Tonight we present 4

Safe Sex

by Chuck Griffith

Chuck Griffith’s short has a very clever screenlay and a story to tell. The dialogue keeps up to the gay bar reality, despite having sop much free space in that bar. Usually it’s too hard to move around, and if you are standing next to the door people just push through you and not standing t say hello. The characters are well built, kept into reality, recognizable but not stereotyped. The main idea of Safe Sex original and what was very intresting is that the director loves so much to bring together in his following films John Paul Pitoc(not as hot as people present him)

and Christian Campbell (cute and activist), the couple that we met in Trick, he used them once in his film Thank You Goodnight and in his next project (also gay interest) Shifting The Canvas

A plus in the movie the following song. I wished so much that gay clubs in Greece showed more apreciation to songs like Geri Halliwell’s Look At Me -it should have been a gay anthem…

 

A New Week: Exploring queer cinema (TRICK) and a Eurovision memory

This week I was a bit late but really things were a bit tough.

For this week I just remembered a movie from 1999. It is Jim Fall’s Trick with Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc and Tori Spelling in her best screen apearance ever. The best thing about the movie is the main problem the two leads have. They cannot find a place to make out despite living in the big city. And if this looks like a strange thing, for greek gays it is just another day, since we just keep on living with our parents, or hiding for a long time. So in a way I can tottaly get into the feeling of the two lovers who cannot find a place to have sex. Apart from that the movie though no masterpiece keeps its rythme and its clever lines till the end, despite being predictable, and despite John Paul Pitoc not being my type of guy. Without being hot or too sexual, Trick has a special charm, espceially if you were this young gay back then, wondering if you ll ever find a nice guy, and if you ll have a aomewhere to take advantage of him. Tori Spelling really surprised me and Christian Campbell (Neve Campbell’s brother) really has it. For a relaxing night with or without someone by your side.

And because a trailer wasn’t easy to find and scenes it was a pitty to be revealed here is a small clip with Paul Oskar’s And I danced My life Away on the soundtrack.

Do you remember Paul Oscar?

the openly gay guy representing Iceland in 1997