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Rope may be known to most as Hchck's experimental attempt to shoot an entire film what appears to be a sgle shot, but 's also the filmmaker’s gayt.
A gay man's (Tom Cullen) weekend-long enunter wh an artist (Chris New) chang his life unexpected ways. * gay film the weekend *
The classic psychologil thriller is about a gay uple who murrs a man, then throws a dner party g the ad body's tnk as the buffet — que lerally "be gay, do crime, " Hchck-style. Of urse, this was 1948, and that queerns is all subtext, but roars to the surface thanks to gay screenwrer Arthur Lrents's script and performanc by s notably gay leads, Farley Granger who plays Phillip Man wh an anx flamboyance, and John Dall, whose Brandon Shaw embodi a more rerved, posh queerns.
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Often dubbed the gay Thelma & Louise, Gregg Araki's The Livg End follows the reckls road trip of two HIV-posive, anti-tablishment gay men who go on the n after killg a homophobic p.
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