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  • christine posted an update in the group Group logo of auT.O.straddleauT.O.straddle 12 years, 3 months ago

    Hey all – just to “refresh the page” so to speak:
    Next meetup is Saturday June 11, and we’re opening the board again for meeting place suggestions :)

  • Favorite queer asian movies? Mine are Saving Face and Spider Lilies :)

    • I’ve never seen any. Can I ask where you’ve seen them? Can I get them from a video store or watch them online?

    • Saving Face is also a personal favorite of mine!!

      • isn’t it hilarious? :D i have tried showing it to friends of mine but unless they are chinese they don’t get 90% of the humor. sadly most of my friends are not chinese

        • Ha!! I recommended this film to my straight friends, they also loved it! I am half (if that’s possible) Chinese-American.
          Now you have one more Chinese friend (me!) than before. ; )

    • oh! I love this question, I’m so happy this thread exists. There’s a Taiwanese four part film called Panda Candy (or maybe collection of four shortish films – they aren’t really connected), I think it’s available on Tudou. I really liked it.

      Also, YES, Saving Face, and the start of Spider Lilies, with the green wig.

      • Also, it isn’t queer but in Suzhou River a girl dresses up as a mermaid and swims around in a mermaid tank, so can I mention that here, too?

        • Hahaha really? That’s awesome. I haven’t seen Panda Candy, will have to check that out. I also saw a Taiwanese movie called Drifting Flowers but the storylines as far as I recall were kind of fuzzy. But I watched that a few years back. Maybe I should watch it again.

      • Is it Candy Rain? (if my recollections are correct)

        • Oh! Yes, some quick googling reveals that your recollections are totally right, thanks! I think maybe I mashed up the title with The Panda Candy? Which is also gay and Chinese, but which I haven’t seen. But once I tried to see it, and so the name was all up in my head…

          • I don’t know either of those but I spent like, an hour trying to find streaming version of panda candy and no success :( it is HARD to find Asian films in America! (or maybe I just don’t know where to look??)

          • : D I watched Candy Rain!! It is very pretty to look at, but… the stories were kinda…strange.

            • Agreed. On the strangeness. And the pretty to look at. It was few years ago now, but I think I remember being impressed by the one with the girl and the cups of coffee and the light up bed? And least impressed by the one where everyone turned into comicbook characters in a bookshop? But idk, I think maybe I’m more tolerant of that stuff now, so…[Read more]

              • Haha.. what the heck was up with the 4th story? I agree, the coffee story was the best written imo. I liked the movie overall because despite the fact that all the characters felt like caricatures, there was something very open ended about it… and somehow turned out to be a more realistic depiction of love’s many forms than all the crap that…[Read more]

                • Fast work! And yes, I agree. I will check out Dolls, although I can’t promise such a fast turn around period. Does anyone have an opinion on Blue Gate Crossing? I keep meaning to go back and watch it all the way through, because once I started and then something happened and then I didn’t watch more than like 20 minutes.

                  • I saw Blue Gate Crossing today, it’s cute and very innocent. A little slowly paced and I thought Yue-zhen was incredibly ridiculous/borderline creepystalker/what my mom would call “shen jing bing” but overall the movie made me smile. (I have too much time on my hands, apparently…either that or I’ve been overworking so frequently I can’t remember…[Read more]

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