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DVD: “Slow West,” “Gerontophilia,” “Of Girls And Horses,” & More!

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What a hot and bothered bunch of characters and movies we have this week in home entertainment, from a young hot Canadian queer boy with a hankering for the elderly (Gerontophilia, above) to women and men (like hunky Michael Fassbender) and their horses, plus a real-life LGBT uprising in Texas.

What are the titles and details, you ask? Read on!

 

Slow West

($24.99 Blu-ray, $19.98 DVD; Lionsgate)

In this lyrical sleeper of a period Western, Michael Fassbender plays a bounty hunter who helps a lovestruck 16-year-old Scot (Kodi Smit-McPhee, soon to be seen as Nightcrawler in the next X-Men movie) track down the woman he’s smitten by. Extras include deleted scenes and a featurette.

 

Gerontophilia

($24.99 DVD; Strand)

Canadian director/provocateur Bruce La Bruce mines a very different kind of gay romance with his latest film, in which a teenage Montrealer, Lake (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie), indulges his blossoming sexual attraction to elderly men when he lands a job in a nursing home. While juggling a tense family life and girlfriend, he falls for openly gay patient, 81-year-old Melvyn Peabody (Walter Borden), and decides to break him out of the facility to fulfill a bucket list goal… Sweet and transgressive — bonus points for Lake pursuing a relatively fey and non-white elderly man to boot, a spit in the face of that “no fems” and racist attitude we see too much of in the dating pool these days — fans of John Waters’ post-’90s films will have a satisfying date movie here for sure. Extras include a Q&A with La Bruce at MoMA.

 

Of Girls And Horses

($24.95 DVD; Wolfe)

German director Monika Treut, a trailblazer during the New Queer Cinema movement with classics under her belt like The Virgin Machine, returns again with this dramatic coming of age tale about a petulant teenager who learns some valuable lessons with help from a lesbian horse riding instructor.

 


Raid of the Rainbow Lounge

($19.99 DVD; Camina Entertainment)

In 2009, a brutal police raid of a Fort Worth, Texas gay dance club sparked off a powerful outrage and activist movement, transforming the city profoundly. Director Robert L. Camina’s documentary retells the incident from witness interviews and chronicles the repercussions and political LGBT progressiveness that followed.

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woman-in-gold-blu-ray-cover-36Woman In Gold

 

Saugutuck Cures

 

Maggie

 

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

 

Coming Out: Season 2

 

 

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