Philadelphia: 10th Anniversary Edition
 Amazon.com Essential Video: Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that [... more]
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24th Day
10 stars: Wow. Just finished watching the dvd and am stunned by it. Two spectacular performances, one incredible script, finally a movie with a gay characters and a gay theme that has the guts to ask big questions. No cutesy humour here. No 'offbeat but [... more]
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Before Night Falls (Widescreen)
Transports You: "Before Night Falls" recounts the incredible life of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, played with great sensitivity by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. Born a peasant in the 1930's, Arenas had the great misfortune of being a [... more]
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A River Made to Drown In
Love, sex and death in the 90's: For reasons unknown to me, director James Merendino signed this film as Allen Smithee, a usual sign of discomfort with the final product, or meaning a clash between producers and director. Although producer Jon Powell [... more]
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Yesterday
From Amazon.com: As beautiful as it is heartbreaking, the Oscar®-nominated drama Yesterday brings an intimate human perspective to the AIDS crisis in Africa. On the surface, it's a harsh and devastating story about bad things happening to good people, [... more]
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Close To Leo
We Are Family: CLOSE TO LEO as written and directed by Christophe Honore is one of the most sensitive, warmly human stories to be captured on film in recent years. This small but very touching film radiates the beauty that can be found in families [... more]
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Man I Love
About the dvd: It seems nobody wrote about the dvd edition, so that's my main point here. Well, the image is 1.78 non-anamorphic, but it's a very good transfer. The colors are very nice and it's quite sharp, perhaps a little diffuse, but very slightly, [... more]
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Parting Glances
Amazon.com Essential Video: The late Bill Sherwood's quiet little 1986 feature film about the early days of AIDS has held up remarkably well, and it still seems much smarter and less sentimental than higher-profile "AIDS movies" such as [... more]
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Poison (Full Screen)
Three Cerebrally Interjecting Stories...: Haynes attempts to present a concept through three different stories or perspectives, "Hero", "Horror", and "Homo". The three stories interject one another in crucial moments leaving [... more]
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Our Sons
Actor: Julie Andrews Actor: Ann-Margret Actor: Elizabeth Austin Actor: Hal England Actor: Hugh Grant Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD Director: John Erman EAN: 9781554443000 Format: NTSC ISBN: 1554443008 MPN: 1728 Release Date: 2008-02-08 Theatrical [... more]
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And the Band Played On
Amazon.com Essential Video: A superior, made-for-cable film, this Home Box Office adaptation of Randy Shilts's chronicle detailing the emergence of AIDS in America and the fight against bureaucracy and society for a cure is a taut, outrageous, and [... more]
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Longtime Companion (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: The late director Norman Rene and writer Craig Lucas made a pretty fine creative team on the stage and in the movies, and this 1990 drama about the evolving impact of AIDS on gay New Yorkers is their best cinematic achievement. [... more]
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