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BIG LIST

I am at the end of my long period of watching gay films.

I started this project when I read the 50 Favorite listing in After Elton, a gay entertainment web site.

As I went along, I decided to add as many good gay films as I could find.

I wasn't always successful with the good but most of the time I hit the three level (out of Netflix five).

In all, I have looked at almost two hundred (200) gay films.

The have ranged from the earliest films that I remember seeing like A Different Splash David Hockney's semi-auto biographical film and A Natural Thing the second full gay feature that I saw which had an extremely positive message (gay men can find love and lead a happy life).

In later years there is a plethora of gay films by gay directors (Almodovar and others). There is also a gay niche market for special interest films.

My Fifty Favorite films would not be the same on the list. But I don't really think this way either.

If forced to say so, my current favorite would be Maurice the Merchant-Ivory film based on the Forster novel.

In the process, we also bought 23 films for viewing when we "feel like it".

Here are some of those: Plan B (Argentina). Just a Question of Love (France), Priest, Broken Sky (Mexico), Trick, Harvest (Germany), Love Songs (France), Strapped, Naked Boys Singing, Latter Days, Luster, From Beginning to End, Boy Culture, Soundless Wind Chime (China). No Regret (Korea), Were the World Mine, Shelter, A Very Natural Thing, Romeos (Germany), The String (France), Lilies (Canada) and Maurice.

And I adored many of the special innovative films by new directors. If you are gay you are avant-garde already so why not make that kind of film. Many of these films will never be seen anywhere.

It has been a great time and I appreciate the forbearance of those who play for the other team.

Next, I will be watching The Artist. What a nice change of pace that will be. I am ready to leave the ghetto.

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