Gay Cinema Classics (5 Films) - 3-DVD Box Set ( The Crying Game / Milk / Brokeback Mountain / Kiss of the Spider Woman / The Kids Are Alright )

Gay Cinema Classics (5 Films) - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Crying Game / Milk / Brokeback Mountain / Kiss of the Spider Woman / The Kids Are Alright
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
576 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1979 - 2008 and produced in:
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
Canada ( USA, Canada )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Neil Jordan
Gus Van Sant
Ang Lee
Hector Babenco
Jeff Stein

Written By:
Neil Jordan
Dustin Lance Black
Annie Proulx
Larry McMurtry
Manuel Puig
Leonard Schrader
Jeff Stein

Actors:
Forest Whitaker ..... Jody
Miranda Richardson ..... Jude
Stephen Rea ..... Fergus
Adrian Dunbar ..... Maguire
Breffni McKenna ..... Tinker
Joe Savino ..... Eddie
Birdy Sweeney ..... Tommy
Jaye Davidson ..... Dil
Andrée Bernard ..... Jane
Jim Broadbent ..... Col
Ralph Brown ..... Dave
Tony Slattery ..... Deveroux
Jack Carr ..... Franknum
Josephine White ..... Bar Performer 1
Shar Campbell ..... Bar Performer 2
Sean Penn ..... Harvey Milk
Emile Hirsch ..... Cleve Jones
Josh Brolin ..... Dan White
Diego Luna ..... Jack Lira
James Franco ..... Scott Smith
Alison Pill ..... Anne Kronenberg
Victor Garber ..... Mayor Moscone
Denis O'Hare ..... John Briggs
Joseph Cross ..... Dick Pabich
Stephen Spinella ..... Rick Stokes
Lucas Grabeel ..... Danny Nicoletta
Brandon Boyce ..... Jim Rivaldo
Howard Rosenman ..... David Goodstein
Kelvin Yu ..... Michael Wong
Jeff Koons ..... Art Agnos
Heath Ledger ..... Ennis Del Mar
Jake Gyllenhaal ..... Jack Twist
Randy Quaid ..... Joe Aguirre
Valerie Planche ..... Waitress
Dave Trimble ..... Basque
Victor Reyes ..... Chilean Sheepherder #1
Lachlan Mackintosh ..... Chilean Sheepherder #2
Michelle Williams ..... Alma
Larry Reese ..... Jolly Minister
Marty Antonini ..... Timmy
Tom Carey ..... Rodeo Clown
Dan McDougall ..... Bartender #1
Don Bland ..... Biker #1
Steven Cree Molison ..... Biker #2
Anne Hathaway ..... Lureen Newsome
William Hurt ..... Luis Molina
Raul Julia ..... Valentin Arregui
Sonia Braga ..... Leni Lamaison / Marta / Spider Woman
José Lewgoy ..... Warden
Milton Gonçalves ..... Secret Policeman
Míriam Pires ..... Mother
Nuno Leal Maia ..... Gabriel
Fernando Torres ..... Americo
Patricio Bisso ..... Greta
Herson Capri ..... Werner
Denise Dumont ..... Michele
Nildo Parente ..... Leader of Resistance
Antônio Petrin ..... Clubfoot
Wilson Grey ..... Flunky
Miguel Falabella ..... Lieutenant
Roger Daltrey ..... Himself (The Who)
John Entwistle ..... Himself (The Who)
Keith Moon ..... Himself (The Who)
Pete Townshend ..... Himself (The Who)
Tom Smothers ..... Himself
Jimmy O'Neill ..... Himself
Russell Harty ..... Himself
Melvyn Bragg ..... Himself
Ringo Starr ..... Himself
Mary Ann Zabresky ..... Herself
Michael Leckebusch ..... Himself
Barry Fantoni ..... Himself
Jeremy Paxman ..... Himself
Bob Pridden ..... Himself
Keith Richards ..... Himself

Synopsis:

The Crying Game (1992)
A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.

Milk (2008)
The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cell mates in a South American prison. Luis, a homosexual, is found guilty of immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. During the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another.

The Kids Are Alright (1979)
From the early black and white days to their colourful hedonistic era, you will Rock! See them at their most creative, and destructive, and experience The Who: Here!

The Crying Game (1992)
The IRA kidnaps a British soldier, Jody, who is left mainly under the guard of Fergus. Gradually a rapport and understanding grows up between the two men. When Jody dies, Fergus comes to Britain to look after Jody's beautiful lover, Dil, because of the guilt he feels and as it was one of Jody's last requests.

Milk (2008)
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Valentin Arregui and Luis Molina are unlikely cell mates in a Latin American prison. Valentin, a journalist, is a political prisoner who was working for a leftist anti-government revolutionary group. While in prison, he is frequently tortured in order to cough up information on those with whom he is working. That includes the new prisoner in the cell across the block from his. Valentin has yet to provide the authorities with any useful information. Molina, a stereotypically gay window dresser, is imprisoned on morals charges: having homosexual sex with a minor. He states that he has no political affiliations. To pass the time, Molina recounts aloud story-lines from his favorite movies, usually those of a romantic nature. The current movie of which he is telling is a wartime romantic thriller, which in reality is a World War II Nazi propaganda film, about which he doesn't care as he focuses on the romance part of the story. Because of the reason for his imprisonment, Valentin doesn't much like that Molina is telling a story produced by a repressive regime, but gets caught up in Molina's story-telling regardless. The unlikely cell mates form an equally unlikely friendship based on their mutual support for each other. Molina later admits that he has fallen in love with Valentin. What Valentin does not know is that Molina has been co-opted by the prison warden and the secret police to befriend Valentin so that he can get information on and report back to them about the leftist group with which Valentin is working. Molina's reward is early parole. The question becomes on whose side is Molina really supporting if either.

The Kids Are Alright (1979)
Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an ""inside look"" at this famous rock group, ""The Who"". It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group to its major hit ""Who Are You"", and features the last performance of drummer Keith Moon just prior to his death.

The Crying Game (1992)
In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA ""volunteer"" who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker), stationed in Northern Ireland. The IRA hopes to use Jody as a bargaining chip to win the release of IRA operatives behind bars, but, while guarding Jody, Fergus becomes fast friends with his prisoner. Jody makes Fergus promise him that if he dies, Fegus will look in on his girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), and see if she's all right. Jody escapes, and Fergus doesn't have the heart to shoot him; as fate would have it, Jody runs from the woods into a street only to be run over by a British police vehicle, which then flushes out the IRA compound. Fergus escapes to London, where he's wanted by the law for Jody's kidnapping and also by his former girlfriend, IRA operative Jude (Miranda Richardson), who thinks he knows too much to fall into the hands of the British authorities. Good to his word, Fergus tracks down Dil, and soon the two outcasts find themselves entering into a love affair, although Fergus discovers that Dil is not the sort of woman he thought she was. Writer/director Neil Jordan won an Academy Award for his screenplay; the title song, which was a U.K. hit for Dave Berry in 1965, was re-recorded for the film by one-time Culture Club vocalist Boy George with backing by the Pet Shop Boys.

Milk (2008)
Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fronted by singer Anita Bryant. Closer to home, Milk has a continuing struggle with his fellow supervisor, Dan White, a staunch social conservative.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
In 1963, two young men hire on as ranch hands in the Wyoming mountains. During the long months of isolation, an unusual bond starts to develop between them, one which they are only vaguely aware of - until one night when it rises to the surface in a passionate encounter. When the season ends, they part ways, only to realize the true depth of their feelings. Thus begins a decades-long affair that the two of them desperately try to hide from those around them - one which will prove simultaneously beautiful and devastating.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Political prisoner Valentin Arregui (Raul Julia) and homosexual pederast Luis Molina (William Hurt) share a Brazilian prison cell in this fantastical drama from the book by Manuel Puig. Sensitive and flamboyant, Molina helps pass the time by recounting memories from one of his favorite films, a wartime romantic thriller that just may also be a Nazi propaganda film. He weaves the characters into an ongoing narrative meant to spur Valentin's imagination and distract him from the brutal realities of political imprisonment and separation from the woman he loves. Hard around the edges, and willing to die for his political principles, Valentin nonetheless allows Molina to penetrate some of his defensive shell. An odd friendship forms between the two vastly different prisoners, the dreamer and the activist. As the narrative unfolds, it becomes clear that Valentin is being poisoned by his captors, to compel him to reveal names and secrets, and that Molina may have other agendas that belie his honesty and openness with Valentin. The intense character study builds toward a surprising conclusion. Kiss of the Spider Woman received Oscar nominations for best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay, and Hurt took home the best actor trophy for his portrayal of the soulful and conflicted Molina. The film was later adapted into a Broadway musical.

The Kids Are Alright (1979)
The classic rock group The Who are featured in this 1979 documentary about the career of the group. It is enhanced by rare footage of the performers, including a television interview with the later-deceased Keith Moon. Highlights include footage from many of the band's early performances. Among the many songs featured are "Magic Bus," "Won't Get Fooled Again," "My Generation," "Young Man's Blues," "Happy Jack," and excerpts from the innovative rock-opera Tommy.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 December, 2013.