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Old 07-26-2014, 12:09 AM
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Yes, Beautiful Thing! Thank you!

I picked up Terence Davies' Trilogy on BFI DVD when I bought Of Time And The City, it's sort of a more explicit and darkly humoured Catholic cousin of the Bill Douglas Trilogy I thought. I find having a Region 2 Pal player essential.

I've seen a bunch of Stonewall related docs thanks to the Seattle and Detroit PBS stations, but I paid to see the 2010 feature. I used to know an older person who had been around Manhattan (Christopher St.) back then and was fascinated to hear the stories first hand with such a great accent! I was in awe to have been in the presence of a survivor of the first order. To be honest some things were genuinely very scary sounding (as they still are in some places today); these people exhibited bravery in the U.S. above and beyond desperation... much like sister Rosa Parks or the segregated drug-store counter sitters.
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