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๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ and ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ญ are movies mentioned by Brian as favourites in his ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (https://bit.ly/2GJQ3pS) for Silver Rocket magazine.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (1995) is a French black-and-white drama film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundรฉ, Saรฏd Taghmaoui. The title derives from a line spoken by one of the main characters "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred".
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The film follows three young men during twenty-four hours of their life spent in the French suburban "ghetto." Vinz, a Jew, Saรฏd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in the suburbs of Paris where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (1991) is an American black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford.
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Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However, their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together... until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.
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๐บ๐ผ๐ฉ: ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐?
๐ขBrian: Well, you could say so because ‘Poison’ is my most favorite movie. When I got the offer, I went to audition and told him, “Just please give me any role. I need to be in your movie. I adore your works.” Then we became very good friends. Whenever we go to New York or he comes to London, we hang out. It’s really amazing to be friends with someone you admire.
(๐๐๐ต "๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐", 1999)
๐๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง is an American science fiction drama horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman, Scott Renderer, and James Lyons.
It is composed of three intercut stories that are partially inspired by the novels of ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ and include quotations from Our Lady of the Flowers, The Miracle of the Rose, and The Thief's Journal. With its gay themes, Poison became one of the most fervently debated film of the early 1990s and considered to be an early entry in the New Queer Cinema movement.
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There are three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence.
In "๐๐๐ซ๐จ," seven-year-old Richie kills his abusive father and then flies away. After the event, a documentary, made in the style of an episode of a tabloid television news magazine, in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting.
In the black and white "๐๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ," a gothic tale in the style of a psychotropic horror film of the mid-1960s, a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality, drinks it, and becomes a festering, contagious murderer. A female colleague who loves him tries to help, to her peril.
In "๐๐จ๐ฆ๐จ," a prisoner John Broom finds himself attracted to an inmate, Jack Bolton, whom he had known and seen humiliated as a youth in a juvenile facility. It is an adaptation of part of Genet's The Miracle of the Rose (1946).
๐๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง - ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ
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๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (1963) - a short film which Todd Haynes alludes to in his 1998 movie Velvet Goldmine.
๐ข"The fictitious band featuring Molko and Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt are called The Flaming Creatures; 'named after,' Molko says, 'a 1920's gay porn film.'"
(๐บ๐ข๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ "๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐กโ๐ ", ๐๐๐ก'98)
Well, Brian was wrong about the decade but perfectly remembered the general vibe of this short film๐
๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ is an American experimental film directed by Jack Smith that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial. This is one of the most controversial short film of all time, it contains scenes of a group of people who do things that are considered bizarre, strange and taboo, including sexual activity.
Most of the characters are sexually ambiguous, such as transvestites, intersex, and drag performers. Flaming Creatures is largely non-narrative, and its action is often interrupted by cutaways to close-ups of body parts.
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.”
Because of its graphic depiction of sexuality, some venues refused to show Flaming Creatures, and in March 1964, police interrupted a screening, some of the filmmakers were charged. Nevertheless, it turned to be an important point at the underground film movement.
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๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ (1999) - one of the movies Brian was hugely impressed by back in 2000.
๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐?
๐ข"Boys don't cry" It's shocking that that kind of thing happens even today, that people can be that backward. The fact that it's a true story makes it all the more heartbreaking.
(๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐ "๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐๐๐", ๐ท๐๐'00)
๐๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ฒ is an American biographical film which is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man, who attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ (1986) – a movie that Brian could obviously relate to at a certain moment.
๐ข“If I was a film I would be: Blue Velvet”
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ฆ, “๐ต๐๐ข๐ก”, 2006)
๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ญ is an American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror with film noir, it stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern.
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The film concerns a young college student who, returning home to visit his ill father, discovers a severed human ear in a field that leads to his uncovering a vast criminal conspiracy and entering a romantic relationship with a troubled lounge singer.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ (2009) – a film that features director's thanks to Brian Molko: very nice casting encounter.
๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ is a Luxembourg-German co-production directed by Jean-Claude Schlim, starring Loรฏc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier.
During 2009-2011, the film won Audience Award at various LGBT International Festivals in Brussels, Rio, Melbourne, Durban.
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A glamorous, colourful story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984, through an exciting world of sex and music, where his passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage facing a new disease, AIDS, and becomes deep, true love in the expectancy of his friend's horrible death and beyond.
I hope you can find something interesting for you among these facts. Every little bit may help us to know more about Brian’s personality, don’t you think so, soulmates? However, when it comes to cinematography, as any other kind of arts, it’s never enough of learning…
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