Water Bearer Films
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John Garfield
Mark Rappaport completed his concise portrait of the legendary John Garfield in 2002, comprised (like much of his filmed essays) from existing film footage of the actor. Exceptionally engaging, Rappaport's extraordinary short contains more insightful observations of its subject than many...Watch Movie
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The Place Between Our Bodies
The hedonistic yet spiritually-questing spirit of San Francisco life at the height of the "Gay Liberation" movement is captured in Michael Wallin's poetical, highly personal film. As we watch city denizens cruise each other in the free-for-all atmosphere of a mid-1970s erotic...Watch Movie
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Greek Pete
GREEK PETE gives us a glimpse into the world of Pete, a very popular escort voted "Best Escort" at the "World Escort Awards" in Los Angeles in 2008. We meet Pete prior to his fame when he arrives in London with the hope of increasing his business as an escort. All he wants is a nice flat in...Watch Movie
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
“It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson’s Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport’s feature film, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the...Watch Movie
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Saturday Night at the Baths
Desperate for a job, Michael finds himself as the piano player at the Continental baths. Although he complains to his girlfriend about the advances of the club manager, Scotti, Michael is slowly discovering something new about himself. A strange and erotically charged...Watch Movie
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The Road to Love
This romantic drama follows a young and apparently straight French-Algerian student, Karim, on a sociological quest to find gay Muslims. Through his investigations, the likable and handsome Karim meets a number of gay Arabs, from self focused Youssef to sexually aggressive...Watch Movie
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David Searching
This uncharacteristically sweet independent film from writer/director Leslie Smith stars Anthony Rapp and Camryn Manheim as a pair of roommates. David is a young, gay, aspiring documentary filmmaker who takes his first tentative steps towards his adult life. Gwen, ending a mysterious marriage, is...Watch Movie
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Sebastian
Sebastian is a typical teenager. He hangs out with this friends, goes to the movies, buys hip clothes and attends school. Typical, that is, until a chance stolen kiss changes everything. Sebastian is just figuring out what almost everyone else around him already knows, he is gay. The kiss is...Watch Movie
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
From the ground-breaking director of ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES, Mark Rappaport takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the hidden and not-so-hidden undercurrents of Hollywood's Golden Years. Dan Butler acts as tour guide as he uncovers (despite efforts to launder...Watch Movie
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F. est un salaud
Clean-cut 16-year-old Beni is a Zurich high school student just itching for an alternative life. That opportunity comes when he goes to a rock concert where he falls madly in love with FпїЅgi, the dangerously attractive lead singer of the Minks. With looks suggesting a...Watch Movie
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A Place in the Sun
Model-handsome Athenian Ilias (Stavros Zalmas) has "never been in love… at least not for more than a couple of weeks." But after a spell abroad, he returns home to discover his city "flooded with foreigners" in the wake of Balkan conflicts and the Iron Curtain's collapse....Watch Movie
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Blue Streak
An adroit expansion on the notion of a "blue" movie, Mark Rappaport's early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed to human sexuality, all layered over footage of a room filled with naked women and men. At the...Watch Movie
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS, a wildly comic fable, stars the beloved stone faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman, and Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a...Watch Movie
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The Consequence
Martin has been sent to jail. While there he meets fifteen-year-old Thomas, the son of one of the prison staff. Thomas immediately develops a deep crush on Martin. The two men find (and share) their mutual passion behind the locked door of Martin's cell. Once released, the two move in together...Watch Movie
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A Very Natural Thing
An important film in the history of American gay filmmaking, A VERY NATURAL THING is considered the first feature film on the gay experience made by an out-of-the-closet gay man to receive commercial distribution. The simple but insightful story involves a 26-year-old gay man,...Watch Movie
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We Were One Man
Guy is trying to live a simple life during World War II. He resides in a small farmhouse outside a sleepy village in France. He has almost no friends. One day he stumbles across Rolf, an injured German soldier. Guy brings Rolf home and nurses him back to health. While convalescing, a relationship...Watch Movie
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Vacationland
This unflinching work from New York City based filmmaker Todd Verow is a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical story of growing up gay in picturesque Maine. Gay high-school senior Joe is not quite out to his family and has for years been in love with his best friend Andrew. Unhappy at home, Joe...Watch Movie
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Decodings
Michael Wallin's most widely-acclaimed film was also his only foray into found-footage assembly. Set to the mournful strains of Dmitri Shostakovich with a ruminative text by San Francisco physician/author Michael Blumlein (as read by William Graves), DECODINGS' collected archival images seem to...Watch Movie
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Accattone
The first of Pier Paolo Pasolini's highly acclaimed films and the winner of numerous film festival prizes, ACCATTONE uses a talented cast to present a vivid picture of the Roman slums. Based on one of the filmmaker/poet's novels, this story of a pimp, his friends, his enemies and his girls is...Watch Movie
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Friends Forever
Kristian is a shy 16-year-old starting at a new school. Like all boys his age he is uncertain of his new environment. He is drawn to Henrick an androgynous, charismatic and independent student, a warm friendship slowly develops. On the other side of the school's spectrum is Patrick, a bully and...Watch Movie
