Recently Added Films

	Date Added/ Length	Ratigs IMDB/ MY	Genre/ Tags	Plot	Notes
Salome Details	6/1/2020 6:06:02 AM/ 101 mins	8.5 9	Drama; Music; Opera opera	Salome is Oscar Wilde’s twist on the biblical story of Herod, Herodias, and Salome. The story tells of a lovely young girl Salome, her step-father Herod’s obsession with her, and Salome’s infatuation with the prophet John the Baptist (Jokanaan). This hypersexualized story and grim-fated heroine have outraged and intrigued audiences for the last century. Salome’s infamous “dance of the seven veils,” a seductive dance for her step-father, is one of the opera’s most famous musical moments, even though it has angered probably just about as many people as it has pleased.	Terrific!! I'm embarrassed to say: I expected the dance to bit more erotic, and the kiss to be a bit more gory. But this comment says more about me than the performance. Great cinematography. Bible Mark 6:17-29 (Oremus) Bible Matthew 14:3-11 (Oremus) Bible Gateway: "A Wicked Birthday Party: The Story of Herodias and Salome" [Jonathan Petersen August 24, 2015] Wikipedia
It's Still Your Bed Details	6/1/2020 1:18:19 PM/ 17 mins	7.1 6	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance; Short	David comes home from college to his family’s farm to find that his parents have hired a young man named Brent, who is also sharing his room. David is still in the closet and wants to come out to his high school friend, but he finds himself drawn to his new roommate and tries to determine if he is also gay.	A pleasant little fantasy.
Your Heart Is Homeless Details	6/5/2020 3:42:52 PM/ 12 mins		Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Carl, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality, meets James for a one night stand.
Welcome To The Usa Details	6/5/2020 4:11:11 PM/		Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	ALIYA is a 36-year-old Kazakh lesbian woman. Aliya for the first time in her life tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On the one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other hand, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) Details	6/5/2020 4:16:07 PM/ 120 mins	8.1	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance lesbian	On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Before Homosexuals Details	6/5/2020 9:49:52 PM/ 87 mins	6.3	Documentary; History; Queer Themes/Interest heritage; history	"Before Homosexuals" is a prelude to the award-winning films, "Before Stonewall" and "After Stonewall", and together will form a trilogy. This trilogy will improve understanding and respect, while decreasing intolerance, discrimination, and violence towards gays and lesbians worldwide through proving the hypothesis that gays and lesbians have always existed in every culture throughout history and have made some of the most beautiful and powerful contributions to human history and art.
Salome Details	6/6/2020 11:38:46 AM/	None 7	Drama; Music; Opera opera	Salome is Oscar Wilde’s twist on the biblical story of Herod, Herodias, and Salome. The story tells of a lovely young girl Salome, her step-father Herod’s obsession with her, and Salome’s infatuation with the prophet John the Baptist (Jokanaan). This hypersexualized story and grim-fated heroine have outraged and intrigued audiences for the last century. Salome’s infamous “dance of the seven veils,” a seductive dance for her step-father, is one of the opera’s most famous musical moments, even though it has angered probably just about as many people as it has pleased.	Bible Mark 6:17-29 (Oremus) Bible Matthew 14:3-11 (Oremus) Bible Gateway: "A Wicked Birthday Party: The Story of Herodias and Salome" [Jonathan Petersen August 24, 2015] Wikipedia A spoiled 16 year old teenage princess with raging sexual hormones vs dramatic sopr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr2IiwreQ64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Jhjv-76BM
A Reunion Details	6/12/2020 9:19:30 PM/ 80 mins	5.3	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance	Two estranged friends travel across the country to attend their college reunion, and face their complicated past along the road.
Daddy's Boy Details	6/12/2020 9:23:10 PM/ 78 mins	3.6	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest	In front of the hot lights of a porn set and behind the closed doors of a burlesque studio, four young men leave boyhood behind and end up shedding more than just their clothes and inhibitions.
Spectrum Details	6/13/2020 1:48:36 PM/ 37 mins		Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	A diverse array of lives intersect over one night in Manchester's gay village.
The Dead Boys' Club Details	6/13/2020 2:01:54 PM/ 25 mins	6.5	Comedy; Drama; Fantasy; Queer Themes/Interest; Short heritage; HIV/AIDS	It's the 1990s. Toby, just out of college in Wisconsin, comes to Manhattan to spend the summer with his older cousin, Packard, a gay man whose lover John R. has just died of AIDS. Toby is shy, the openly-gay society around him makes him nervous. Packard gives Toby a pair of John R.'s shoes; when Toby puts them on, he has powerful visions of the pre-AIDS scene in the 1970s, as if he's there. He also takes on a different personality when he wears the shoes, more sure of himself, able to express his interest in men. Wearing the shoes, Toby goes to a bar, hooks up with Dick, and wakes up in Dick's bed. How will he handle it? And what will happen to the shoes?
Twilight Kiss (Suk Suk) Details	6/13/2020 2:21:33 PM/ 92 mins	7.3	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest elder	Two men who enter the twilight years of their lives meet by chance. A taxi driver Park lives with his daughter and wife. Hoi lives with his son′s family peaceful, hiding his sexual orientation, but after the accidental meeting, he realizes his inner passion.	Frameline
Engaged Details	6/15/2020 9:22:45 PM/ 17 mins	7.2 7	Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Darren keeps trying - and failing - to propose to his boyfriend Elliot. When their relationship is called into an uncomfortable spotlight during someone else's outrageous engagement party, Darren realizes he actually might be self-sabotaging himself due to unresolved insecurities about his sexuality.
Pepitas Details	6/15/2020 9:59:15 PM/	7	Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	In the short film "Pepita's", Lino is a young grandson who secretly dresses as a Drag Queen at night, until one evening he can no longer hide it from his grandmother, Ariella Reggio. How is she going to take it?	Well done. Viewed in Italian without captions. English not necessary.
Shy Guys Details	6/15/2020 10:40:17 PM/ 9 mins	7.9 7	Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Two strangers bravely confront and resolve one of the most terrifying and perplexing scourges to ever afflict mankind… all while standing at neighboring urinals.
Blue Details	6/18/2020 9:57:36 PM/	NF	Music; Opera Black Lives Matter
The Shiny Shrimps (Les crevettes pailletées) Details	6/21/2020 2:52:00 PM/ 100 mins	6.5 4	Comedy; Queer Themes/Interest sports	Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international LGBT athletes compete. It's the start of a bumpy and joyful ride - Faster, Higher, Stronger.	Much disappointed. Given the subject matter, and the film's PR, I had expected a somewhat outrageous campy French comedy. It was not especially funny. And I never had much empathy for any of the cast. It was so tedious at times I almost turned it off. Whilst the directors attempted to bring in French queer politics, it never came across to me in a way that I had even an inkling as to what the conflict was about. There was almost no character development. I had a fair amount of difficulty purchasing the dvd - first in locating a seller (England), then with a very long delivery time (Royal Mail, second class.) And ironically I ended up with two copies of a film I didn't much like..
Disclosure: Trans Lives On Screen Details	6/21/2020 9:11:33 PM/ 100 mins	8.2 6	Documentary; Queer Themes/Interest transgender	An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.	Their theory is probably true (film reality is rarely a reflection of our realities), but the film didn't provide for me a convincing storyline. I'm probably too old.
Queer Butoh 2020 Details	6/22/2020 11:33:55 AM/	NF	Dance; Queer Themes/Interest Buroh dance	In celebration of Pride 2020, Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute in collaboration with Howl Arts presents Queer Butoh 2020 (VIRTUAL).— the works of Mee Ae, Dustin Maxwell, Davey Mitchell and Scoop Slone on Howl TV. Queer Butoh is dedicated to the memory of Brian Butterick aka Hattie Hathaway. Queer Butoh continues June 24–28 on vimeo.com/vangeline and howlarts.org. “Butoh is essentially the dance of the marginalized, and the LGBTQ population is still largely marginalized in the world,” says Vangeline, curator of this series. “This year, despite obvious challenges, it is particularly important to find ways to celebrate our LGBTQ artists for the 50th-anniversary celebration of Pride.”
Love Me Like You Should : Details	6/25/2020 10:43:08 PM/	NF 8	Documentary; Music; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	Disco icon Sylvester’s ground-breaking career is the subject of a compelling new mini-documentary Love Me Like You Should: The Brave and Bold Sylvester, produced for Pride 2020 by Amazon Music in collaboration with filmmaker Lauren Tabak and writer/consulting producer Barry Walters. In Love Me Like You Should, Sylvester’s story comes to life once more and the true extent of his impact—inside and out of the music industry—is explored. The filmmakers also incorporate interviews with Billy Porter, The Weather Girls’ Martha Wash, Sylvester’s sister Bernadette Baldwin, biographer Josh Gamson and many others, too.
Hamilton Details	6/25/2020 11:39:03 PM/	9.1	Biography; Drama; History; Musical	The live stage recording of the 2015 Broadway production of Hamilton.
Victor And Victoria Details	6/26/2020 12:29:05 PM/ 99 mins	6.8	Comedy; Musical; Queer Themes/Interest heritage	Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick colleague, the slap-stick actor Viktor, at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works as a female impersonator. By chance, Susanne is then "discovered" by an agent, who thinks she′s really a man. She becomes famous and goes on tour to London. But when the local womanizer Robert catches on to her game, Viktor then has to jump in for Susanne as "Viktoria".
Michael Details	6/26/2020 12:35:45 PM/ 93 mins	7.1	Drama; Queer Themes/Interest; Romance heritage	A famed artist fights his passion for a male model, until the young man falls for a woman.
Denise Ho - Becoming The Song Details	6/26/2020 9:21:06 PM/ 83 mins		Documentary; Musical; Queer Themes/Interest	This timely documentary explores the singer's remarkable journey from Cantopop superstar to outspoken political activist, putting her life and career on the line in support of HongKonger's struggle to maintain their political freedom.
House Of Air Details	6/26/2020 9:29:07 PM/ 4 mins	6.1 8	Adult; Comedy; Music; Queer Themes/Interest; Short	An anthropological study (umm) of gay semiotics, taxonomies, and sexual behaviours. YouTube didn’t ban this ‘mature’ queer video until after it had clocked up over a million hits. It was, as you can imagine, the subject of intense online debate before making it onto numerous best of 2017 lists. [QueerGuru]	Vimeo (behind the scenes) Vimeo (Full Film)
The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me Details	6/26/2020 10:03:34 PM/ 81 mins	5.0	Comedy; Drama; Queer Themes/Interest heritage	From the late-night club crawl to the buff-bunny gyms, from the threat of anti-gay violence to the place where condemnation, compromises and closets are a thing of the past, the film exposes the sexual, spiritual and political yearnings at the heart of gay America.	The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me June 28, 2020 at 7 PM ET to benefit Provincetown Theater.The stream will be available at PROVINCETOWNTHEATER.ORG and on YOUTUBE.
Equation To An Unknown (Équation à un inconnu) Details	6/27/2020 11:26:48 AM/ 94 mins	8.4 7	Adult; Drama; Erotica; Experimental/Avant-Garde; Queer Themes/Interest Cult; porn	Melancholic and hardcore fantasies of a lonely dreamer. Though it’s difficult to be turned on by images so drenched in sorrow, Equation to an Unknown is, overall, a peculiar erotic film about the crushing desire for affection of a young man who believes sex is the only method of connecting with people. [Art House Street]	Our hero makes a languid cruise of the city's hot spots picking up sex with other man-boys. They really all look to be clones with the same hair and pubic bushes (long before our modern vogue of manscaping). While the film has its erotic sequences, it is not porn - that is, it does not seem to be designed to produce an arousal response. I would not call Equation to an Unknown representational of 1980's gay porn. Perhaps Savel's thrust is that sex is not a path to "happiness," "contentment" - the "unknown?" Besides it's exhausting.
Scottish Ballet: The Rite of Spring Details	6/28/2020 11:49:51 PM/ 37 mins	NF 9	Ballet/Dance; Music; Short	Following a critically acclaimed UK tour, Christopher Hampson's The Rite of Spring is now available worldwide. This performance was filmed at The Festival Theatre, Edinburgh in October 2020	"Christopher Hampson’s take is different to many – out go all the [traditional Rite of Spring] tribal shenanigans and in comes a story of 2 brothers, one turning to religion and the other the army, eventually tasked with interrogating the younger brother. Fluttering through is an angel of life and death who tantalisingly appears to the religious brother, and supports him in his hour of need. The dancing for the brothers (grittily portrayed by Christopher Harrison and Constant Vigier) is brutal and totally committed...." [DanceTabs]
The Thing About Harry Details	6/30/2020 5:07:24 PM/ 85 mins	7.1 5	Comedy; Drama; Romance	Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.	Richard watched this on late night TV. This cliche film started fairly strong. It went sour as Valentine's Day approached. He eventually turned it off and went to bed.