MOVIES!
I have now watched more movies, huzzah!
Lesbians of Buenos Aires: Argentinian, 2004. This was a documentary centered on a few lesbians and their experiences in Buenos Aires how to function as a lesbian in a machismo culture. It was rather depressing, but slightly uplifting...sort of what you would expect from a foreign documentary about an oppressed and ignored group of people. I learned that Argentinians really like soccer, potatoes, drinking and riding the subway.
Therese and Isabelle: American? British? 1968. This and the next movie were really...um...well...basically a vehicle for 60's softcore porn, as far as I can tell. They were naughty! This one was way naughtier than most of the other lesbian movies I have seen so far. And this is not because it showed more graphic scenes or something, no! Because it had this voice over during a love scene that was like, pure erotic poetry. Good Lord!...But anyway....the movie is in black and white and centers on a woman named Therese coming back to her old girl's school and reminiscing on the good ol' days. Actually, like most lesbian, girl-school movies, the good ol' days are kind of depressing and torment filled. Yay! highschool! So, Therese and Isabelle get together and then break up. I am thinking these 60's movies about lesbians are more titillating cautionary tales to warn people against lesbianism or something like that...Cause it seems to be like, "whoops! I'm doing it with a girl now. Oh! This is fun, and for some reason emotionally horrifying for one half of the duo." Fun Fun Fun, Wham! Majorly depressing. good stuff. But that voice over...whew! That was some super-duper graphic prose. (The actresses look to be in their 30's. No amount of school girl uniform can hide the fact that they are nearing 40. hm).
The Alley Cats: American? British? 1965. I kind of want to just yank Netflix's description of the movie and slap it down here. So I shall. "Amid Europe's super wealthy jet set, lovely Leslie feels neglected by her cheating fiance, Logan. She gets even by pursuing a few dalliances of her own and, in the process, falls for a gorgeous lesbian socialite." Logan, by the way, is a total douchebag...in case you were wondering. Though I feel like this movie was a cautionary tale about not treating your woman right or she'll go off and do something crazy like sleep with a predatory blond, beehived lesbian...I think it should be more a cautionary tale about women who stay with douchey guys. Leslie is pretty and looks more the age of a school girl than the women in the last movie. She is innocent and junk and gets involved with all this stupid swinger stuff and then goes back to Logan after he bitchslaps her mouth in public...she literally crawls back to him. Disgusting! 60's soft core porn seems to center on facial expressions and not on bodies. I don't know if you have ever had to see modern soft core porn, but I suggest you do not. It is really funky, focusing on naked bodies just bouncing on each other like barbie dolls. Centering on faces is a lot more "pleasant" to watch than watching overly tan, fake bodies...just....ew.
Dark Habits: Spanish, 1985 Director is Pedro Almodovar. I am currently in the middle of watching this one. I am told, via Netflix, that there is some sort of lesbian storyline coming up where the mother superior tries to get her thing on with a new arrival to the convent...Currently, however, there is a tiger in the garden (literally) playing with the chickens. Mother Superior is shooting up heroin with people. Another nun is smuggling in smut pulp fiction. There is something about a suspected murder and so on. It reminds me of Sister Act gone very wrong. So far, there is a lot of smoking and nuns behaving badly. What's not to like?
Ha! Mother Superior and Yolanda (the new arrival who is a singer in a nightclub) just lip synced a love song at each other and Mother Superior just whipped out a koala bear on her desk, dug into it and pulled out some cocaine, chopped it up on her desk and snorted with Yolanda. In a koala bear? These nuns have names like, Sister Rat, Sister Damned, Sister Snake and so on. Who doesn't want to be at this nunnery? Sister Rat is reading smut in the chapel aloud to a couple other nuns that seem really happy about it.
I think the priest is gay. He keeps talking about how awesome Audrey Hepburn's clothes are and he is helping the nuns to sew things to sell at market. The priest also constantly smokes cigarettes. He was saying mass and doing the eucharist and had to set his cigarette down in order to eat the wafer and drink the wine, that's classy!
Oh lord! I really want to be watching this movie with a group of people. It is amusing me no end! This one nun just came in and found Sister Rat eating meat that she stole from the tiger in the garden that Sister Damned was playing bongos to in order to soothe the savage beast. So this nun admonishes Sister Rat about eating meat (Sister Rat has some meat juice, aka blood, dripping down her chin) and that she should suffer to get into heaven. Sister Rat says she'd rather suffer later. Nun goes berserk, breaks an empty wine bottle, takes off her shoes and walks around on the broken glass. Sister Rat is annoyed at her showing off how holy thou art and goes on eating meat. Another nun comes in and yells at Nun for making a mess on the floor and starts sweeping the glass up and yelling about blood all over the floor...awesome.
good times.
Lesbians of Buenos Aires: Argentinian, 2004. This was a documentary centered on a few lesbians and their experiences in Buenos Aires how to function as a lesbian in a machismo culture. It was rather depressing, but slightly uplifting...sort of what you would expect from a foreign documentary about an oppressed and ignored group of people. I learned that Argentinians really like soccer, potatoes, drinking and riding the subway.
Therese and Isabelle: American? British? 1968. This and the next movie were really...um...well...basically a vehicle for 60's softcore porn, as far as I can tell. They were naughty! This one was way naughtier than most of the other lesbian movies I have seen so far. And this is not because it showed more graphic scenes or something, no! Because it had this voice over during a love scene that was like, pure erotic poetry. Good Lord!...But anyway....the movie is in black and white and centers on a woman named Therese coming back to her old girl's school and reminiscing on the good ol' days. Actually, like most lesbian, girl-school movies, the good ol' days are kind of depressing and torment filled. Yay! highschool! So, Therese and Isabelle get together and then break up. I am thinking these 60's movies about lesbians are more titillating cautionary tales to warn people against lesbianism or something like that...Cause it seems to be like, "whoops! I'm doing it with a girl now. Oh! This is fun, and for some reason emotionally horrifying for one half of the duo." Fun Fun Fun, Wham! Majorly depressing. good stuff. But that voice over...whew! That was some super-duper graphic prose. (The actresses look to be in their 30's. No amount of school girl uniform can hide the fact that they are nearing 40. hm).
The Alley Cats: American? British? 1965. I kind of want to just yank Netflix's description of the movie and slap it down here. So I shall. "Amid Europe's super wealthy jet set, lovely Leslie feels neglected by her cheating fiance, Logan. She gets even by pursuing a few dalliances of her own and, in the process, falls for a gorgeous lesbian socialite." Logan, by the way, is a total douchebag...in case you were wondering. Though I feel like this movie was a cautionary tale about not treating your woman right or she'll go off and do something crazy like sleep with a predatory blond, beehived lesbian...I think it should be more a cautionary tale about women who stay with douchey guys. Leslie is pretty and looks more the age of a school girl than the women in the last movie. She is innocent and junk and gets involved with all this stupid swinger stuff and then goes back to Logan after he bitchslaps her mouth in public...she literally crawls back to him. Disgusting! 60's soft core porn seems to center on facial expressions and not on bodies. I don't know if you have ever had to see modern soft core porn, but I suggest you do not. It is really funky, focusing on naked bodies just bouncing on each other like barbie dolls. Centering on faces is a lot more "pleasant" to watch than watching overly tan, fake bodies...just....ew.
Dark Habits: Spanish, 1985 Director is Pedro Almodovar. I am currently in the middle of watching this one. I am told, via Netflix, that there is some sort of lesbian storyline coming up where the mother superior tries to get her thing on with a new arrival to the convent...Currently, however, there is a tiger in the garden (literally) playing with the chickens. Mother Superior is shooting up heroin with people. Another nun is smuggling in smut pulp fiction. There is something about a suspected murder and so on. It reminds me of Sister Act gone very wrong. So far, there is a lot of smoking and nuns behaving badly. What's not to like?
Ha! Mother Superior and Yolanda (the new arrival who is a singer in a nightclub) just lip synced a love song at each other and Mother Superior just whipped out a koala bear on her desk, dug into it and pulled out some cocaine, chopped it up on her desk and snorted with Yolanda. In a koala bear? These nuns have names like, Sister Rat, Sister Damned, Sister Snake and so on. Who doesn't want to be at this nunnery? Sister Rat is reading smut in the chapel aloud to a couple other nuns that seem really happy about it.
I think the priest is gay. He keeps talking about how awesome Audrey Hepburn's clothes are and he is helping the nuns to sew things to sell at market. The priest also constantly smokes cigarettes. He was saying mass and doing the eucharist and had to set his cigarette down in order to eat the wafer and drink the wine, that's classy!
Oh lord! I really want to be watching this movie with a group of people. It is amusing me no end! This one nun just came in and found Sister Rat eating meat that she stole from the tiger in the garden that Sister Damned was playing bongos to in order to soothe the savage beast. So this nun admonishes Sister Rat about eating meat (Sister Rat has some meat juice, aka blood, dripping down her chin) and that she should suffer to get into heaven. Sister Rat says she'd rather suffer later. Nun goes berserk, breaks an empty wine bottle, takes off her shoes and walks around on the broken glass. Sister Rat is annoyed at her showing off how holy thou art and goes on eating meat. Another nun comes in and yells at Nun for making a mess on the floor and starts sweeping the glass up and yelling about blood all over the floor...awesome.
good times.