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Gay brave williams7/9/2023 ![]() Two eight-year-old boys share an emotionally traumatic night with their Little League coach, then cope with the consequences until they are yoked back together on the cusp of young adulthood. Mysterious Skin Gregg Araki brings Scott Heim's harrowing, fantastic, and darkly funny novel brilliantly to the screen. Swofford and director Sam Mendes stress that to most young GIs, even the most fervently created antiwar film is a fighting man's pornography. ![]() Like Anthony Swofford's bawdy and irreverent memoir, from which it is drawn, Jarhead aims to provide the eternal reason why young men are drawn to war, like moths to the flame. Jarhead masquerades as an antiwar film until it reveals its real purpose. Director Ang Lee's deft pacing allows imperceptible accretions of affection to mount between Jack and Ennis, turning them before our eyes, if not immediately before theirs, into soulmates, not merely female-starved, horny guys. Every pretty actor who's ever ridden across Tombstone Country flashes by our eyes as we observe Jack observing Ennis through his truck's side mirror. A century of movie cowboys can be glimpsed in his ever-so-slight grin. The driver, Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), kicks his junker and turns to the camera. Ennis Del Mar is a man of very few words, his face hidden by his hat until a beat-up GMC pickup sputters into view. After each selection, we make a short mention of another fine film (in italics) that just missed the cut.īrokeback Mountain Heath Ledger gives an Oscar-worthy take on a man who already seems in mourning for a loss he will be late to grasp. ![]() 2005 produced such a bumper crop of queer-themed films that we've added a shadow list to the Top 10 (in bold). ![]()
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