My Life as a Cry Baby

Scene from the film My Life as a Dog

Films that have made me teary-eyed (or cry)

1. My Life as a Dog, last night on BBC4
2. E.T.
3. The Neverending Story
4. Central Station
5. Boys Don't Cry
6. Schindler's List
7. The Colour Purple
8. The Station Agent
9. Buena Vista Social Club
10. Fucking Amal (also known as Show Me Love)
11. Beautiful Thing
12. Together
13. Nights of Cabiria


There have also been instances in front of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Brat Camp (the first British season), and various assorted documentaries about regular families who manage to overcome some kind of obstacle and be stronger/better/happier. And I'm sure there are films I'm not remembering right now.

I need to own a copy of My Life as a Dog. Watched it last night, felt like doing nothing afterwards but thinking about it. Some films feel like a beautiful, and truthful, novel put to life, and that was one of them.

Forbidden Latin Gay Kiss & Canadia Oscar Contender

I just found out tonight that someone I knew in my university's residence ran for a documentary Oscar last year. She was a very nice, timid kinda girl. Good for her.

Gay Kiss Update: It didn't happen. The TV station buckled under massive protests by the hundreds of thousands of hypocrites in Brasil, who have already seen plenty of gays on cable TV, not to mention in their daily lives, yet couldn't bare to see two good-looking men kiss on a soap opera.

O Brasil não tem jeito.