a friend who knows of my interest mentioned that jean genet's un chant d'amour will be featured in this year's outfest (the los angeles gay/lesbian film festival). for those of you unfamiliar with the film, it's an underground classic which genet made back in 1950 using a professional crew and four of his friends and former lovers as actors, his target audience being collectors of gay erotica. considered extraordinarily shocking at the time, it was almost immediately banned and remained unavailable to all but a few for many years.
i've wanted to see it for a long time, so during our chat i googled it on the off-chance it might have become available online since the last time i checked, and voila!, there it was--instant gratification, thank you jesus for the intertubes.
i'm not a film reviewer so i won't bore you with my impressions, except to say that i loved it--and whoever added the music (it was originally silent) knew exactly what they were doing. oh, and i watched the sequence with the smoke through the straw at least a dozen times.
if you have 25 minutes, have any interest in vintage avant-garde filmmaking and/or you're curious to see what could possibly have gotten peoples' panties in such a bunch half a century ago, give it a click. and as you watch, try to forget that these guys would all be in their 80s now (le sigh).
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whoa...
le (mutha fuckin) sigh, indeed.....
jesus rodham christ mccain, this shite is hot..
mmkay, pardon me while i chafe off a couple of more layers of skin off my unused rod..
yhm: yeah, i thought you'd like that one ;)
Everyone in that movie needed to be 10 years younger .
They also need to shave all that body hair ; I felt like I was watching chewbacca porn .
The smoking through the straw thing was interesting , I admit . Though Hardly romantic or erotic . Like all gay films , it's overly stupid and sentimental .
Where are the real fags that party hard and fuck even harder ?
bb: yeah, i figured this one'd be lost on you.
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