and pulls Beni deeper and deeper into his addiction. (subtitled)
Director – Marcel Gisler
Starring – Frédéric Andrau, Vincent Branchet, Urs Peter Halter, Jean-Pierre Von Dach
Saturday Night At The Baths
1974 // USA
Virtually unseen since the mid-1970s, ‘Saturday Night at the Baths’ is an entertaining, sexy and provocative look at the gay life style during the post Stonewall, pre-AIDS period. Set in New York City with much of it filmed on location in the famous Continental Baths, this film is a classic time capsule of an era long gone by.
Director – David Buckley
Starring – Don Scotti, Ellen Sheppard, Robert Aberdeen, Jane Olivor
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