VIP Fave Q Movie Pick
Where we ask today’s hottest queer and queer-friendly filmmakers, stars and community leaders to answer the question:
“One of my favorite LGBT movies is...”
Darren Stein (PUT THE CAMERA ON ME)
“My favorite LGBT film is PRICK UP YOUR EARS–the story of the tumultuous relationship between acerbic British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) and his lover Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). I was in high school when the film was released, dealing with my own sexuality and how to hide it. It blew me away to see a film treat homosexuality so matter of factly. Orton prowled the streets for sex in 1960s England, a time when homosexuality was a crime, while Halliwell stayed at home in self-imposed domestic exile. In one scene, they go out prowling together, with Orton “sharing” one of his catches with Kenneth. They engage in a three-way kiss in that scene that I still find incredibly erotic. Halliwell ended up bludgeoning Orton to death and subsequently killed himself with an overdose of pills. It’s a bleak ending to a pretty bleak story, but director Stephen Frears finds the beauty in the grime and the humor in the pain. And watching Gary Oldman transform from a slam-dancing Sid Vicious to the boy-chasing Joe Orton is truly a thing to behold.”
Visit Darren at his MySpace page to see all kinds of great details about his films including PUT THE CAMERA ON ME, COLOR ME OLSEN and his latest outing as a producer, ALL ABOUT EVIL!
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