![]() Rappaport is entitled to his opinions, but devoid of interviews with studio executives, actors, directors, screenwriters and dispassionate experts, ''The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender,'' which opens today at the Quad, forfeits any claim to seriousness. But at times, listening to the narration is like being in the company of adolescents who can find sexual innuendo anywhere. And when these moments are presented out of context, the assertion gains force. Butler, the old films are rich with relationships, dialogue, glances and other bits of action susceptible to interpretation as being freighted with homosexuality. Rappaport's film makes the unsurprising point that at a time when American society at large preferred that homosexuality remain hidden, so did its films. With a narration by Dan Butler, who is described in the publicity materials as an outspokenly gay actor and who plays the womanizer on the hit sitcom ''Frasier,'' Mr. Written, directed and edited by Mark Rappaport, ''The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender'' is another of the so-called cinematic essays by the filmmaker, whose previous works include ''Rock Hudson's Home Movies'' (1992) and ''From the Journals of Jean Seberg'' (1995). Butler acts as tour guide as he uncovers, despite efforts to launder American cinema of even the faintest traces of gay influences, Hollywood’s squeamish fascination with gay eroticism and camp.Images and opinions abound in ''The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender,'' but genuine insight and reportorial curiosity are in short supply in this film about Hollywood's treatment of homosexuality during its golden age, from the 1930's to the 60's. ![]() The film takes viewers on a tour through the hidden and not so hidden gay undercurrents of Hollywood’s Golden Years. The Silver Screen: Color Me LavenderĪctor Dan Butler hosts this documentary survey of homosexuality as depicted in movies from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Notably, the film features a promotional song composed by multiple-Oscar winning composer A. It stars Rahman, Nishan, Anoop Menon, and Thalaivasal Vijay in the lead roles. It is a remake of Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau’s 2006 South Korean film Daisy. This is a Malayalam film written by Anoop Menon and directed by Altas T. Lavenderįor something a little more exotic, why not try Lavender. The film is named Lavender Hill, a street in Battersea where the pair live, which was so titled due to the lavender fields that existed there in Victorian times. However, things go awry when the gold statues become mixed in with a group of ordinary statues, leading to a frantic chase as Henry and Alfred try to recover the gold without their crime being detected. The pair realise that if Alfred melts the stolen gold into miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower, it could be smuggled safely to France and sold on. However, Henry harbours dreams of becoming rich and hatches a plan to steal the gold when he makes the acquaintance of the artist, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway). Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. The Widdington sisters nurse him back to health, but have no idea the disruption that this talented young man will cause to both them and the community they live in. A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. Their peaceful lives are upended when they discover a handsome stranger on the beach below their house. Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a tight-knit fishing village in 1936, Ladies in Lavender stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith playing the leading roles of sisters Ursula (Dench) and Janet Widdington (Smith). Ladies in Lavender is a 2004 British drama film written and directed by Charles Dance, who based his screenplay on a short story by William J. We’re thinking a stack of lavender shortbread, a drop of lavender syrup in a glass of fizz, a spot of our wonderful lavender essential oil bubbling away in an oil burner and a lavender movie on the telly. As we know, we can smell the wonderful aroma of lavender, look at it’s gorgeous foliage and flowers and even listen to songs about lavender (for more information have a look at our Lavender’s Blue article), but what about watching lavender? Well here’s our list of lavender movies, so that you can take your pick of what to curl up with for a truly lovely lavender evening.
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