College (1927)

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COLLEGE (1927)


The brilliance of Buster Keaton
in this role
is making complete failure
at absolutely everything
look like only slight
exaggeration

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Accatone! (1961) (Italy) Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

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ACCATONE! (1961)


Some pimps should just stay home.
Some pimps ain't got no luck.
This one hangs around in a slum
with his chums--so in fact

he doesn't leave home.
One day broke luckless Accatone
sees a nice girl
and is stunned.

He wants her
as she is, but he needs her
to making a living, so
to the streets she goes.


Disenchantment with his niche
leads Accatone to take a radical step
toward a more honest profession:
stealing.

but pimps aren't meant
to work
and it is
his undoing.

Everyone in this,
Passolini's first
movie,
is hungry, yet

their specific charm lies
in the inability
to imagine
food

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Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959); short; director Stan Brakhage

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Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)


Since seeing this film
it strobes in a private
fold in the crevices of my brain;
a sexy scary and
almost nauseous depiction
of intimacy and forces
bigger than shadows darting and
coffee cups lifting
in throbbing repetition
to lips and the
silent in and out of everyday

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Entire film can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkOBLj9NYY&feature=PlayList&p=5175804071EF730C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=36

L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907); Director Georges Méliès'

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The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)


Part of Georges Méliès' oeuvre

of "Artificially Arranged Scenes"

this film is overlooked

for what it really is:

the first depiction of gay sex

on the big screen



That the celestial act happens

between the sun and the moon

does not make it any less

queer

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A clip can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgSZ6ZNGAM

Desistfilm (1954); short; director Stan Brakhage

Desistfilm (1954)


It's just a party arty


then it's just rhythm isn't it

The Love Parade (1929)

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The Love Parade (1929)


A man must prove

that he is strong

and that he is King

in his own home-- even

if his wife

sits on the throne.



And if he happens to be

a young

Maurice Chevalier

he does it with

aplomb,

wit, swagger, and

but of course!--

with song

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Movie Clip here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQ1jqN2s_E

Careful (1992)

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Careful (1992)


Shhh--careful!
Why do you crunch so loudly
on that apple?

See the tall transparent ladies
wearing bonnets and long dresses?

They are the victims themselves
of avalanches. They guard
this mountain town, where daily life

is muffled in yellow brocade
and the air is velvet with fear
of one excess note. Only

sincere sound carries here,
like true lovers' words, yet
one stray reverberation

can kill us all with
a sudden downpour of
clean snow, or how about

we kill each other first?



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