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It's all wrong but it's alright?
Mart Crowley (born in Vicksburg, MS in 1935, raised Catholic) is a “one-hit wonder,” the hit being the 1968 Off-Broadway play “The Boys in the Band.” He produced the movie version with the New York cast. The 1970 movie was directed by William Friedkin (born in Chicago in... Read full review »
One thing you can say for masturbation; you certainly don't have to look your best.
I was reading about a story in The New York Post reporting that J. David Enright IV, a New York socialite and millionaire who is suing the Catholic Church for making him gay. No I'm not making this up, some loser rich guy is blaming a priest not for just molesting him, which he seems to not... Read full review »
Band with No Fun
I'm soooooo excited! It's getting down to the wire, people. In just one week, I will be perched in my second-level seat at the Staples Center here in Los Angeles, on two consecutive nights no doubt, witnessing with pure joy the Pop Cultural Phenomenon that is Madonna in her earth-shattering best... Read full review »
Not a time warp, just great dialog
I absolutely have loved this movie from the first time I saw it when I was about 10 (long time ago in a faraway land). I'm not gay, not male, not white, but it had such great dialog which was honest. Not placid one dimensional characters, for the time ground breaking and I think still timely. It is... Read full review »
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Boys in the Band DVD
Based on Matt Crowley's play of the same name THE BOYS IN THE BAND is a hilarious farce that focuses on the personal mores and identity politics of a group of gay friends at a private birthday party in Manhattan. Released one year after Federico Fellini's SATYRICON BOYS reflects director William Friedkin's youthful admiration of the personal European films many American directors were emulating at the time. Michael Kenneth Nelson is throwing a birthday party for his scathingly self-deprecating friend Harold Leonard Frey and the exclusive circle of friends invited are all gay men all of whom suffer some form of the identity crises imposed by an intolerant society that requires complicit suppression. The release from social preoccupations behind closed doors results in an alcohol-induced claustrophobia and when an unexpected visit from Michael's straight college friend takes everyone by surprise unspoken personal revelations come boiling to the surface. With the sort of lively and rabid repartee of an Oscar Wilde play combined with the dark psychological stalking of Edward AlbeeMike Nichols WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? THE BOYS IN THE BAND is Friedkin's most accomplished and final European- influenced auteurist effort before he turned to genre and self-described commercial filmmaking.
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Boys in the Band [VHS]
A sensitive yet humorous adaptation of the stage play, this 1970 film directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is one of the first films to openly address gay issues in a matter-of-fact style that largely avoids stereotyping. Shot on one set and featuring a birthday party as the festive setting, a group of friends assemble to celebrate, reminisce, and discuss their lives and the travails of being gay, even as one friend insists he's straight. The night turns from a light celebration to a sometimes- vindictive ordeal of revelation and betrayal, as each man in turn must confess his true feelings. Performed by the original cast of the stage production, the film may feel dated to some, but it still manages to be truthful and entertaining as it explores a subject that to this day is not often addressed. --Robert Lane
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