He's railing against family, friends and his own sexuality in Head On’s viscerally thrilling, seductively chilling film adaptation. Writer/director Ana Kokkinos perfectly casts Alex Dimitriades as Ari, the Greek teenager who’ll have a go at anything. It tackles immigrant culture clash, Melbourne’s class divisions, burgeoning sexuality and dangerously alluring abandon. With high hopes Holding the Man can cut through to mainstream audiences – the poster dubs it "a love story for everyone" – we take a look through the SBS On Demand vault for our favourite queer movies.Īnother Australian literary classic, Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded is the perfect hymn for disaffected youth.
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Wolf Creek 2 and The Water Diviner actor Ryan Corr plays Conigrave, with Craig Stott as Caleo in a great Australian movie bursting at the seams with home-grown talent including Guy Pearce, Anthony LaPaglia and Sarah Snook. Penned by Murphy and helmed by Candydirector Neil Armfield, Holding The Man perfectly balances both the love and unimaginable loss with a great deal of deftly judged humour.
Originally adapted for the stage by Tommy Murphy for Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company, the long-awaited big screen outing is now in cinemas. Their budding romance and enduring relationship, despite its ups and downs, is a seminal queer Australian text - even more so because of its unflinching detail of the horrors of the then unfolding HIV/AIDS crisis. Holding The Man is based on Timothy Conigrave’s memoir of his teenage love for school footy captain John Caleo. 16 Must-See Classic Gay Movies From Before You Were Born Dear millennials, the generation born during the 80s, these are the gay-themed movies some wonderful, some wonderfully terrible.