Straight guys are jerks. Gay guys are jerks. Straight women are jerks. That leaves lesbians, and they're up in their ivory tower somewhere laughing their heads off at the rest of us.

steve buscemi hits himself in the head with a dildo and says he wishes he was a lesbian what more could you want from a film

if i watch a gay movie and i don't hear bronski beat in the first half hour, i turn it off. i've seen the first 30 min of brokeback mountain ten times.

wow i’m fucking sad and it’s all steve buscemi’s fault

I'm not quite sure why, but queer films from New York always seem the most like time capsules -- the fashions, scenes, and music always changing, but the relationship problems always staying the same. This is no different, at times almost feeling like a Very Natural Thing or early Jack Deveau film updated for the Reagan years. AIDS hangs so heavily over this, but what's striking is just how invisible it seems, avoiding the heavy politics of Buddies and the sanitized melodrama of An Early Frost in favor of something that feels a little more lived in; more temporary; more personal. Kind of a wonder, especially the three central performances and Jacek Laskus's surprisingly fluid photography. (Not to mention the no fewer than three Bronski Beat tracks on the soundtrack)

i know making pithy one-line reviews is the Cool Thing To Do on letterboxd dot gov but allow me to be sincere for a moment and say: there is something so simultaneously lovely and powerful watching a movie that has nothing to do with straight people, that doesn't try to be palatable or universal. there's also something to be said for the delightful normalcy of an already established gay relationship being featured so prominently in a film. 

the AIDS epidemic truly took so many brilliant artistic minds from the world and i mourn all the incredible gay art that they could have created had they lived.

gayer than brokeback mountain

"Jesus, next thing you're gonna tell me you're a fucking republican"

hey um this is the most underrated cinematic masterpiece on this whole goddamn website

Maravillosa! El amor, la soledad, la enfermedad, la vida, la muerte y la nostalgia coinciden en una cinta episódica que brilla por su carisma, sencillez y honestidad. Cuanta sensibilidad para retratar una era que definió a la comunidad con tanta empatía y sencillez. I’m a sucker for young Buscemi ❣️🤤 HERMOSA! :’)

I've never craved a bronski beat party more

wow wow, I’m not crying you are

just a few of the lines that i was entirely unprepared for-

“you are a discredit to the homo race”
“it’s the post Kennedy assassination generation”
“i like the chase, im a wolf in twinky clothing”
“jesus, next thing you’re gonna tell me is you’re a fucking republican”
“i mean your dick knows what it likes, when you reach puberty you don’t fucking decide which sex you like, you ask your dick.”
“i shoulda been a dyke. God, i don’t know if you exist, but if you do, you got me piiiiissed.”

steve buscemi listens to mozart while watching mtv, gave his money to an organization that helps aids patients and then openly criticized the government, hits his head with a dildo and lastly he explicitly wished that he wants to be lesbian. 

This film took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting to like it at all, but here we are. In many ways, this movie furthered and solidified my desires of wanting to live in the 80s. I want to live in this movie. I want to be friends with Nick, Michael and Joan. I want to go record shopping with Michael. I want to listen to Mozart with Nick. I want to throw parties with Joan.

A really great film-- Parting Glances proves that love is a universal (and complex) feeling. The film makes you feel like a fly on the wall, listening in on the most interesting conversations of the LGBT+ art cliques in New York. I wouldn't have minded if the film was twice as long, it felt like so much more catharsis and conclusion could've came out of Steve Buscemi's character getting more screentime with the main character, Michael. Includes a great soundtrack, and art cameos of the legendary Keith Haring.

ok yeah i watched this for gay steve buscemi and as usual he did not disappoint. the movie itself had realistic, developed characters/dialogue and was really enjoyable, def makes sense why critics consider this movie an important part of gay cinema.

Nucky Thompson plays a gay man struggling with HIV, and he’s never been more beautiful.

Steve Buscemi had TikTok lighting before it was cool

watch this movie or youre literally homophobic

Maybe it's just me but I could barely hear the audio for this one? The conversations were so quiet.

Not as funny as I thought it would be but it was good. Sad to hear about the director. I would have liked to see more of his stuff.

am i being forgetful or are there never any movie characters named robert? like sure there are tons of tv show characters named robert or bob but never in film. just a real peeve of mine there’s not any character named robert that i can relate to yaknow? anyways this movie is gay as shit