Little Ashes provides a look at the 1920’s love affair between painter Salvadore Dali (Robert Pattinson) and poet Javier Beltrán (Federico García Lorca). While in school the two become attracted to one another but drift apart as Dali seems to have problems with the relationship and a desire to go to Paris to achieve wealth and fame. General impression: an OK movie but seemed awfully long.
The Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul, the movie, not the statue, has Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) a struggling young writer finally having a chance to sell his somewhat autobiographical script. The complication is that the producer wants to replace the character of his dying male lover with a woman to make it more sellable. Further complicating things is Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the bi-sexual producer, starting an affair with Robert. Then of course, Jeffrey’s wife, a former screen writer, becomes fascinated with Robert and starts stalking him anonymously in online chat rooms, eventually finding out more than she really wanted to know.
Ryan O’Neal was Dr. Howard Bannister in the 1970’s film What’s Up Doc? trying to win a grant to study his musical igneous rocks and caught up in a whirlwhind in the form of Barbra Streisand who’s Judy Maxwell turns his life upside down. The scene where he’s in his boxers and bowtie is an all time favorite of mine. And it’s still a pretty funny movie.
The third installment of the “Eating Out” series, All You Can Eat, continues with the confusion of who’s who with straight guys pretending to be gay for various reasons. Casey (Daniel Skelton) comes to town and falls for Zack (Chris Salvatore). When Casey is too shy to approach Zack, inveterate fag hag Tiffany (Rebekah Kochan) convinces him to meet Zack online and further urges using pictures of her ex-boyfriend and stripper Ryan (Michael E.R. Walker) in a fake profile to get to know Zack. Then before Casey can make his move, Ryan comes back to town and the confusion begins. Amusing with lots of skin.
