𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙏 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭)

𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔, next Monday will be a special day because it will be 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕's 50𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚, so today I want to share with you the very first interview I read from 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 published in a Mexican magazine oriented to young people, very popular between the late 80's and early 00's. When I read this interview, I didn't know 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆's voice yet, I had only seen a couple of pictures and videos of the band and listened to "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔" album. After reading his answers, it seemed to me that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 was a very nice, funny and cool guy, and that hasn't changed until today. What has changed, is my admiration and affection for him, because now it's bigger. ✨💖🥁💕🎶

 Photo credit: Karen Mason Blair / Edit by Rita

🔷✨ 𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙒 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙏 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭) ✨🔷

𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 "𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘒" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶" 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘡𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘦 (𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵), 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮…

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 “𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖”?
With the last album "Without you I'm Nothing" we did a 14-month tour and we were so busy that we couldn't write anything. When we finished, we were really tired, but we had to get to work because we were already tired of playing the songs on that album, and since we had been like monkeys playing, playing and playing, we already wanted to change the rhythm of work, and this we were only going to achieve it by writing new songs; we were excited about it.

𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗨𝗖𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖. 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗜𝗧 𝗔 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘?
I've been playing for 15 years, and from '89 to '91 I was in a techno band called K Klass. Besides, I've always liked electronic music; I'm from Manchester and there's a good movement of this kind of music there. Apart, I experienced the ecstasy of electronic music, so it's not strange that someone like me likes that genre so much.

⭐ 𝐊 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 - 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐀 𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 1991) [ 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 ] 🎶
https://youtu.be/p1C20hCFjks

Photo credit: Nadav Kander

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧, 𝗪𝗘 𝗞𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗣 𝗕𝗜𝗭𝗞𝗜𝗧'𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡, 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗧….
About two years ago in New York we were playing a Christmas show with Kid Rock, and when we finished, Fred Durst suddenly stepped on stage and said Placebo sucked, so a big fight started. He's a poor idiot; We never cleared things up afterwards, so we were never friends again, and we weren't friends anyway. Four months later we met at a show in Australia, but since everyone already knew about the fight, the organizers planned everything so that we did not coincide, so nothing happened. But he's a real jerk; He and his band can go to hell.

𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗪𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗗 𝗔 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗕𝗢𝗪𝗜𝗘...
That's right, we met him when he was on tour with Morrisey, and one day, all of a sudden Morrisey disappeared. Bowie had some demos of us, so he wanted us to open some shows for him and that's when it all started. I think Bowie saw something of him in Brian in terms of lyrics. The thing is that we kept getting along, and when we released the last album, He proposed us to play together. Of course we said yes; When people like him want to do something with you, you know you're doing something right.

𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗔 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗡?
Of course I do!, it was when I was 11 and I was in school. A couple of friends wanted to form a band and they talked to me. They had older brothers who were in other bands, so they lent us their guitars, but there were only two. My brother also had his band, but he didn't lend me his guitar and anyway they told me "why don't you try the drums?" I tried it and learned to play on my own. That's when I realized I wanted to be a musician, and here I am
(laughs).

𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗥𝗘-𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗧?
Nothing, because that's what was going on at the time; That was our mentality and that's how we thought we should sound, that's why records should stay as they are, because they reflect an exact moment you are going through.

𝗟𝗘𝗧'𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗔 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗘𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗧 𝗔 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡, 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔𝗦𝗞 𝗛𝗜𝗠?
What drugs do you take? Who do you sleep with? (laughs) I'd be a gossip journalist, of course! And if I had to answer I'd say "f*ck you." I'd love to ask those things just to see the reaction.

Photo credit: Sebastian Dolidon

🔷 𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙀𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙃𝙀
𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙄𝙀𝙎... 🎬 🔷

𝗔 𝗙𝗘𝗪 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 "𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘" 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗘𝗪𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗖𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥.
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗜𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗦?
I really enjoyed the experience, I made a lot of friends and it was a pleasure to work with someone like Todd Haynes (director). Of course, I'd rather be a musician than an actor because it's less tiring. When you act you have to wait for a lot of things to happen, as a musician you just do them and that's it, plus it's very tiring. From there I began to get along with Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) who was the producer, but after "Velvet Goldmine" I retired precisely because I was so tired (laughs), but it's a good movie. What I did hate is that people started to label us as a glam band after that. They don't understand that it's cinema, it's fiction, we were playing a glam band, but suddenly the reporters told us "how does it feel to be a glam band? Got damn! Anyway, the experience was wonderful.

𝗜𝗙 𝗔 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠𝗘𝗗, 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬?
(laughs) I think it would be Nicolas Cage (laughs) because you can always see that he brings out the funny side of everything when he acts; That's why I like him so much, I'm like that. He's also very intense, just like me. That's a good question, I think I'm going to remember it when I go to sleep (laughs).

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘?
I like things like "Being John Malkovich". I'm not one of those who enjoy horror movies or very gory stuff; I lean towards tapes like "Drugstore Cowboy", "Buffalo 66", "Rumble Fish", "Angel heart", that kind of thing….

Photo credit: Juliette Robert

🔷 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙄𝘾… 🎶 🔷

⭐𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗘𝗧...
Julian Cope.
💿𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧...
"The Wall" by Pink Floyd...
🎸𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗥𝗧 𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗...
"To one of the Pixies in Manchester and opened Bloody Valentines. That changed my life, because at the time I was listening to AC/DC and stuff like that, mostly because of my brother, and when I saw Pixies they blew me away. They taught me that there was something else beyond what I was listening to." ✪

𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕: 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑜 𝑅𝑜𝑗𝑎𝑠
𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆: 𝐸𝑟𝑒𝑠, 1𝑠𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2001, #313
𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑅𝑖𝑡𝑎 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝐿. 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤𝑎𝑦

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒: 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬

Today I’m going to share the last part of my series with you - the last for now because I’m pretty sure there will be more points of connection between our favourite band and films which I can tell you about in future.

Photo credits: Kevin Westenberg, posters of the films / edit by Olga

𝐋𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 and 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 are movies mentioned by Brian as favourites in his 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒆 (https://bit.ly/2GJQ3pS) for Silver Rocket magazine.

📍𝐋𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 (1995) is a French black-and-white drama film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui. The title derives from a line spoken by one of the main characters "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds hatred".
𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕
The film follows three young men during twenty-four hours of their life spent in the French suburban "ghetto." Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, 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.

📍𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 (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.
𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕
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.

Photo credit: Robin

📍𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 (1991) - one of Brian’s favourite films mentioned by him back in 1999.

𝑺𝑼𝑩: 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒅 𝑯𝒂𝒚𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈?
📢Brian: 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.
(𝑆𝑈𝐵 "𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜", 1999)

𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 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 𝑱𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒕 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.
𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕
There are three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence.
In "𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨," 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 "𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫," 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 "𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐨," 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).
𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫
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📍𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒 (1963) - a short film which Todd Haynes alludes to in his 1998 movie Velvet Goldmine.

📢"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.'"
(𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 "𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑠", 𝑂𝑐𝑡'98)
Well, Brian was wrong about the decade but perfectly remembered the general vibe of this short film😉

𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 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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📍𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐘 (1999) - one of the movies Brian was hugely impressed by back in 2000.

𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓?
📢"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.
(𝐾𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 "𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 - 𝑀𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟", 𝐷𝑒𝑐'00)

𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐲 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.

📍𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐕𝐄𝐓 (1986) – a movie that Brian could obviously relate to at a certain moment.
📢“If I was a film I would be: Blue Velvet”
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑦, “𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑡”, 2006)

𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 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.
𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕
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.

📍𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒 (2009) – a film that features director's thanks to Brian Molko: very nice casting encounter.

𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐬 is a Luxembourg-German co-production directed by Jean-Claude Schlim, starring Loïc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier.
During 2009-2011, the film won Audience Award at various LGBT International Festivals in Brussels, Rio, Melbourne, Durban.
𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕
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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