Wild Tigers I Have Known
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Movie Reviews of Wild Tigers I Have Known
Movie Review: Beautiful film .
Summary: 5 Stars
Strong Performances and The topic of coming out make this film one of a kind watch now.Movie Review: Welcome to the Gay Arthouse
Summary: 4 Stars
You know you're not in Hollywood territory when a film features long, static shots of the main character watching television. I knew this was going to be an arthouse movie going in, and I believe that helped with my expectations. If you label it a gay coming of age story (although it, intrinsically, is), I think you get a much different view of what you are in for. Knowing that I was going to watch a slow but lovingly crafted film light on plot but long on beauty, I went in not expecting much and came away enchanted with this little movie. Honestly, I had to look up Malcolm Stumpf's credits as I hadn't remembered him from anything else, and the last thing he did was a Madonna movie almost ten years ago. Your appreciation of this movie will no doubt depend on how beautiful you think Malcolm is, as he is in virtually every scene, or how much the gay coming of age stuff resonates with you. I was affected on both counts, and so I would highly reccomend this film. It's frame of mind can be summed up by one scene in particular, during lunchtime in an outdoor school cafeteria. Malcolm sits by himself eating some pudding and proceeds to spill some on his crotch. He begins to clean himself and proceeds to get an erection. With utter simplicity, the scene covers adolescent alienation, desire, and the sometime humiliation of school life and boyhood in general, without a single line of dialogue. Check it out if you are in the right mood to watch it.Movie Review: Expecting conformity in art?
Summary: 4 Stars
Unlike the other 'critics' here, I found this film quirky and ultimately refreshing. The director isn't trying "too hard to make a art house film", rather, he's made something unusually refreshing without blood gore. Since when are art house films supposed to be predictable and pat? Given that the boy's mother is queen of the 'double bind'- "I love you/I hate you", he's desperately trying to deal with that and his burgeoning gay sexuality. Maybe most people in America are now so sated that they are expecting some patent commonalty in gay, coming of age films. The gay community both old and young are about DIVERSITY, not cookie cutting conformity even in how we develop our individual sexualities. My childhood was not like this boy's, but still I empathize with exactly what he went through. What may put off a lot of the viewers is the fact that the boy's fantasies are intermixed with his actual physical reality. That worked in "My Life In Pink", it works here and I think over all the movie is brilliantly posed and executed. Even the very ending was enchanting where the boy waves and runs up the hill like a bunny, how could you not love him?Movie Review: Reminds me of L.I.E., but less talk and more random dream with homoerotic overtones
Summary: 4 Stars
Very dreamy movie. Not for people who like straight forward movies. This one you have to "be with"; A lot of blurs and random music and sounds, like contemporary art. Yet it does makes sense if you follow closely. Besicaly there is this constant and ongoing turmoil of a crash of one boy on another, and coming-of-age and coming out dealing with. A boy is obviously gay, likes putting on lipstick and likes wearing a wig. He also likes touching himself, while thinking of a boy of his choosing. Yet he doesn't want to think he's gay, because gay is a label and hatred at school. All of the time I was waiting for this kid to kill himself. Middle-school is tough. One thing I didn't get though, is the kid's voice is rather mature, and he looks sorta late 14 if not 15, but definitely not 13. This movie is definitely worth watching, as it shows how fragile yet beautiful life is. Ending is strange, if not abrupt, leaving me want more out of the movie, if not happy ending of some sort. Maybe it *was* a happy ending. . . Oh, and that was one huge cat.Movie Review: Tame pussies I have known
Summary: 4 Stars
The movie centres on Logan, a quiet loner who doesn't fit in at school. Most of the other kids ignore Logan but one or two actively dislike him and make it abundantly clear. A geeky boy called Joey is Logan's only friend, although all they really have in common is that they have nothing in common with the rest of the kids at school. They're really just two lonely kids thrown togther by the need for friendship and yet unable to completely cross the divdies that seperate them from each other and from everyone else. Then, one day, one of the in-crowd, a popular older called Rodeo, notices Logan and Logan's life is changed forever.
This is a movie that tries hard to be stylish and relevant and it mostly succeeds. the production values are excellent as is the acting, especially of the three main characters. Although deliberately stylized the movie does manage to caputure the awkwardness and infatuations that lay at the essence of adolescence. In short it smells like teen spirit but liberally doused in mum's perfume.