SECRET BEDROOM DISCOVERED | Rocco and his brothers by Markus Lanz
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Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.
SECRET BEDROOM DISCOVERED | Rocco and his brothers by Markus Lanz
It’s about this dude Henry who’s an artist living in New York,
and he has to go back to his hometown in Montana to take care of his grandfather who just recently had a stroke and is wheelchair-bound.
Things are all fine and dandy until Henry finds out that his old best friend from high school, as well as object of his unrequited affections that he’s never really been able to let go of is also back in town. His name is Dean. He’s there with his two sons to recoup from a recent divorce from his wife.
Henry is extremely frazzled by seeing his long-time crush after so many years, but they spend a lot of time together over the passing weeks and seem to fall into their old friendship very easily. Perhaps a little too easily….??? hmmm???
And with everything with Dean happening, Henry can’t be blamed that he’s entirely oblivious to Pike, the man who runs the local general goods store.
It’s obvious to us (and the whole damn town) that Pike’s been head over heels for Henry since high school, but is painfully shy. He can barely talk to Henry at all and it’s the cuTEST GODDAMN THING oh lord help me from this movie.
Throughout the movie, Pike can’t seem to help himself from wanting nothing more than to make Henry happy from afar. He’s supposed to be delivering food cooked by one of the older ladies in town to Henry and his grandfather’s house to eat every night, but Pike cooks his own, exceptionally better meals, and delivers those instead and tells no one.
Now, Henry does notice Pike, and something about him catches his attention. Even if he doesn’t understand why yet. He tries to invite him to stay for dinner almost every night in an attempt to get him to open up, but Pike only becomes more closed off when he notices what’s going on between Henry and Dean.
I’ll stop there, as I don’t want to give the whole thing away, but I can’t leave this without talking about the town’s residents in this movie. This place is 100% one of those little towns where everyone knows each other as well as their business, you have nosy little old ladies, dudes who do nothing all day but sit on the porch of the corner store and smoke a pipe, and they all go to church on Sundays.
AND YET, not only is this movie void of any homophobia from any character, basically the whole freaking town is all up in this whole love triangle. They support Pike so much that there’s even scenes where they all play matchmaker with him and Henry. They root for them in the goofiest, most loveable way.
SO BASICALLY, this is a silly romantic comedy, except gay. It’s all super lighthearted comedy with tiny bits of drama thrown in. No one dies!!!! No one is killed or commits suicide and has a 100% happy ending!!! The three main guys are just normal guys!!! There’s not a stereotype to be found here!! anD ONE OF THEM IS NATIVE AMERICAN. No seriously guys it hurts me that not everybody knows about this movie. I discovered it when I was in middle school in our video store’s tiny little LGBTQ section, and must have rented it 20 times throughout the years before I finally bought it. I know this movie almost frame by frame I’ve watched it so many times because it’s just so disgustingly cute and always makes me happy. NOW, this movie isn’t perfect. It’s got some clunky acting, weird.. I guess artsy moments that don’t make sense, and crosses into the line of cheesy quite a few times, BUT, that’s really not important. This is treated exactly as if it were a het romantic comedy. Their being gay has nothing to do with the overall story, and is never brought up save for a small plotline where Henry is guilty with himself for never coming out to his grandfather. But overall, more LGBTQ movies need to be like this, it’s just way too rare.
GO WATCH IT YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID. Sadly, the only way I know to get ahold of it is to just buy the DVD. But it’s fairly cheap on Amazon! And even cheaper if you buy it used on there, but either way I promise it’s worth it to own. Like I said, I think I kept our video store in business from my renting it so many times.
Oh, and I hope you enjoy country music to some extent because this has the countriest soundtrack of all time.
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One February morning the Berlin tabloids announced a strange incident……
SECRET BEDROOM DISCOVERED | Rocco and his brothers by Markus Lanz
Henrietta’s fresh out of the spa drunk and tan.
PEN Cavafy Tribute (2013) by Dimitris Papaioannou
PEN Cavafy Tribute (2013) by Dimitris Papaioannou
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PEN American Center presents
A TRIBUTE TO C.P. CAVAFY18 November 2013 at the Town Hall, New York
With André Aciman, Michael Cunningham, Mark Doty, Olympia Dukakis, Craig Dykers (of Snøhetta), Edmund Keeley, Daniel Mendelsohn, Orhan Pamuk, Dimitris Papaioannou and Kathleen Turner
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00:00:00 / ITHAKA / recorded by Sir Sean Connery / accompanied by Vangelis
00:00:50 / CAVAFY BEFORE HE WAS CAVAFY / by Michael Cunningham
00:05:57 / IMPOSSIBLE THINGS / an excerpt from the 2nd movement of the work by Nico Muhly
00:08:10 / LONGINGS / read by Harry Kremmydas / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:08:41 / A POET TRANSFORMED / by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:10:26 / SWEET VOICES / read by Kathleen Turner / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:14:55 / VOICES / read by Olympia Dukakis / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:16:15 / POET ON THE PERIPHERY / by Orhan Pamuk / translated by Ekin Oklap
00:24:00 / THE CITY / read by Olympia Dukakis / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:25:45 / ALEXANDRIA IRREALIS / by André Aciman
00:34:33 / HUMAN CHAIN / by Craig Dykers
00:47:40 / LOVELY WHITE FLOWERS / read by Kathleen Turner / translated by Edmund Keeley & Phillip Sherrard
00:50:05 / BLOOD OF LOVE / by Mark Doty
00:57:15 / THE GOD ABANDONS ANTONY / read by Olympia Dukakis / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
00:59:25 / RENDERING THE POET’S VISION / by Edmund Keeley
01:05:55 / THE MIRROR IN THE ENTRANCE / read by Kathleen Turner / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
01:07:24 / PRAYER / extract from videos by Dimitris Papaioannou for 13 Cavafy poems set to music by Lena Platonos
01:10:00 / DAYS OF 1908 / read by Olympia Dukakis, Harry Kremmydas & Kathleen Turner / translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
01:13:00 / PRIMAL MATTER / performance of the finale from the work by Dimitris Papaioannou / with Michael Theophanous—
Concept: Daniel Mendelsohn & László Jakab Orsos
Producer: László Jakab Orsos
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Production Design: Andrew Lazarow
Lighting Design: Thomas Dunn
Event Production: Elizabeth Weinstein
Literary Scholar: Sarah MontagueSpecial thanks to Suzanne Nossel, PEN American Center Executive Director.
This event was made possible through the generous sponsorship of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in conjunction with the Onassis Foundation (USA) and PEN American Center.
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PRIMAL MATTER (2012) by Dimitris Papaioannou / the entire work in seventeen minutes by Dimitris Papaioannou
PRIMAL MATTER (2012) by Dimitris Papaioannou / the entire work in seventeen minutes by Dimitris Papaioannou
PRIMAL MATTER (2012) by Dimitris Papaioannou / the entire work in seventeen minutes from Dimitris Papaioannou on Vimeo.
conceived, visualized + directed by
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOUperformed by
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU + MICHALIS THEOPHANOUSfilmed by
STEFANOS SITARASedited by
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOUsound design
KOSTAS MICHOPOULOSassistant director + creative producer
TINA PAPANIKOLOAOUrehearsal director
PAVLINA ANDRIOPOULOU
stage manager
DINOS NIKOLAOUTechnical Director
YOROGOS BAMPANARASLighting Technician
MILTOS ATHANASIOUproduced by the
ATHENS FESTIVAL (2012) + 2WORKS (2013)with the support of
EMPAC (New York)The music theme of the performance is a “taxim” (improvisation) in bouzouki by Yiannis Papaioannou
documented during the live performances at the Athens Festival in 2013