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I Want Your Love ( Short film )
I WANT YOUR LOVE
I WANT YOUR LOVE
A Film by Travis Matthews
Cast: Jesse Metzger, Brenden Gregory
What happens when two friends give in to their urges? “I Want Your Love“, a new new short film by indie director Travis Matthews illustrates very explicitely what it could feel like to fuck a good friend after having a few glasses of wine together. Like the movies Mathews shot for his documentary series “In Their Room” the movie is very tenderly shot, and like other contemporary queer indie movies it combines both narrative and pornographic elements in a way that blurs the borders between a “feature film” and a “porn film”. The whole thing is also part of a bigger film project with the same title Matthews is working on at the moment.
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Genre: Romance, Erotic
Language: English
Location: USA
End Of Love
Stuck in a Christian ‘rehabilitation’ camp, boyishly cute Ming a 22 year old Hongkong party boy recalls his double life, a whirlwind of sex and drugs as a rent boy, and a sedate, romantic life with the older and more conservative Yen. Secrets and lies haunt their relationship, as Ming’s mother confronts her son’s sexuality in a most extreme fashion and Yen tries to get Ming to give up hustling
As the story unfolds Ming falls for Keung, a handsome, former drug addict who has been assigned as his sponsor.
Movie Review
Simon Chung directs a 97-minute Boys’ Love film entitled the End of Love. When need comes in the middle of love, how can two perfectly romantic and caring men turn their backs from one another? The one to blame is Ming – a very handsome man whose mother just passed away since she accidentally finds out the real life of her notable son. She could not bear her son’s sexual preference and leaps out the window to face her death.
Looking back on his nasty past as a man hustler, Ming traces his steps together with his memory back to those times when he seeks a cheap thrill with drugs and very explicit relationships with men he only meets on the streets. Could this be the reason why Yen’s feelings for Ming died away? Yen happens to be the lover of Ming who is very much on the conservative side. He shows Ming how deserving he is to show him the love he has always dreamt of.
Little did Yen know that Ming has a landlord named Cyrus who sidelines as a rent boy. This is the source of extra income that Ming thinks he could make something big with. He then clings to the new found refuge and begins attracting and hunting prospects down for an easy buck. Ming and Cyrus are raking in good money with their stint and they even compare notes on how to throw in the perfect bait.
Without the knowledge of Yen, Ming makes real good income from his so-called secret association with the new landlord of the place he is renting. Every night they seem to walk the streets clad in mystery as they literally hunt wandering gay clients who are looking for a moment of ecstasy in their arms.
A sudden change of feelings brings Yen to have questions about Ming’s mysterious job so he follows him around and to his surprise, finds out the real set-up between Cyrus and his lover. Without even thinking, Yen goes to the police and tips his lover’s alleged behavior. On the eve of the bust, Yen could not control his feelings since the man he thought would go beyond bars is not Cyrus but instead it turns out to be Ming.
While serving his sentence, Ming meets another inmate named Keung who makes him endure his times inside the jail. When he finally comes out, Ming decides that there is indeed love at the end of a storm. He vows to himself that even though he is all emotionally battered when Yen tipped him off, Keung is now his salvation. Ming drops by Keung’s place for a visit and gets a shock of his life – Keung is not living alone. He is with someone else too. The End of Love seems to be flowing through Ming veins. So he checks in a Christian Rehabilitation Clinic and goes through several therapies.
Is there a ray of light even though Ming sees the End of Love go pass his very eyes?
Night Coridor
Night Corridor Yao ye hui lang
Director, Writer: Chi Chiu Lee
| Companies: | Pure F. Art Syndicate Golden Gate Pro. |
Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese, English
Subtitle: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Runtime: 73 min
| Cast: | Daniel Wu, David Smith Kara Hui, Eddy Ko Anthony Fernandez Fung Kuk, Allan Wu Coco Chiang |
Summary : An artist investigates the uncanny death of his twin brother who was gnawed and clawed to pieces by wild monkeys. He ends up grappling with the beast within, after being gobbled alive by a ravenous nympho and getting sucked into in a series of grisly murders. Out of his closet tumble skeletons of repressed homosexuality, pedophilic abuse, Oedipal complex and primal cruelty.
But eerier stuff awaits him in a colonial library guarded by a night porter who may be the Devil Incarnate. A danse macabre choreographed with European flair and painterly texture, transposed from the Satanic world of Polansky and Goya to a post-97 Hong Kong of paranoia, animal appetite, and – monkey business. While majority of the show is centered on morbid horror. The scene in which Daniel Wu holds Allan Wu at gun point and forces him to perform oral sex maybe enough to please others.
Year: 2003
Director: Julian Lee Chi-Chiu
Writer: Julian Lee Chi-Chiu (from his own novel)
Producer: Daniel Wu, Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
Cast: Daniel Wu, Kara Hui Ying-Hung, Guk Fung, Eddy Ko Hung, Coco Chiang Yi, Allan Wu
Review :
Now firmly established as a popular figure in both the commercial and art-house sectors of Hong Kong cinema, hot young actor Daniel Wu (BISHONEN, ENTER THE PHOENIX) co-produced this eerie supernatural drama with Stanley Kwan – director of ROUGE (1988) and LAN YU (2001) – which Wu has described in interviews as: “A dark, non-typical Hong Kong story, with a more European feel to it than most”.
Based on a novel by writer-director Julian Lee, Wu plays Sam, a photographer pursuing a successful career in London, far away from the ghosts of his childhood in HK, where he suffered years of sexual abuse at the hands of a ‘benign’ family priest (Eddy Ko). However, he’s forced to return home when his alcoholic mother (Kara Hui) informs him that his twin brother Ah-hung has died following a horrific incident in which he was torn apart by monkeys (talk about creepy!). Beset by grief and confusion, Sam seeks answers from the ageing night porter (Guk Fung) of a local library which his brother used to attend, where he’s introduced to Ah-hung’s strange girlfriend (mainland model Coco Chiang) whose devotion to Sam isn’t as innocent as it first appears. But Sam’s return to HK has also rekindled his affections for a childhood friend (Allan Wu), whom Ko accuses of being partly responsible for Ah-hung’s death. The mystery continues to deepen…
Filmed in twelve days on a limited budget and photographed with noir-ish intensity by debut cinematographers Wong Chi-ming and Charlie Lam, this multilayered shocker recalls the escalating paranoia suffered by Mia Farrow in ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968), though the Gothic tone and slow-burning tempo of Lee’s film owes as much to similarly-styled Asian entries like RING (1998) and JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2003). Lee maintains a cohesive narrative structure, despite his fractured editing style and non-linear approach to the material, whilst Wu anchors proceedings with his skillful portrait of a sensitive artist cast adrift in a threatening landscape.
Many of the film’s themes and images are linked explicitly to the famous painting ‘The Nightmare’ by 18th-19th century artist Henry Fuseli (that’s the one in which a horned demon is sitting astride a sleeping/swooning woman draped across a bed), an image whose relevance only becomes clearer as the movie draws to its enigmatic conclusion, and while the stark location photography evokes an appropriate measure of creeping dread, Lee further unnerves his audience by introducing odd, disconcerting noises into an otherwise benign soundtrack, while half-seen images flicker briefly at the edges of the frame.
Though it plays like a character study, the film is intensely cinematic in the usual HK manner, and while the ending is a little abrupt and confusing, events become clearer on subsequent viewings. Like BLOW-UP (1966), this is a movie which refuses to indulge the viewer’s expectations…
Daniel Wu is in every scene, and he’s hypnotic and beautiful and deeply tragic, all at the same time; tormented by the shadows of an unhappy childhood, and consumed by the darker shadows of an impending catastrophe, he tempers the anguish of his brother’s death with the fortitude of a natural survivor. Chiang essays a character not unlike the nightmarish Sadako in the Japanese “Ring” series, an innocent-looking pawn of satanic forces, while Guk’s kindly night porter turns out to be harboring more than a few guilty secrets of his own (my lips are sealed).
Slow-going, but bewitching and dreamlike in the best possible way, the movie was given a Category III (adults only) rating by HK censors for some frank sexual material, including an extraordinary scene in which Sam sprawls beneath his bedclothes, masturbating langurously over a recent photograph of the young man he once loved and lost (now a hunky radio DJ). Few actors of Wu’s standing have ever been so daring in HK cinema.
Director’s Comments
NIGHT CORRIDOR , a Hong Kong Arts Development Council sponsored feature film project, is a psychological thriller cum story of unrequited love with post-colonial Hong Kong as its backdrop.
Adapted from Julian Lee’s novel of the same title, inspired by a gothic painting by Fuseli called ‘Nightmare’, NIGHT CORRIDOR is about law and desire – our darkest, deepest human yearning, like the evil spirit embodied by the witches in Goya’s painting. In the film, a colonial library in Hong Kong is represented as a killing ground for the devil.
Through the protagonist’s ( an émigré artist returning to Hong Kong from London, U.K.) investigations into his twin brother’s murder by wild monkeys, he uncovers a pile of skeletons in his cupboard — Oedipus complex, repressed homosexuality, pedophilic abuse, perverted lust, bestiality. His final downfall into Satan’s abysmal trap, resembles unfolding of the relationship between Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro in ANGEL HEART.
The film echoes the atmospheric style of Roman Polanski’s THE TENANT and REPULSION with supernatural elements reminiscent of X FILES and the dark, warped universe of David Lynch掇 BLUE VELVET. The film is largely composed of night shots and interiors, with a mise en scene that evokes the rich textures and lighting of Gothic paintings s well as Dutch Masters.
— JULIAN LEE
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