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Amor de Hombre 7 reviews
Loles Leon, Andrea Occhipinti
TLA Releasing, 2003
Another way to see things
+ The Meaning of Friendship
+ hits close to home
+ Amor de Hombre
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All About My Mother 112 reviews
Eloy Azorín, Carmen Balagué (II)
Sony Pictures, 2000
All About My Mother
+ Impressive
+ Mama Said There'd Be Gays Like This
+ Beautifully weaved Masterpiece
+ Hard to get one's head around this one
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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca 35 reviews
Andy Garcia, Esai Morales
Sony Pictures, 1999
Wonderful movie
+ Informative
+ Very Moving, if not completely historically correct
This was one of the best movies I have seen. The flashback technique was somewhat like Mulholland Drive, but the viewer was allowed to achieve total understanding at the end. (Although it might take a couple of viewings to really understand.) Every actor and scene contributed to the mystery which ...
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Law of Desire11 reviews
Agustín Almodóvar, Antonio Banderas
Cinevista Inc., 1989
celluloid eroticism
+ Lo dudo
+ Pedro fans want this film released on DVD already!!!!
+ I agree with number 1
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life1 review
Ian Gibson
Faber and Faber, 1990
Lorquiana!
I read this book years ago from cover to cover and I had never even read any Lorca. This book is huge! (500 pages!) But I completed it all.
I think that those interested in the lives of pre-Stonewall gays will find this especially enlightening. Lorca uses Freudian, problematic reasoning for ...
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Federico Garcia Lorca (Outlines)
David C. Johnston
Absolute Press, 1999
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The Hispanic Homograph: Gay Self-Representation in Contemporary Spanish Autobiography
Robert Ellis
University of Illinois Press, 1997
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Madonna - Truth or Dare73 reviews
Madonna, Donna DeLory
Live / Artisan, 1997
A new DVD release PLEASE
+ Is this DVD out of stock?
+ A Document for Madonna's Times
I bought this years ago on VHS....(enough said?). It deserves a DVD release and some extras. I saw Madonna in Philly in 1989 and I loved it. I still remember the opening act...Technotronic(they sucked). The songs are still good. I didn't even know who Antonio Banderas was then.
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Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film 1960-1990 (Oxford Hispanic Studies)
Paul Julian Smith
Oxford University Press, USA, 1992
Homosexuality has been treated only in a fragmentary way in Hispanic studies, and this is the first full-length study of the subject in contemporary Spanish writing and film. Introducing the book with a brief account of some medical, legal, and polemical texts, Paul Julian Smith, an established authority on Hispanic studies, charts the varying representations of the feminist or gay "self" in ...
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Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo
Juan Goytisolo, Peter Bush
Verso, 2003
For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. In some thirty books of fiction, autobiography, essays and journalism, he has turned the Spanish language against what he derides as "Sunnyspain" , flaying the "Hispanos" while excavating their culture's Moorish and Jewish roots. This, his masterful ...
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Boys Briefs 27 reviews
Brendan Fletcher, Linda Griffiths
Picture This, 2002
A Winner!
+ Different, but good because of it.
+ Some Good Some Bad
+ Better than average compilation
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Bad Education (Original Uncut NC-17 Edition)74 reviews
Francisco Boira, Javier Cámara
Sony Pictures, 2005
Transvestite junkies and pedophile priests
+ Smokin' in the Boy's Room
+ a touching, complex story with great performances from the entire cast
+ Bravo!
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Km.018 reviews
Carlos Blanes, Jesús Cabrero
TLA Releasing, 2004
Meet me at Kilometer Zero at 6:30
+ I liked this movie
+ loved it
+ KM-O
+ Spanish Silliness For Your Romantic Soul
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Bulgarian Lovers - Unrated Edition8 reviews
Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Dritan Biba
TLA Releasing, 2004
Clever, tightly plotted Euro-noir
+ Not 4 Straightlaced
+ "I'd give my life for you!"
A film noir in lgbt disguise, this movie puts together the appropriate elements--rueful narrator, love betrayed, clues to the conclusion--in fast-paced and clever manner. I found myself laughing out loud; the film deserves several viewings. Why the opening cigarette lighter? Why details as to ...
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Soldier of the Year 2 reviews
Jose Zuniga
Pocket, 1995
A flawed but fascinating military memoir
"Soldier of the Year," by Jose Zuniga, is the memoir of a United States Army soldier who was discharged after publicly announcing he was gay. Zuniga was a decorated veteran of the Persian Gulf War who had attained the rank of sergeant. The title alludes to a significant military honor bestowed ...
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Bear Cub27 reviews
José Luis García Pérez, David Castillo
TLA Releasing, 2005
Stunning, Innovative, Moving and Brilliant - Not for vapid US gays
+ A human family
+ Grandmum got the flick in the end.
I've read the 22 reviews that exist as of this writing (june 2006). I am so glad the the majority of reviewers have appreciated this amazing film from Spain. There are plenty of spoilers in the reviews and I wouldn't want to rob new viewers of the joy I had in the story unfolding. It was a ...
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I Love You Baby 3 reviews
Jorge Sanz, Santiago Magill
Strand Releasing, 2003
Step Away from the Implausible Plot, Enjoy thisTour de Force
I LOVE YOU BABY is light and fluffy and for all its faults, bounces around like a parody of American chick flicks and retro TV shows. Even the soundtrack is primarily well-known songs from the US and despite some of the criticisms of the rather implausible plot, the story is powered by some very ...
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Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, And Me (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) 7 reviews
Jaime Manrique
University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Notes towards a pan-Hispanic gay consciousness
+ Beautifully written and inspiring!
+ Inspiring and well-written
+ A deceptively simple, tender set of diary excerpts
+ An Insightful Peek at the Masters via Masterly Prose
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Second Skin (Unrated Version)20 reviews
Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà
New Yorker Video, 2003
A MAN TORN IN TWO...........(or: J&J Burn Up the Screen)
+ sad.... really wonderfully sad
+ Excellent actors, very real
+ Javier Bardem is once again amazing in this film.
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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca35 reviews
Andy Garcia, Esai Morales
Sony Pictures, 1999
Wonderful movie
+ Informative
+ Very Moving, if not completely historically correct
This was one of the best movies I have seen. The flashback technique was somewhat like Mulholland Drive, but the viewer was allowed to achieve total understanding at the end. (Although it might take a couple of viewings to really understand.) Every actor and scene contributed to the mystery which ...
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