We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for Brokeback Mountain has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne solely out of our sense of obligation to stay on the cutting edge of anything related to buggery. (And even that motivation has waned, now that the movie's being advertised as a heterosexual love story.) Honestly, it's only barely opened and already jokes about its title are more passé than pretending that "Target" is pronounced like it's French. Le sigh.
But who'd have guessed that BM isn't the first big-ticket homocowboy film to screen in SF? Lonesome Cowboys was a semi-comprehensible Warhol-wank that appeared about 40 years ago at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In keeping with the SFIFF's enduring theme of snooty snoozefests, LC was, as far as we can make out, a meandering, unsynchronized montage of western icons and gentialia that immediately attracted the attention of the naughty monkeys at the FBI. You can read the bureau's hilariously clinical review on The Smoking Gun, which includes the line, "All of the males in the cast displayed homsexual tendencies and conducted themselves toward one another in an effeminate manner." Wearing chaps has that effect on us, too.
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I'm with you, Matty. That said, I heard it's actually a *good* movie.
Good God, I wish people would stop saying "Tar-zhay."
I hear it's a good movie, too.
...I hate good movies!
I've also read so much about "Brokeback Mountain" that I'm already sick of it so no hideous Embarcadero experience for me. Looks like it's going to be a wait-for-the-DVD film.
"Lonesome Cowboys" I actually saw, stoned, decades ago and all I remember was the longest urination scene in the history of cinema.
You know, if I didn't know that there were actual gays at SFist, you'd actually seem pretty anti-gay. Posts about gayitude on this site always use mocking vocab ("buggery"?!) and your articles seem to end up in these kind of "i'm so over the gays, they were hot in the '90s" kind of places. Come to think of it, I'm _not_ sure there are actual gays (should I say "Homophiles" or "Faggotrons" or something more SFisty?) at this little web-blog, so maybe you really are anti-gay. Irony: so confusing!
i must say, in a rare moment of sincerity, that "faggotrons" is the awesomest thing i've ever heard. that's totally how i'm self-identifying from now on.
rest assured that while we may look askance at the wearing of chaps, there's nothing mocking about our use of the term "buggery" -- we mean it with nothing but the utmost respect, deference, and no small amount of hunger. and just for the record, we hope never to be over the gays; we prefer to remain under them.