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New on DVD: Bromance, TV divas, hoofers and revolutionaries
The gay-adjacent shenanigans of I Love You, Man debut on DVD this week, along with some of your favorite tart-tongued TV characters, Hollywood's current crop of musical stars and a new film from two of France's leading queer filmmakers. Read on for more!
While I Love You, Man doesn't quite stack up against the work that stars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel have done within the Judd Apatow stable, it's a charming and harmless enough comedy about a groom-to-be (Rudd) who comes to the realization that he doesn't have any guy friends and the slacker (Segel) who teaches him how to be a dude. SNL's Andy Samberg steals every scene that isn't nailed down as Rudd's gay brother, who exclusively hits on straight guys.
It's a good week for small-screen saucepots: In addition to the long-awaited drawly quippiness of Designing Women: Season Two, fans of witty Britcoms can avail themselves to Are You Being Served? The Complete Collection and the latest from Ab Fab maven Jennifer Saunders, The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
There's been something of a renaissance in big-screen musicals in recent decades, which hasn't gone unnoticed by the DVD Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This ongoing series concludes with an up-to-the-minute look at movies like Dreamgirls and Moulin Rouge! and TV projects like High School Musical which are keeping the genre alive and kicking for a new generation.
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, the directors behind such recent queer French faves as Jeanne and the Perfect Guy, The Adventures of Felix, My Life on Ice and Côte d'Azur return with Born in '68, a look at two generations in a family of radicals, from communal hippies to ACT UP agitators. That's the kind of political subject matter that would terrify many American filmmakers, but Ducastel and Martineau no doubt address the material with their trademark light touch. Submitted by on Wed, 2009-08-12 12:25. |
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Designing Women!
While i prefer Seasons 3 and 4, Season 2 does include the milestone episode Killing all the Right People, with Tony Goldwyn as a customer dying of AIDS. I'm wondering if there's any commentary on any of the episodes?
"Les Garcons" (as Ducastel and Martineau) are known
in France) are truly great fillmakers.
Ma Vraie Vie a Rouen ( My Life on Ice) is my favorite film about of first love and first heartbreak. Jeanne and the Perfect Guy is a musical masterpiece about AIDS. And Adventures of Felix is a joyous gay road trip -- with a lot to say about racism in france.
I'm a terrible person
Boy, does it look like they liberally applied the airbrush to Dixie Carter's picture.
She didn't look that young when the show was running.
It doesn't even LOOK like her!
It's an awful picture really. Carter made 47 look fabulous-why tamper with that, as if diehard fans would WANT their Julia airbrushed beyond recognition?
Sorry Snicks...I just
I Love You, Man!
Certainly a DVD I WON'T buy! I saw it a couple of weeks ago on the plane and though it was funny at times it was mainly horrible and silly.
I'm pained to say that, because I LOVE Paul Rudd! I love his comedies, but I'd like a much more serious role for a change.
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Notice how they changed the cover for "I Love You, Man"?
Originally, it was just Rudd and Segal; now they've added Rashida Jones as well. Was the original TOO "bromantic?"
Jude, no offense, but I really enjoyed "ILYM." Big, big laughs, some gay-friendly humor, and some very wise and subversive threads about straight guys, friendship, love, etc. Infinitely better than the vile, overrated "The Hangover," which was openly homophobic. (I get so depressed every time someone says, "Oh, 'The Hangover' is the funniest movie EVER!" Um, maybe if you're not gay, a woman, or a person of color.)
Which "Designing Woman" episode was it where Delta Burke comes into Sugarbaker's breathing fire and huffs, "Why didn't you tell me you'd scheduled me for lunch with HO-mosexuals?!?!" Apparently, she was completely thrown off balance because all of her charm and flirtatiousness was for naught. I won't give away the great follow-up gag this joke then has later in the episode. Just can't remember which ep/season it was.
I don't love you, man!
Some bits were just too odd to actually like the entire film. I don't think I'll watch it again (except maybe for the kiss Rudd shares with Lennon! Mmmh!). Even though I LOVE Paul Rudd, but I think I said that already..
On the same flight, I saw 17 Again (saw it for the first time) and I liked it against all expectations.. Go figure!
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The red eye to oblivion
I not only had the exact same reaction to these films as jUde, I also saw them on a plane! I had some problems with the Tom Lennon character in "17 Again," but, ultimately, found it much more rewarding than "I Love You Man." Come to think of it, Lennon was a problem in both films. I don't know what the message was in ILYM, but in "17" it was definitely that Zac Efron, against all odds, can act!
"The mountain has wings."