I really loved the orange trees in Juliane Moore's home. How would I do this?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 5, 2023 7:01 PM |
It was a long Gucci ad.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 5, 2023 7:02 PM |
Way too much "fashion" but Colin is wonderful.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 5, 2023 7:02 PM |
Great movie. Very stylish. And Nicholas Hoult showed his cute ass.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 5, 2023 7:03 PM |
the set design is gorgeous. Firth's and Moore's homes were perfection.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 5, 2023 7:04 PM |
SPOLIER ALERT:
Confused about the ending.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 5, 2023 7:05 PM |
Stylish, yes, but also very sensitively directed. I thought Ford did justice to the Isherwood novel. There’s also a knowing use of some very typical Los Angeles locations.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 5, 2023 7:07 PM |
R6 He dies.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 5, 2023 7:07 PM |
The houses featured in the film were just as much the stars as Firth and Moore.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 5, 2023 7:09 PM |
For people who know Los Angeles, Christopher Isherwood lived on Adelaide Drive in Santa Monica. I was a guest there a number of times when I was young. As far as I know, Isherwood’s boyfriend/husband still lives there.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 5, 2023 7:11 PM |
R10 I should have mentioned that Isherwood’s other half was/is the artist, Don Bachardy.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 5, 2023 7:14 PM |
I did not realize Bachardy was still alive.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 5, 2023 7:17 PM |
Love the movie but it has some differences to Isherwoods original story. But my most favorit thing is the entire soundtrack.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 5, 2023 7:17 PM |
Nick Hoult was at the zenith of his twinkish beauty.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 5, 2023 7:18 PM |
Beautifully filmed but I bust out laughing at the end. The rest of the audience were wiping away tears. I guess I’m missing a sensitivity chip.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 5, 2023 7:21 PM |
I know that I did see it as I am a Colin Firth fan, but I honestly don’t remember anything about the film.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 5, 2023 7:24 PM |
Tom Ford is better at making sunglasses than directing films.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 5, 2023 7:28 PM |
I'm with r17. I remember thinking Colin did an admirable job, and that it was about a gay couple (one of which dies) and the fallout. Julianne Moore was strikingly stylish.
That's really it. Oh, and I lived in SF at the time and saw it at a theater in Japantown that featured a bar. No, I didn't get drunk lol.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 5, 2023 7:29 PM |
I’d loved the book so I approached the movie with trepidation. I remember being surprised by how much I liked it. Found Colin Firth heartbreaking in this; Julianne Moore, OTOH, was fine but I’ve been more impressed by other performances of hers.
I haven’t seen it since but I think I’d enjoy the trip down Memory Lane. On many levels. I lived in Los Angeles for a few years way back when. No, there was zero overlap between the characters’ lives and mine. But sometimes I miss LA. At least, the LA of my memory.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 5, 2023 7:31 PM |
I fell for it. Thought it was a sensitive exploration of grief, and the style, while beautiful, was used to underscore the emotions of its characters and the garishness of LA at the time. So, not just ornamental.
This piece of the score is just gorgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 5, 2023 7:31 PM |
R12 I wasn’t sure if Bachardy was still living, or not. I googled his name to see if he was still alive. He’s 88 years old. He and Isherwood were guests at my parents house when I was young. My father was in the film business, and Isherwood occasionally did touch-up work on scripts, as I recall. I was too young to be a social friend of Isherwood and Bachardy at that time. However, in my late teens and early twenties, I worked out at the Bruce Conner/Al Hinds gym in West LA. Isherwood was also a member there and that’s where we became friendly.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 5, 2023 7:32 PM |
Couldn't get through it, even for another of my fantasy girlfriends, Julianne Moore.
It was just too slow. Sorry.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 5, 2023 7:35 PM |
"Bruce Conner/Al Hinds gym in West LA."
oh if THAT steamroom could talk.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 5, 2023 7:39 PM |
That’s cool, Dickie Greenleaf/r22! Any stories from those days?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | April 5, 2023 7:47 PM |
The movie was memorable to me because it was the first time I ever saw Jon Kortajarena.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 5, 2023 8:29 PM |
I think I liked it at the time, but I don't remember anything about it.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 5, 2023 8:29 PM |
R25 No, no special stories that I can share. DL really isn’t the best forum for that kind of thing. Just a few inconsequential things: the gym where I became friends with Isherwood was a place for serious workouts, though not Gold’s-level bodybuilding. It had a section for women, separated from the men’s area by a wall. All I can remember of Isherwood there is him standing and talking with other people; I can’t remember ever seeing him actually working out. We were both members there for YEARS. One of the last times I saw Isherwood was when a group of us went to see a revival of West Side Story at the old Fox Theater on Lincoln Blvd. He was uncharacteristically quiet that evening. Isherwood and Gore Vidal were known to be good friends. I knew Gore and his nephew, Burr Steers, but never saw them in the same company. That’s all.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 5, 2023 8:33 PM |
[quote] Beautifully filmed but I bust out laughing at the end. The rest of the audience were wiping away tears. I guess I’m missing a sensitivity chip
This is off-topic, but you’re not alone R16. I’ve been in a few very serious venues (melodramatic films, deeply somber presentations, etc.) and have experienced what seemed to me in the moment as highly awkward or inappropriate behavior like this and have always wondered why someone would do that in such a setting.
Laughing audibly at a sobering or traumatic moment for other people seems incredibly insensitive. Is the offending person simply unable to contain themselves? Or, they just don’t give a shit?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | April 5, 2023 8:47 PM |
it's on Hoopla, free. Check it out.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 5, 2023 8:48 PM |
I liked it but left me somewhat cold, while i loved the book. Sometimes ramping it all up to luxury, gorgeous scenery and angora sweaters does not work. I remember in the book the role played by Julianne Moore was sort of a hippy like woman living in a run down house, not this diva creature out of a thirties ballroom. I think it didn’t help the movie, it turned it into an advertisement.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 5, 2023 9:07 PM |
The score is effective, but not one I listen to very often. Abel Korzeniowski is the composer. I would love to hear Thomas Newman, or even the late Elmer Bernstein's scores for this film.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 5, 2023 9:24 PM |
Colin Firth was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award but lost to Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | April 5, 2023 9:27 PM |
Too Tom Ford
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 5, 2023 9:28 PM |
Any Vidal stories r28?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 5, 2023 9:29 PM |
Joyce Dewitt woulda been purrrrrrfect as any character in the moveeeeee.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 5, 2023 9:55 PM |
R35 I used to share anecdotes about well-known people on DL but I’ve stopped that since there really isn’t a serious audience here for that kind of thing. My grandfather and father worked in the film business so I was exposed to quite a few famous people, but the mood on DL is that it’s just gossip, and suspect at that. I will say just two memorable things about Gore Vidal, both of which I have previously related on DL and are part of my lasting memory of him. I once had dinner with him and 8 or 10 other people at Musso & Frank right before the Oscars one year. Most of us were smugly sure Brokeback Mountain was a shoe-in for best picture. Gore sat there smiling wryly as we all pontificated. He finally spoke and said there was no way it would win against “the votes of all those technicians who live in Sherman Oaks.” He also mentioned Whoopi Goldberg’s campaigning on behalf of Crash. He was right, of course. This was Gore, the clear thinker. But it was only a few years later that he began indulging in crackpot ideas and conspiracy theories. Some of these I heard first hand, but most I just read about. He became a very unpleasant person and not someone I could associate with. It was also at this time that he turned on his nephew and changed his will. That’s it.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 6, 2023 12:04 AM |
Reading between the lines, I think Vidal became very depressed after Howard died, he was bitter that he was forgotten by the world, and descended into alcoholism and dementia. He seemed to have suffered from internalised homophobia and from the after effects of a narcissistic and unloving mother, thus the grand egocentric act he put on was borne out of insecurity.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 6, 2023 4:31 AM |
R38 I agree with everything you wrote about Gore Vidal. I think he was very bitter that he didn’t get the critical acclaim he thought he deserved and, deep down, he realized that he wasn’t a great writer. He was particularly vindictive towards Truman Capote because he realized Capote was a great writer who was held in high esteem by the critical community. I’m sure Gore was secretly pleased that Capote squandered his talent and destroyed himself as a writer and person. In what was a very odd reaction, Gore actually seemed affronted that Capote had the temerity to die in Los Angeles, which Gore considered to be his town.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | April 6, 2023 4:38 PM |
Capote was the better writer, but he was effeminate, so in Vidals terms he was a 'fag'. Vidal saw himself as a masculine all American boy aristocrat. Vidal was great at political theory, and a good entertainer, but not the greatest writer. He destroyed himself really.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | April 6, 2023 11:57 PM |
What did Vidal write that was actually good? Wasn't he pro commie?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | April 7, 2023 12:12 AM |
Vidal's non -fiction is good but his fiction is lousy.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | April 7, 2023 12:28 AM |
They're just a couple of fags
by Anonymous | reply 43 | April 7, 2023 12:29 AM |
Seriously, does anyone here have orange trees in your house? I would like to do this, if it is possible. Tell me how.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | April 7, 2023 1:29 AM |
R44, thank you for bringing this thread back to what REALLY matters.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | April 7, 2023 1:38 AM |
The film was one long fashion ad.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | April 7, 2023 1:41 AM |
This guy tells you how but he is boring to listen to.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | April 7, 2023 1:44 AM |
[quote] It was also at this time that he turned on his nephew and changed his will.
Yeah, but that was for reasons that are well known to him.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | April 7, 2023 1:47 AM |
Nicholas Hoult looked pretty, but he was so wooden.
Jamie Bell was originally cast in Nick’s role, and I would have rather had him. He’s not as pretty as Hoult, but he is a better actor and he would have brought more sexiness, heat, and charisma to the part. Oh well.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | April 7, 2023 1:57 AM |
[r45] your welcome
by Anonymous | reply 50 | April 7, 2023 2:19 AM |
Nikky Hoult looked like a girl from the 1950s in this shitty movie.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | April 7, 2023 2:30 AM |
I’m enjoying all of this. Everyone keep going.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | April 7, 2023 2:58 AM |
I saw it on a flight from Beijing to Chicago. Four times. One of the hardest cries I’ve ever had. And Firth was breathtaking.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | April 7, 2023 4:16 AM |
I saw it a month after my partner of 23 years died. So it made quite an impression.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | April 7, 2023 4:41 AM |
I imagine if Tom Ford were to shoot himself, he'd also do so in a sleeping bag so as not to leave a mess.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | April 7, 2023 5:21 AM |
Hoult is so cute but they shouldn't have made him do that ridiculous accent, wear bronzer or dye his hair. Cast someone else if you want a sun-kissed Californian.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | April 7, 2023 5:40 AM |
Enjoyed the movie, mostly for Colin Firth.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | April 7, 2023 5:44 AM |
Gay reddit has a very prudish obsession with age differences. They think a 20 year old dating a 28 year old is pretty much the same as child molestation.
I usually chime in and tell them about the age difference between Isherwood and Bachardy. That shuts them up for a while.
I'm guessing there are very few actual gay men posting on reddit these days. It's probably mostly teenage girls larping as gay men.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | April 7, 2023 5:54 AM |
The movie was annoying as shit. The ending - OH COME ON!!! It was miserable depressing all the way through and then we get that. Gay men are never allowed to be happy on screen. Puke.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | April 7, 2023 6:19 AM |
Shifty movie
by Anonymous | reply 60 | April 7, 2023 6:31 AM |
[quote] Colin Firth was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award but lost to Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart.
He won the BAFTA though. In fact him losing for A Single Man is probably what helped him win the Oscar the next year for The King's Speech. At the BAFTAs, he won both awards so he won twice in a row.
Julianne Moore deserved a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | April 7, 2023 6:45 AM |
He was great in both movies, r61, but I felt his Oscar was a make up for not having won it for A Single Man. He was incredible in that movie.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | April 7, 2023 1:16 PM |
for the 2010 BAFTA Colin was up against
Andy Serkis – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll George Clooney – Up in the Air Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
by Anonymous | reply 63 | April 7, 2023 2:00 PM |
The scene in the movie where the hot sailor Matthew Goode is introduced at the bar was so well done -with Blue Moon playing in the background.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | April 7, 2023 6:48 PM |
[quote]He was great in both movies, [R61], but I felt his Oscar was a make up for not having won it for A Single Man. He was incredible in that movie.
The King's Speech was overrated. It was OK, but not so fantastic that it deserved all the award nominations that it got.
That said, Colin did a good job with the material he was given. But I agree, the Oscar he got was really for A Single Man.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | April 7, 2023 6:59 PM |
Being a Colin Firth fan, I enjoyed King’s Speech, r65, but it definitely does not live up to the hype on rewatch.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | April 7, 2023 7:02 PM |
I saw it and thought it was very stylish and fairly well cone, but I was highly annoyed with Tom Ford for manipulating the story to make the main character's story into grief porn. The most significant changes, among many smaller ones, are that he was *not* planning to kill himself and his late partner's family did *not* reject him or bar him from the funeral.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | April 7, 2023 7:02 PM |
um, "well done," not "well cone."
by Anonymous | reply 68 | April 7, 2023 7:02 PM |
Paint drying.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | April 7, 2023 7:05 PM |
[quote]Being a Colin Firth fan, I enjoyed King’s Speech, [R65], but it definitely does not live up to the hype on rewatch.
Couldn't agree more! Rewatched it recently and was scratching my head wondering why everyone had raved about it so much in 2010 when it came out. It had its moments, but really wasn't deserving of awards nominations.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | April 7, 2023 7:17 PM |
Julianne Moore was excellent as usual
by Anonymous | reply 71 | April 7, 2023 7:42 PM |
Seeing Hoult say "yes... Sir..." to Firth, I'll have to admit, got me hard.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | April 7, 2023 7:50 PM |
[quote]Julianne Moore was excellent as usual
Seriously?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | April 7, 2023 7:56 PM |
I saw it recently. I thought it was boring.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | April 7, 2023 7:59 PM |
How is Julianne's English accent?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | April 7, 2023 8:11 PM |
I wanted Moore's pink cigarettes.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | April 8, 2023 1:58 AM |
I remember when this came out Tom Ford talked a lot about Julianne Moore's character being somewhat invisible to the opposite sex and women in general losing their sex appeal when they hit a certain age.
I don't know what age her character is supposed to be. Late 40s maybe? I remember listening to that interview thinking: MARY!
Don't talk about our Julianne Moore like she's yesterday's catch of the day!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | April 8, 2023 2:13 AM |
Great performance. But it looks like a perfume commerical.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | April 8, 2023 2:38 AM |
A very thoughtful review of the movie with reference to the book.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | April 8, 2023 3:29 AM |
The poster is like what Joe and Mika think they look like….
by Anonymous | reply 81 | April 8, 2023 4:44 AM |
R7 Isherwood didn't write 'a novel'.
It was a short story, almost a monologue.
He dictated it extemporaneously to a Dictaphone and a typist after consulting with that other overblown blowhard Gore Vidal.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | April 8, 2023 4:53 AM |
R10, R11 And did he lay a hand on you?
Or did he pay you money to pose for him in your underpants (without touching)?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | April 8, 2023 4:56 AM |
[quote] Love the movie but it has some differences to Isherwoods original story.
What were they? I had trouble following the VERY flimsy plot.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | April 8, 2023 5:00 AM |
[quote] It was a long Gucci ad.
Too long. American homosexual (and Baz Luhrmann) movie directors are OK on the visuals but utterly inept at handling characters.
Thank goodness this movie had a genuine English thespian in the star role who obviously did all the work.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | April 8, 2023 5:06 AM |
[quote] Sometimes ramping it all up to luxury, gorgeous scenery and angora sweaters does not work.
The character in the original story, George, is old, unloved and unlovable who wears dowdy clothes.
The movie version has handsome big-jawed Colin Firth wearing clothes as stylish as Milan couture.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | April 8, 2023 5:10 AM |
I’d love to see more of the Julianne Moore character, that would make an interesting women’s picture.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | April 8, 2023 6:05 AM |
I saw the movie first, then read the novella. I was struck at how modern and full that short book was. I thought the movie was a postcard of the book. I was disappointed that the anger of the book was lost, things were made bland. The book has a very diverse cast (and it means something through creating a larger world in which our hero moves)- lost in the film. The two main characters in the film are not attractive in the book. They were glamorised so much as to be unrecognisable. One on the neighbours of Colin Firth's character informs him that her children refer to him as 'that man' (in doing so gently chiding him for being an old crank). The Juliane Moore character is an unpleasant drunk. How the fuck did we get from what I felt was a vibrant slice of life to such a soppy weep-fest? I suppose it happens through 'stylistic choices'.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | April 8, 2023 11:56 AM |
Powerful story of grief and homophobia. It made me a little mad because the Firth character was not stronger.
When I was a child I recall feeling the same about a beloved grandmother who completely collapsed in every way a person can collapse when my grandfather died. She never came out of it.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | April 8, 2023 12:23 PM |
What did people think about the added suicidal plans that weren't in the book?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | April 8, 2023 1:20 PM |
No one else seemed to notice, R90. It pissed me (R67) off. You might also consult the piece at R80. That change had major ramifications.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | April 8, 2023 6:48 PM |
Yes. I remember watching it when it premiered. It was a very good movie.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | April 8, 2023 7:09 PM |
[quote] How is Julianne's English accent?
A bit spotty, as always.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | April 8, 2023 7:20 PM |
Boring.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | April 8, 2023 7:24 PM |
I enjoyed the film immensely, the ending I never saw coming, and found it moving. Moore tried a bit too hard to be a posh Brit. I loved the way the film looked and Firth played his role perfectly. A humane film, and worth watching. His relationship with the student was ultimately touching.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | April 8, 2023 7:27 PM |
Charley was decidedly different from the book and much more glamorous. Nicholas Hoult is much hotter than the way the guy is described in the book
by Anonymous | reply 96 | April 8, 2023 7:29 PM |
R90 Dumb emotionalism from the amateur-director.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | April 8, 2023 9:41 PM |
Exactly. He shunned deeper themes and instead amped up the sentiment.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | April 9, 2023 12:24 AM |
I don't remember much of this shitty movie but it was apparent to be nothing more than an ode to Tom Ford's own shorn and bleached anus. A microcosm of fake celebrity worship in general. A bunch of nothings and nobodies in love with their own shorn and bleached anuses in lieu of having anything of marketable skills or value.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | April 9, 2023 12:38 AM |
R82 Are you sure you’re talking about the same book the rest of us are? My paperback copy of ‘A Single Man’ is 192 pages. Isn’t that long enough to be considered a Noel , if only a short one? I certainly wouldn’t call that a‘short story’.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | April 9, 2023 1:52 AM |
^ ‘novel’, not Noel.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | April 9, 2023 2:17 AM |
Yes, it is a novel. A novella at a stretch, though it's named as a novel everywhere I've looked. Definitely not a short story, and definitely not a difference to act superior over, r82.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | April 9, 2023 2:19 AM |
Why hasn't the Cancel Culture Generation banned this Isherwood story yet?
it contains a Chinese character named Alexander Mong!
by Anonymous | reply 104 | April 9, 2023 3:14 AM |
has anyone seen orange trees in a person's home? How the fuck did this go out of style?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | April 9, 2023 3:20 AM |
My family had orange and grapefruit trees when I was growing up.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | April 9, 2023 3:24 AM |
R107 Did your servants bring them into the house in large pots when they bore fruit?
by Anonymous | reply 108 | April 9, 2023 3:28 AM |
Yes and when they polished the floor they had to move the trees.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | April 9, 2023 3:33 AM |
[r107] Tell me everything
by Anonymous | reply 110 | April 9, 2023 3:42 AM |
Orange and grapefruit trees need full sun.
Google says the calamondin orange (Citrofortunella mitis) can be grown indoors but its fruit are small and sour.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | April 9, 2023 3:52 AM |
do you bring bee into your home? it seems a bit high maintenance.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | April 9, 2023 4:43 AM |
did this character wheel these orange tree in after sundown? Is this what you have to do? So it is really growing orange trees is a moveable pot, right? Is this doable?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | April 9, 2023 4:45 AM |
^ It's doable if you're a handsome, stylish well-groomed actor living in a stylish well-groomed house wearing stylish well-groomed clothes in a stylish well-groomed movie by an amateur director.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 9, 2023 4:48 AM |
i also like colin firth's house. A cabin in the city. The set direction and design was great.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 9, 2023 4:51 AM |
colin firth = so handsome
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 9, 2023 5:03 AM |
R106 Nice. Latinx are known to love those kinda trees. They need several in their homes.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 9, 2023 5:16 AM |
I remember there's a passage in the book where he's observing the nuclear family who lives near him out of his bathroom window while taking a dump. That didn't make it into the movie.
Colin should have won the Oscar for this rather than The King's Speech IMO
by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 9, 2023 10:25 AM |
I loved it. Beautiful performances, music, sets. Tom Ford needs to make more movies. He brings an aesthetic that's missing from other Hollywood movies.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | April 9, 2023 11:05 AM |
He did make that one with Aaron Taylor Johnson taking a shit on his front porch toilet, r119. Now [italic]there's[/italic] an aesthetic.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 9, 2023 1:32 PM |
It was absolutely disgusting R120, took me til the stills of Aaron's big swinging pendulous gorgeous cock were released for me to wank to him again. Tom Ford has a lot to answer for.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | April 9, 2023 1:56 PM |
I like to imagine the casting couch sessions Tom Ford had with Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor Johnson.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 9, 2023 3:33 PM |
I doubt it for either. Nicholas was very popular after Skins and it wasn't like A Single Man was a big budget star-vehicle. Tom may have added in the nudity though for his and our viewing pleasure. I wonder if he let him wear a cock sock
by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 9, 2023 3:39 PM |
R82 Oh, come on! A Single Man is a novel by every definition. It’s carefully crafted and written. It most certainly wasn’t “dictated extemporaneously” nor was it “a monologue.” Either you don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re confusing it with something else entirely.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 9, 2023 5:09 PM |
R82, R124 OK, I’m the snob who’s whining about this small story and I’m the snob complaining that Isherwood isn’t a proper novelist.
Look at the words in the movie poster below. That’s the opening sentence of his Berlin Stories of 1939. Isherwood acknowledges he’s a passive person reporting on things that he sees.
I say he’s passive though I don’t know the sexual details of his decade-long relationship with Wystan Auden in which they wrote three plays together. But everyone who knew them could easily tell which one of them had the powerful intelligence and which of them was the intellectually-lightweight twink.
If you look at his publishing list you’ll see the first two publications report on his childhood, the next two report on his Germany holiday with Auden. His next one is pure autobiography, talking about himself. His next three are talking about his investigations into mysticism. The next one after the war recounts his experiences in a film studio, then more travel diaries. The two stories from 1954 and 1962 is another self portrait but he actually attempts a cast of characters and attempts a plot.
‘A Single Man’ arrives in 1964.
He was anointed as ‘a gay guru’ in 1966 which gave his publishers license to bring out more journalism and more regurgitated versions of what had came before. In 1971 he brought out a 528 page volume discussing his mother and father.
And after that even more diaries.
I say that ‘A Single Man’ is OK as it is— it’s a longish short story or a movie scenario which can be read in 150 minutes. But I (and Graham Greene) can’t consider it as a ‘novel’ which in our opinion includes some intellectual content and some careful cause-and-effect plotting based on the interplay of believable, two-dimensional characters.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | April 10, 2023 5:08 AM |
[quote] staring Colin Firth.
Doesn’t he realize that’s rude?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | April 10, 2023 5:19 AM |
r125 Are you on the spectrum by any chance? In any case, you need to remember where you are and get a fucking life!
by Anonymous | reply 127 | April 10, 2023 7:11 AM |
R125 Although I don’t agree with you at all, I appreciate the care you have shown in your detailed response. You’re probably aware that E. M. Forster said young Christopher Isherwood held “the future of the English novel in his hands.” Unfortunately, if he held it, he proceeded to drop it.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | April 10, 2023 10:36 PM |
Perhaps the pentultimate example of how to do orange trees in your home - check out the Orangery Palace in Sansoucci Park , Potsdam, Germany . Built by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. You can probably pick up some effective tips from that.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | April 10, 2023 11:34 PM |
Tom Ford needs to make another movie.
I’m far more interested in what he will turn out next, rather than Sam Mendes or Joe Wright, but here we are.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | April 11, 2023 3:19 PM |
I actually liked Nocturnal Animals, although I am in the minority.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | April 11, 2023 6:38 PM |
A bit twee.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | April 11, 2023 8:04 PM |
I haven't seen A Single Man in many years. I have fond recollections of the film, and kinda don't want to spoil those by watching it again with a more critical (cynical?) eye.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | April 11, 2023 9:57 PM |
[quote] A bit twee.
Yes, and the word 'stylish' has been used ten times in this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | April 11, 2023 11:03 PM |
this movie is free on the Hoopla.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | April 11, 2023 11:39 PM |
[quote] I really loved the orange trees in Juliane Moore's home. How would I do this?
You need to copy King Louis XIV!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | April 15, 2023 10:19 AM |
It was like window shopping.
Nocturnal Animals was a much better film.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | April 15, 2023 11:04 AM |
[quote] It was like window shopping.
It was like a 90 minute clothes advertisement.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | April 15, 2023 11:25 AM |
It’s set in the 1960s? You can’t have sex with your students now (appropriately).
by Anonymous | reply 139 | April 15, 2023 11:40 AM |
He didn't sleep with his student
by Anonymous | reply 140 | April 15, 2023 12:11 PM |
He was lusting over his student for half an hour.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | April 15, 2023 12:17 PM |
If a student looks like Nicholas Hoult I think it would be weird not to lust after him. In the novel I don't think he has much lust for Kenny, I really need to reread!
by Anonymous | reply 142 | April 15, 2023 12:20 PM |
Ok R140 on 2023 it's not permitted to suggest that your student undress so that you can gaze upon his naked body. Which is getting sexual with your student.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | April 15, 2023 12:47 PM |