
Are there any gay filmmakers that make films that are any good?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 17, 2020 9:04 PM |
Terence Davies
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
James Ivory
etc etc
by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 14, 2020 2:43 PM |
Pedro Almodovar Alejandro Amenabar Xavier Dolan Christophe Honoré
by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 14, 2020 4:06 PM |
Sorry, I forgot the spaces
by Anonymous | reply 11 | January 14, 2020 4:07 PM |
I worship Xavier Dolan. I like Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes too.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 14, 2020 4:09 PM |
They said good films, R15.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | January 14, 2020 4:12 PM |
Francis Lee for God's Own Country, and Andrew Haigh for Weekend (2011) and Looking; The Movie.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | January 14, 2020 4:50 PM |
Sorry meant Clive Barker not Craven.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | January 14, 2020 6:46 PM |
Marco Berger for me. His sensibilities align with mine perfectly.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | January 14, 2020 6:48 PM |
Another thumbs up for F.W. Murnau and James Whale.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 14, 2020 7:15 PM |
[quote] They said good films, [R15].
Your response should be to R12. I’ll take [italic]Independence Day[/italic] and [italic]Stonewall[/italic] over some sick fascist pedo melodrama.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | January 14, 2020 8:03 PM |
I really liked Midway, it's probably his best since Independence Day
by Anonymous | reply 29 | January 14, 2020 8:05 PM |
There are a handful and they'v mostly already been named. Most gay themed movies suck really hard and are just an excuse for a bunch of male models who can't act to run around shirtless (or less).
by Anonymous | reply 31 | January 14, 2020 8:15 PM |
Only a gay director could have gotten away with killing off Harvey Fierstein in the first act.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | January 14, 2020 8:19 PM |
John Waters
Todd Haynes
Gregg Araki
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alan Ball
Paul Morrissey
George Cukor
Bryan Singer (say what you want, haters)
Franco Zeferelli (yeah, he also raped people)
Kenneth Anger
James Whale
John Schlesinger
Francois Ozon
Pedro Almodovar
Kimberly Pierce
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Jean Cocteau
Chantal Akerman
Luca Guadagnino
John Cameron Mitchell
John Krokidas
Alain Guiraudie
Alejandro Amenabar
Xavier Dolan
Derek Jarman
Jim Fall
John Greyson
Lisa Cholodenko
Todd Graff
Merchant-Ivory
Julie Taymor
Robert Luketic
Gus Van Sant
Luchino Visconti
Nicholas Hytner
Stephen Daldry
Tate Taylor
Madeline Olnek
Tom Ford
I don't like them overall. But these homosexuals have directed at least one, good film:
Ryan Murphy
Adam Shankman
Roland Emmerich
Lee Daniels
Joel Schumacher
Rob Marshall
Randall Kleiser
Clive Barker
Don Mancini
Bill Condon
by Anonymous | reply 33 | January 14, 2020 8:48 PM |
Wash West and Richard Glatzer
Jonah Markowitz's SHELTER is good.
James Bolton's DREAM BOY is good.
Q. Allan Brocka's BOY CULTURE is good.
John Maybury's LOVE IS THE DEVIL is good.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | January 14, 2020 8:54 PM |
Jesus Christ. Do we need to feed a troll like OP who is so lazy as to ask such a stupid question, when all the world's information is at his fingertips?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | January 14, 2020 8:58 PM |
R35 The OP asked for recommendations to promote a discussion of their works and the directors themselves, not just for lists.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | January 14, 2020 9:02 PM |
Well you're in luck, r36.
Because I've just provided a list vetted for quality, since the OP asked for "films that are any good;' not "just a list at your fingertips."
OP doesn't have to read any, other list now.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | January 14, 2020 9:50 PM |
R36 yeah where does the OP ask for that? And where is the discussion?
Here's another one for you:
"Jewish Film Makers
Are there any jewish filmmakers that make films that are any good?"
It's like asking if there is any tasty fruit.
Or if there are any nice cities in Europe.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | January 14, 2020 9:55 PM |
The documentary filmmaking team of Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman have made a number of films:
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Paragraph 175
The Celluloid Closet
Word Is Out
and two that won Oscars for Best Documentary:
The Times of Harvey Milk
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
by Anonymous | reply 39 | January 14, 2020 10:07 PM |
Why are so many gay films just shitty?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | January 14, 2020 10:20 PM |
Instead of flooding DL with another list that could be easily pasted from a thousand sites, why not explain what you like about a specific filmmaker?
Someone upthread cited Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a gay filmmaker from Thailand. His work is dreamlike, marrying the mundane to the spiritual. His movie Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a motherfucking masterpiece. I appreciate it best while high, but anyone should be able to find wonder on this film.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | January 14, 2020 10:22 PM |
A lot of my favorites have already been cited but I’ll add the following: Paul Bartel, Andy Milligan, Yukio Mishima, Tony Richardson, Tsai Ming-liang, Patrice Chéreau, Sergei Parajanov, Claude Jutra, Lindsay Anderson, George Kuchar, Dennis Cooper, Werner Schroeter and André Téchiné.
Gus Van Sant and Todd Haynes showed promise early on but sold out.
Can’t stand twee, BUTT magazine-style filmmaking like Andrew Haigh and especially Xavier Dolan.
Luca Guadagnino and Tom Ford are downright schmaltzy and awful.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | January 14, 2020 10:58 PM |
French director-writer, Camille Vidal-Naquet's first film Sauvage (Wild) was quite good. I've been wondering what he might have planned next.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 43 | January 15, 2020 12:00 AM |
Don Mancini deserves props for keeping the Child's Play series afloat. He's the only case I can think of where the same person has written every single film in the franchise and it shows. He actually cares about the characters and taking the stories into new, interesting places and not repeating himself. Some didn't like that the series got campy with Bride and Seed of Chucky, but it was bound to happen eventually considering it's a series about a fucking killer doll.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | January 15, 2020 12:04 AM |
Marginal/Underground filmmaker Todd Verow makes pretty bad movies. However, his gritty 2012 Bottom is a masterpiece on a shoestring.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | January 15, 2020 12:17 AM |
R40, most films of any kind are awful. And maybe gifted gay directors don't want to be seen as making "gay films," which are still believed to have a limited audience.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | January 15, 2020 12:22 AM |
I am fond of shitty marginal "gay movies" from around the world. There are dozens and dozens made every year. Most are not any "good" as cinema but if you adjust your expectations, you can tour around the world and get a sense of how it is for gays in other cultures. They often offer eye candy, too. There is a kind of charm because they are labours of love and ego by not so talented people.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | January 15, 2020 12:28 AM |
OP, have you considered doing a search on Wikipedia? It might have saved some time.
Don Roos
Xavier Dolan
Tom Ford
Jodie Foster
Another vote for John Waters, Todd Haynes, Lee Daniels, Bill Condon, Alan Ball
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 15, 2020 12:29 AM |
The DL loves this kind of trolling. The Vietnam War - What was the point? Any issues?
It's one of the Trolling Templates guaranteed to get responses.
Here's another: "Frank Sinatra - Vastly Overrated! And charmless. Why was he a star?" Template: Provocative untrue opening gambit.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | January 15, 2020 12:40 AM |
R49, the result of trolling can be interesting, and this trolling was benign.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | January 15, 2020 12:48 AM |
Agreed. Though there is always something passive aggressive about intellectual laziness, even from a stupid person unable to contribute more.
French and their food. Do they cook anything that is any good?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | January 15, 2020 12:52 AM |
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Any art there that is any good?
by Anonymous | reply 53 | January 15, 2020 12:54 AM |
A lot have been said but I haven't seen Eytan Fox mentioned in this thread. Fantastic israeli filmmaker.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | January 15, 2020 12:59 AM |
Instead of complaining, why don't you contribute something to this thread? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Just because I start a list type of thread doesn't make me intellectually lazy. Sometimes, I like to test the waters first, and if others bite, I'll become more invested in the discussion.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | January 15, 2020 1:01 AM |
I did contribute a director, film and an opinion about it, above. Why don't you now contribute, if you aren't an ignoramus and actually have "any good" suggestions of your own?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | January 15, 2020 1:04 AM |
[quote]doesn't make me intellectually lazy
Hmmm
[quote]Are there any gay filmmakers that make films that are any good?
You might not be intellectually lazy, but you definitely created an intellectually lazy thread.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | January 15, 2020 1:04 AM |
OP probably doesn't understand that he insulted a century long history of gay filmmakers. ("Any good ones?" "Well!?" "Are any at all even good?" "I certainly can't come up with a name off the top of my head!") Very little attention to word choice.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | January 15, 2020 1:08 AM |
Jewish Writers
Are there any jewish writers that write books that are any good?
Well?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | January 15, 2020 1:09 AM |
R43, it's such a sad film, I can still remember it. Awful
by Anonymous | reply 60 | January 15, 2020 1:11 AM |
R48, Jodie Foster.....hahahahahahahahahahahahaha..... Oh, come on Jodie Foster???
by Anonymous | reply 61 | January 15, 2020 1:12 AM |
R59 Perhaps narrowing the focus to a specific genre or country would have helped. There are simply too many films, especially if the only criteria is that the filmmaker is gay.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | January 15, 2020 1:13 AM |
R48, Lee Daniels — certainly. But Jodie Fos-ter?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | January 15, 2020 1:13 AM |
The most successful filmmakers like John Waters and Pedro Almodovar don't make only gay films per se. Most gay films I've watched this year have been from first time filmmakers, women, and even straight men.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | January 15, 2020 1:23 AM |
Uber gay, genius, Mitchell Leisen
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 65 | January 15, 2020 1:32 AM |
Is Frank Henenlotter gay? His films have a lot of male eye candy. Brain Damage is my favorite.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | January 15, 2020 1:35 AM |
Xavier Dolan should be included because he’s fuckable. Francois Ozon should be included because he’s a master.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | January 15, 2020 2:16 AM |
R43 - Yeah, Sauvage was quite good.
Another gay film that I liked - actually in this case loved - was the End of the Century from gay Argentinian filmmaker Lucio Castro (making his first feature-length film).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 70 | January 15, 2020 4:39 AM |
R41 = Jealous Bitch that I’ve seen more movies than her.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | January 15, 2020 4:56 AM |
Don Mancini certainly did NOT write every movie in the Chucky franchise, r44.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | January 15, 2020 4:59 AM |
No, Frank Henenlotter is not gay. His films have a lot of T&A, too.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | January 15, 2020 5:03 AM |
No one does unspoken sexual tension like Marco Berger. I love subtlety as opposed to hitting you in the face with a sledgehammer. As for the obligatory sex scene which Americans seem to crave in every movie, we have porn for that.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | January 15, 2020 12:54 PM |
It becomes repetitive to have sexual tension that characters are somehow 12 year olds terrified to act on it r74. I liked in Marco Berger's newest movie Un Rubio the characters actually act on it early in the movie and the tension instead becomes about what that means to each one.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | January 15, 2020 3:31 PM |
Gus Van Saint has been nominated more than once. He has made some great films. There are others...
by Anonymous | reply 76 | January 15, 2020 4:02 PM |
Careful R74, that around here is called 'lesbianism' and it is liked one bit on the DL.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | January 15, 2020 9:19 PM |
I don't even know if Greg Ariki is gay or not...I thought he was gay, then he married a woman.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | January 15, 2020 9:40 PM |
I assumed that Paul Verhoeven is gay but I guess not.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | January 15, 2020 10:12 PM |
R79 from Wikipedia:
[quote] Araki has previously self-identified as "a gay Asian American".[25] Contrary to the statement, beginning in 1997 he had a relationship with actress Kathleen Robertson, that ended in 1999.[26][27][28] In a 2014 interview, Araki said that "[I] don’t really identify as anything", adding "[I] probably identify as gay at this point, but [I] have been with women".[29]
by Anonymous | reply 81 | January 15, 2020 11:35 PM |
R45 Todd Verow made a couple of interesting films but then they all became about bug chasing and that crazy old punk rock lady he kept giving starring roles to. Also, did anyone else here know Verow appeared in a Ray Dragon/Joe Gage porn video he played a cop and he's sweaty and limp through almost the entire scene and when he does get hard his cock is so curved it looks like a boomerang.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | January 16, 2020 1:08 AM |
[quote]I don't even know if Greg Ariki is gay or not...I thought he was gay, then he married a woman.
He can't make a good film to save himself, that's for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | January 16, 2020 2:34 AM |
Rob Marshall has exactly one good movie on his résumé and it starts with a "C" and ends with an "O".
by Anonymous | reply 84 | January 16, 2020 2:51 AM |
Many try to go mainstream like “see? I can make straight films too” and become mediocre. Even Almafovar isn’t as good as he used to be. Many are also obsessed with straight men, always casting them as gay leads and in Lee Daniel’s (who I loathe) case he’s obsessed with straight white males. Oh, what an honor this handsome straight man deigned to play gay. Pathetic!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | January 16, 2020 8:30 AM |
That guy who directed that semi-bug chasing movie I Want Your Love.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | January 17, 2020 7:18 PM |
Louise Hogarth, lesbian director of [italic]The Gift[/italic], a documentary about bugchasers
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 88 | January 17, 2020 7:28 PM |
R87, that was a bug chasing movie? Granted, I fast forwarded through most of it to get to the sex scenes, but I don't remember that. All I remember is that the guy had a knack for filming realistic, intimate gay sex scenes.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | January 17, 2020 7:45 PM |
The lead takes a load from a poz guy and the black actor says something about it being no big deal just before breeding the "nice guy" of the group.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | January 17, 2020 9:04 PM |
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