Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Good Morning, World


I am going to have more to share on this later this week -- wink wink, on Thursday -- but for this here Tuesday morning I thought I'd greet us with a few gifs from the 1988 lost-classic Apartment Zero starring Hart Bochner and Colin Firth, a film that yes, I have spoken of my infatuation with previously. (Even as recently as last week, haha.) I realized (and tweeted) recently that my boyfriend, a noted Hart enthusiast, had somehow never seen this film, and so we watched it last night...

... this film's gotten extremely difficult to watch; it's not streaming anywhere so far as I could tell. You can buy an old really shitty-quality DVD on Amazon or eBay for 15-20 dollars (or a slightly newer shitty DVD for seventy-plus dollars) which was how we watched it last night; I'd bought a copy last year... and it turned out the DVD was broken and wouldn't play the film's last five minutes. Argh! I did find an even worse quality copy on YouTube that has annoying unnecessary subtitles splashed across it, so I was able to show the boyfriend the movie's end, thankfully. But I also noticed the YouTube copy has a few scenes that were not included on my DVD; one right before the end that out-of-nowhere cruel to the film's trans character (glad this scene got cut from our U.S. version), as well as the scene I giffed here, of Hart gratuitously taking his shirt off to taunt poor, cluelessly closeted Colin.

Anyway I will have more on this movie come Thursday -- I'm just saying if I am inspiring you to watch the movie between now and then, or like ever, it will be a pain in the ass to do so. Alas. I can't believe somebody like Kino or dare-to-dream Criterion hasn't gotten on updating this film to blu-ray, it's fascinating and funny and real strange and even more queer than I remembered it being. 



3 comments:

Frank said...

Does he plan on selling that t-shirt on eBay?

Hot guys said...

Literally just watched Colin Firth with Stanley Tucci in Supernova (2020). It was good. 👍🏻 Think some of your visitors will probably want to watch it, too. 🙂

Jason Adams said...

Yes, I reviewed Supernova here -- that was the top of the hill that rolled my memory back down to this movie, haha