AfterElton's 50 Greatest Gay Movies Poll

[Eric]

Yeah, I think you might be using the term "twink" a tad loosely here, Pen.

That said, there appears to be just about nary an errant body hair in this lineup, even if most of the guys are artificially pumped up.

But Latter Days, Trick, Get Real and The Broken Hearts Club in the top 10 when Bad Education barely cracks the top 50 (and surely only because of GGB's tighty-whitey pool laps, not Almodovar's filmmaking prowess) = flush this list down the toilet.



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[flipp525]

that too many of us lust after twinks

Yikes…not all of us. I loathe twinks.



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[Eric]

Pathetic.

[Penelope]

The list is up; proving that not all gay men have good taste, and that too many of us lust after twinks, here it is:

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Beautiful Thing
3. Shelter
4. Latter Days
5. Maurice
6. Trick
7. Get Real
8. Big Eden
9. The Broken Hearts Club
10. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
11. Longtime Companion
12. Torch Song Trilogy
13. My Beautiful Laundrette
14. Parting Glances
15. Just a Question of Love
16. Mysterious Skin
17. Summer Storm
18. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
19. The Birdcage
20. Sordid Lives
21. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
22. Shortbus
23. All Over the Guy
24. Another Gay Movie
25. The Boys in the Band
26. Philadelphia
27. To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar
28. Boy Culture
29. The Wedding Banquet
30. C.R.A.Z.Y.
31. My Own Private Idaho
32. Jeffrey
33. The Trip
34. Edge of Seventeen
35. Priest
36. In & Out
37. Eating Out
38. Velvet Goldmine
39. Angels in America
40. Love! Valour! Compassion!
41. The Sum of Us
42. Burnt Money
43. Transamerica
44. Victor/Victoria
45. Bent
46. Yossi & Jagger
47. Bad Education
48. Gods and Monsters
49. Making Love
50. Rent

The whole article, with commentary on the top 20, is here.

[Hustler]

I want to add Boys in the Band, an icon, and Longtime Companion.

Great choices, Hustler. The former makes me feel terrible and almost the entire cast died of AIDS, but it's a classic of gay cinema and captures the vitriolic self-hatred that many gay men of that generation felt. The latter contains one the most beautiful endings of any film of that period, gay or straight.

I'll add:
All About My Mother
Rebel Without a Cause
The Children's Hour
Night of the Iguana
Ma Vie en Rose
Mysterious Skin

I was thinking of that Flipp. It´s so sad. Great actors, specially Kenneth Nelson who died in 1993. The film captures the exasperation of that generation.
As for Longtime Companion, Bruce Davison delivers a remarkable performance. Norman Rene represents another great loss.

[Hustler]

I want to add Boys in the Band, an icon, and Longtime Companion.

Great choices, Hustler. The former makes me feel terrible and almost the entire cast died of AIDS, but it's a classic of gay cinema and captures the vitriolic self-hatred that many gay men of that generation felt. The latter contains one the most beautiful endings of any film of that period, gay or straight.

I was thinking of that Flipp. It´s so sad. Great actors, specially Kenneth Nelson who died in 1993. The film captures the exasperation of that generation.
As for Longtime Companion, Bruce Davison delivers a remarkable performance. Norman Rene represents another great loss.



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[OscarGuy]

I even managed to forget The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

[flipp525]

I want to add Boys in the Band, an icon, and Longtime Companion.

Great choices, Hustler. The former makes me feel terrible and almost the entire cast died of AIDS, but it's a classic of gay cinema and captures the vitriolic self-hatred that many gay men of that generation felt. The latter contains one the most beautiful endings of any film of that period, gay or straight.

I'll add:
All About My Mother
Rebel Without a Cause
The Children's Hour
Night of the Iguana
Ma Vie en Rose
Mysterious Skin

[Penelope]

One of the writers for the site voted for Ordinary People, arguing that, as a teen, he viewed the Timothy Hutton character as gay and his parents not accepting it...so I guess LOTR would be valid.

[OscarGuy]

I haven't seen the wide array of films you guys have, but my ballot would probably be:

Brokeback Mountain (to counteract the possibly too pervasive thought that everyone else will vote for it...that thinking has killed too many strong Oscar winners, IMO)
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Kinsey
Angels in America (but is it even eligible?)
Far From Heaven
Gods and Monsters
The Crying Game
Torch Song Trilogy
The Color Purple
Victor/Victoria
Midnight Cowboy
Rebecca (would it really qualify if it's implied and not specifically stated?)

I would put LOTR in there for its obvious homoerotic overtones, but I don't think they would qualify that.

[Penelope]

Here is the link to vote.

[OscarGuy]

You know this is a poll over at afterelton.com, right? Adding them here isn't going to help them in that poll.

[Hustler]

I want to add Boys in the Band, an icon, and Longtime Companion.

[Hustler]

Victor Victoria, Death in Venice and Happy Together are among my best. I´m still waiting for Tropical Malady.

[Reza]

Oh, what I did vote for:

Un chant d'amour

A classic! Have it on video.