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Please suggest some for me to watch while I am stuck at home with *lets hope its not swine flu*..
I'm quite fond of international films and have been watching a few from the festival circuit. Our local festival was called Outtakes and I loved it. Will write about more about them in the morning .
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In no particular order: "Better than Chocolate", "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "Victor Victoria" are both fun and cute, "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" is a classic (if you like camp it's a must-see, otherwise its appeal may be limited), "Latter Days" is an interesting look at the conflict faced by religious queer folk, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" is a really well-done film that deals with gender identity issues, "Angels in America" (another classic) is incredibly well done, incredibly sad, and incredibly long, and "Walk on Water" is nice because it has a gay character but his sexual orientation isn't The Point of the Movie, it just kind of is. I believe those are all from the U.S. except for Priscilla (which I believe is from Australia) and Walk on Water (which is Israeli).
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To add to that fantastic list, I'm a huge fan of Kissing Jessica Stein and also of To Wong Foo. Then there's Velvet Goldmine (which is really a movie about glam rock, but all of the main characters are queer) and Imagine Me and You.
I'll probably think of more and add them later.
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Clearly, I've been deprived and have alot to catch up on.
"Finn's Girl"- Canadian film, main character is a lesbian mum who runs an abortion clinic. Liked it, but the science was quite far-fetched.
"I can't think straight" and "The world unseen"- both South African, with the same gorgeous actors. Played to big crowds of women with lots of whistles and catcalls.
"Love my Life"- Japanese. Really cute, funny and feel-good.
"Nothing else matters" (Was am End Zahlt)- German, unconventional lesbian love story. Not that special but worth a look.
"Seeds of summer"- Israeli doco about young women in the military. Eye-opening.
"Shelter"- US, a couple of gay surfers, really recommend this one!
"XXY"- Argentina. About an intersex teenageer, raised as a girl. More painful than uplifiting but worth watching.
"Nina's heavenly delights"- My favourite. Indian characters, set in Scotland- amazing accents. Queerness not the point of the movie. Really lovely and positive.
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Aaaah! Aimee and Jaguar. How could I forget? Awesome, awesome German movie about a Jewish revolutionary falling in love with the wife of a Nazi official during WWII. Both women, obviously. Absolutely wonderful.
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"The Journey"- one of the first Indian movies to feature a lesbian relationship in a rural setting. (The very first one was "Fire"). Just subtle and beautiful.
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Oh! By now I certainly hope you're feeling better, but I thought of one more. I haven't seen it, but Chutney Popcorn is supposed to be really good both as a lesbian movie and in dealing with the tensions of a cross-cultural relationship of a generic-white-U.S.-ian and an Indian-American.
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I just watched "But I'm a Cheerleader", I thought it was an amazing movie, I watched it with my mom and she thought it was really good too, it's effective satire and the relationship between Megan and Graham (they are both girls) is convincing.
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Soldier's Girl is a TV movie about a man who joins the US army, and falls in love with a transgender nightclub performer. The acting is amazing (Lee Pace is a genius), and it deals with some really heavy themes while still being beautiful, tender, and unexpectedly touching. I watched it simply because it had one of my favourite actors in a unique role, and came away a bit rattled and incredibly grateful I watched it. I'd honestly never given much thought to transgender people and what their life must be like or why they decide to transition, but afterwards...I don't know. I felt enlightened and strangely liberated.
It's also very sad. Seeing the attitudes of the soldiers towards anything 'queer' was shocking for a country that is supposedly so accepting. The tensions escalate until it reaches a scene that literally made me feel like I'd been punched in the stomach. I cried, and that's something I rarely do. Highly recommended. I'll try to check a few of these other movies out; they sound interesting.
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I've been meaning to add this movie to the list for a while, and I just remembered again because I recommended it to my Gender Studies Prof this morning: Stage Beauty. Possibly THE best movie I've ever seen on what gender and gender identity mean, with arguably THE best bed-scene ever (much sexier than the actual sex-scene ... you'll know what I mean when you see it). Some day, I want to be in bed with someone and have that conversation. Seriously.
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Oooh, I saw Stage Beauty a few years ago and absolutely *loved* it... such a great film on so many levels. Thanks for the reminder; I should find it to watch again soon, Joey! Posts: 3318 | Registered: Jun 2003
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[I actually ordered it off Amazon after watching it on arte pretty much on accident, but it hadn't arrived yet by the time I moved away. *sigh* It will be waiting for me when I come home for Xmas.]
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Does anyone know which of these would be available at Blockbuster or another movie store???? I really want something where, while there are queer characters, there are other elements I look for in movies (i.e. action, romance the list is diff than that but it is very late at night)
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Hey moonlight, I'm glad to see you've found this thread. I've always found at least a few queer-themed films at Blockbuster although I haven't been there in a few years. (I know Netflix would have tons for sure if that's an option/of interest.) They may not have a queer film section per se but if you wonder around and read the back of the films (try the drama and foreign film section for starters, I'd say), you'll probably find some. And if you're feeling comfortable you could always ask a friendly-looking employee about queer films and certainly you can ask for these titles. Not everyone might be warm but a queer friend of mine worked at Blockbuster in the past and, regardless, it's their job to help you find the films you want, not judge you.
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moonlight, if you want to list some more of the elements that you're into, I might be able to think of some more recommendations that Blockbuster would probably carry. You can also always call the store to check ahead of time.
I'm pretty sure Blockbusters tend to carry all of the movies NonStraightAnswers, September and Felixosaurus listed (excluding Love is the Devil and To Wong Foo...but that's just a guess). Some other goodies that you could probably find are: The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Beautiful Thing, and If These Walls Could Talk 2.
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Old thread I suppose, but one of my favourite films ever is Mambo Italiano - it's a Canadian movie about the son of Italian immigrants who finally comes out to his parents, but has to hide the fact that his best friend from high school is his lover. It's absolutely hilarious.
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"Were the World Mine" is a fun film- it was playing, surprisingly enough, on an Air Canada plane! It has camp, musical stylings, and Shakespeare references...a pretty awesome mix. It's about a gay teenage boy who is in love with a jock at his high school, and has to endure a lot of homophobia. He gets cast as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and then realizes that he can create a love potion to make anyone fall in love with anyone else, regardless of gender...
I would also really, really, really recommend the BBC adaptations of Sarah Waters' books Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith (I hear 'Affinity' is good too, but I haven't seen it yet). Sarah Waters writes great lesbian historical fiction; Tipping the Velvet is set in Victorian England and it's about a girl who falls in love with a male impersonator and follows her to London, with all kinds of fascinating results (let me just say that there is a very interesting lesbian s&m culture in Victorian England). Fingersmith is about a pick-pocket who participates in a scheme to steal a heiress's fortune, to satisfyingly queer results.
If you watch any of the above, I would love to hear your thoughts! Good luck!
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Trying to see what's missing here. Did anyone mention... • Fire • Lianna • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love • Maurice • Bound • Go Fish • Philadelphia • Brokeback Mountain • Desert Hearts • My Beautiful Laundrette • My Own Private Idaho • Picture at Hanging Rock • Some Like it Hot
And I feel like I must be blind and just am not seeing it, because I can't believe it's not on the list yet -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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Just in case anyone hasn't seen these and wants recommendations - out of that last list I've seen Bound and Brokeback Mountain - Brokeback is genuinely excellent and profoundly moving; it really stayed with me in a way that most films don't. Bound is more of a thrillery romp, but is still awesome. Rocky Horror is silly but fun, and queer as heck.
Haven't seen La Cage Aux Folles (The Birdcage) mentioned - there's a pretty good film of it, I think with Robin Williams in, but if you get the chance go and see the musical: it's fantastic. (I haven't seen the original play but I'm sure that's good too.) It's a feel-good, being-true-to-yourself kinda story.
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I really liked Puccini for Beginners (and bonus points for having a Hitachi wand instead of a Rabbit shown in the movie). And I'll second Mambo Italiano.
I'll have to Soldier's Girl. I haven't heard of it before, but Lee Pace is just too awesome for words.
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Reading this thread is bringing up all sorts of happy memories.
Some other favs that haven't been listed:
• High Art • By Hook or By Crook • The Laramie Project • The Hours • When Night Is Falling • The Times of Harvey Milk • Milk • The Celluloid Closet • Small Town Gay Bar • Tales of the City (miniseries)
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Oh GAWD: I just have to pitch in and say that When Night is Falling reminded me of Before Night Falls, which I somehow totally spaced out. It is, IMO, one of the most amazing, beautiful, painful, poignant and heartwrenching movies EVER. And so, so well-acted by Javier Bardem.
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This thread is awesome, I now have a long list of films I really want to see.
I also thought of Ma Vie En Rose, about gender identity, which I haven't seen but it's supposed to be really good: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119590/
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Hey Heather, just a quick correction to your earlier list - (I can't believe no one mentioned Fire earlier) - It's Picnic at hanging Rock, not Picture. I havn't watched it in years, and must have missed the queer aspect. It's also where I spent the first few years of my life, as an aside.
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- Tipping the velvet - one of my favourite books/films ever.
- Fingersmith (though I'd recommend reading the book first because it's such an awesome ride and once you've seen the film it won't be the same)
- Show me love (F**king Amal) - Great Swedish coming-of-age film.
- Velvet goldmine - I don't usually take an interest in guy on guy stuff, but this is an excellent film with an excellent cast.
- Under the Tuscan sun - so this isn't really a queer film (though it does have queers in it), but it's a really uplifting story that just leaves you feeling fresh and hopeful.
- Imagine Me & You - touching love story.
- 8 femmes (8 women) - French mystery/musical/comedy that takes un unexpected sapphic turn.
I hope you're feeling better soon!
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I have seen dozens of queer films over the years (hooray for my undergraduate college's collection as well as friends who shared) but can't remember ALL of the titles so I'll include a few superlatives below. I agree with many films others have already listed. I also recognize that my list is pretty North America-centric but there are definitely more great films from all over.
All-Time Favorite: But I'm a Cheerleader (I love how this plays with-- and challenges-- clichés and stereotypes. I'll spare you quotes for now. )
Corniest (in a good way!): The Amazingly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (I don't know about you but I find that even cheesy love stories feel much more authentic and dear when the characters are LGBT.)
Saddest: The Hours (I don't usually get teary eyed during movies but I bawled the whole time... too bad I only had two tissues with me!)
Most rock'n'roll: Velvet Goldmine (I was a big fan of David Bowie for a long time.)
Sexiest (to me): Stage Beauty (It raises questions about gender and more in such a fun, flirty way!)
Favorite Black and white film: Some Like it Hot ("Nobody's perfect!" )
Not-exactly-queer-but-perhaps-honorarily-so: the original Hairspray (Because it challenges so much, like racism and sizeism, and, well, John Waters is the director!)
Most surprising: Y Tu Mamá También (I love Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.)
Most recently watched: The Nomi Song (documentary) and Coming Out (Old East German film)
Most obscure: C.R.A.Z.Y. (I'm sure there are actually a ton of people who have seen this French-Canadian film but I haven't run into them yet if you exclude the friend I saw it in a German movie theater-- and, well, the others there, too! Is it well-known in Canada?
I want to see Little Ashes next, and still have to see Brokeback Mountain (because I know it's going to be sad) and Milk (I had been trying to save money by renting it from the library but it's a hot item!)
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@ ecofem - I reckon pretty much anything by John Waters could be comfortably called queer - Hairspray being no exception - and recommended viewing
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[I just re-read this thread before posting and feel suitable embarrassed for failing to mention Rocky Horror Picture Show the first time around, because that's one of my all-time fave movies. And, as far as Some Like it Hot is concerned, I'm actually doing a presentation on a queer reading of that movie for a class next week. ]
Anyway. I came to post about the wonderful movie I watched last night, Mein Freund aus Faro (My (Boy)friend from Faro), which is a fairly recent German movie about a young woman who doesn't feel comfortable with her gender and ends up assuming the identity of a guy and falling in love with a girl. It's incredibly well done, with a lot of respect for the characters.
It also reminds me a lot of Boys Don't Cry, which, as it turns out, no one has mentioned in this thread yet! Shame on you.
And finally, I should also add Interview with the Vampire to this list, though the movie isn't nearly as queer as the book.
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Queer films are a big hobby of mine. I enthusiastically second the recommendations of F***ing Åmål, Ma vie en rose, Boys Don't Cry, The Times of Harvey Milk, Maurice and Aimée & Jaguar.
I have lots of other recs -- what about
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
All Over Me
Naissance des pieuvres (English title Water Lilies)
Coming Out (gay guys in East Berlin!)
Personal Best
Two of Us
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Turns out there are a lot of films called Two of Us, so I should specify I meant the 1987 one from Brit TV. I love it to pieces. It's about male bisexuality, about male longings for romance, about love, about gay-bashing, about sorting out relationships, about relationships being about other things than sex, about unfair age-of-consent laws. A teenaged gay boy, asked "Do you think you could never be with a girl?" replies "I didn't say that. I'm happy as I am." That's so much more affirming than the can't-help-it-was-born-that-way discourse that dominates now. A teenaged bi boy, when his boyfriend is embarrassed about hugging in public, says "Footballers do it, don't they? Thousands watch them. Millions." I so much prefer that to the somewhat stereotyped quasi-gender roles that prevail in the more recent films Beautiful Thing and Get Real.
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I've recently completing shooting a queer feature film, funded and filmed entirely in Chicago! "And They Call It Puppy Love" tells the story of Vincent and Craig: different men from different social spheres who cannot deny their unlikely feelings for each other. As their romance blossoms, trust and dependency are formed, but one night is all it takes to start chipping away at the foundation of their relationship. And when Craig finds himself in mortal danger, he turns to Vincent with an almost impossible request... We are now in need of support to help get our film finished and in theaters and on the web for everyone to see! Please take a look at our funding campaign and consider helping:
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I really want to see this. Also on my must-watch list are Tomboy (the newly released one), Órói, Ang tatay kong nanay, Macho Dancer, Le voyage à Deauville, Blue Jeans ou Du beurre aux allemands, Drôle de Félix, La chatte à deux têtes, The Leather Boys, The Fruit Machine, and most André Téchiné movies.
Somebody mentioned The Celluloid Closet? Also a good watch. I liked The Lavender Lens: 100 years of celluloid queers a lot as well.
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...sounds great! Will keep an eye out.
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LOST AND DELIRIOUS!!! unless i missed someone saying it? BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. ever. also, High Art.
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If nobody here's familiar with the queer films that came out of early-twentieth-century Germany, go and look. Anders als die Andern, Die Büchse der Pandora, Geschlect in Fesseln, Mädchen in Uniform, Michael, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, and there must be more...
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Are we counting kinky as queer? Because I was deeply impressed by a 2006 German film called Verfolgt (English title Hounded or Punish Me). It was directed by a woman and written by another woman, and both the director and the lead actress are out lesbians, so that's cool to start with. It won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno film festival.
Now, the relationship depicted here is emphatically NOT 'healthy'. We have a married 50-year-old woman whose only child, a daughter, has recently left home, and who works as a competent and well-respected probation officer for teenagers. We have a 16-year-old boy, one of the probationees she supervises, who's been in a juvenile facility for three years for robbery etc. He decides he wants a BDSM relationship with her with himself as a submissive, and follows her around till he gets what he wants, although she at first tells him in no uncertain terms to leave her alone. She has never been involved in BDSM before but finds she enjoys the role of dominant and gradually an impossible love grows between them. Also, I know that in BDSM you're supposed to have safewords and they don't, both being BDSM novices in their different ways, although they don't do anything too extreme. So yeah...if the boy, Jan, were to post on these boards, he'd probably be told to get out of the relationship posthaste.
But. I hear that many women have submission fantasies. I don't, nor do I have domination fantasies. The whole idea of myself being involved in something like that, even if only in my imagination, is not only alien to me, but frightening and repulsive. Just...no, as they say. But this film managed to make BDSM desires and their enaction understandable to me, to make me sympathise. And from what I've read from actual BDSM practitioners, the BDSM scenes, which are filmed in a restrained manner, were realistic. I can't vouch for that, but there's realism everywhere else, such as in the friendship between Jan and a fellow male probationee his own age. The film can just touch lightly on something and make it convincing. And there's a powerful indirect statement near the end about the difference between consensual BDSM and nonconsensual violence.
Tolerance in this area means how accepting you are of other people's sexual likes which you do not share. Verfolgt made me a lot more understanding of people into BDSM.
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Now for the French list...The French are good at this kind of thing. I have seen and liked: Zéro de conduite, Les amitiés particulières, Une histoire sans importance, Juste une question d'amour, Un amour à taire, Avant que j'oublie, Le temps qui reste, Son frère, Tout contre Léo, Les roseaux sauvages, La ville dont le prince est un enfant and Nous étions un seul homme.
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Tokyo Godfathers - Animated film about three homeless people living in Tokyo, one of whom identifies themselves as either a gay man or a woman (or rather, it seems like they identify as a transgendered woman who is attracted to men but regret that they are not "biologically female") throughout the film, (the other two are a guy in his 40s/50s with an estranged daughter and a 13 year old girl) their name is Hana and they're a really awesome character, in the movie these three people find a baby in a dumpster on christmas eve and try to return it to it's parents. Please see it, it's a wonderful film.
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Sounds really, really interesting. Will see if I can get it off Lovefilm or something.
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Where might I find it? Can't seem to dig it up on the internet.
Scratch that, found it!
I wasn't expecting much of this as I've seen the same idea done rather badly in two films, one short, one full-length. This one was a lot better. I liked that the kids weren't sanitised: they swore, they got drunk, they had impulsive sex. They seemed remarkably unconcerned about the legal consequences -- life in prison if I heard right! -- and why wouldn't they know about condoms? Exclusively having homosex doesn't get rid of STI risks. Also, the acting could have been better. But on the whole I liked it. This is the sort of thing that works best as a short film; the idea is too thin for a full-length film.
Other GLBTQ-themed short films I like: Trevor, James, Private Life, 13 ans, Un beau jour un coiffeur (One Fine Day a Hairdresser), Daniel endormi, Tre somre (Three Summers), Tout le monde est parfait, Hoi Maya (Hi Maya), Last Exit, 5 Telephone Conversations, Available Men, Amor crudo (Raw Love), Bikini, Davy and Stu, Le prisonnier, Du même sang, Chicken, Kysset som fikk snøen til å smelte (A Kiss in the Snow), Paginas de Menina (Pages of a Girl), Café com leite (You, Me and Him), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral, Bugcrush, Bobbycrush, Dottie Gets Spanked, Bennys Gym.
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Hello! I sort of liked it too. But yes, why didn't they know what condoms were? And what happens to bisexual people in these films, why are they invisible?
Since you like french films, have you seen "Gigola"? I thought it was pretty hot, albeit somewhat depressing.
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I am awed by your depth of knowledge, I haven't even watched Brokeback Mountain yet, though I have it on DVD, in fact the only queer films I actually have seen that I remember seeing are the aforementioned Tokyo Godfathers, But I'm a Cheerleader, The History Boys, and My Beautiful Launderette, I don't know whether Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight Cowboy would count, I have some other stuff on DVD and VHS waiting to be watched, but I'm veery slow at working through my DVD collection so far, my best conversation topic is "wasn't Ken FABULOUS in Toy Story 3".
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quote:And what happens to bisexual people in these films, why are they invisible?
Actually, even in Brokeback Mountain, often called a gay movie/book by straight people, at least one of the two characters' sexuality is very much presented as fluid. It seems to me that in that film, bisexuality is very much present in the character of Jack, at a minimum.
Some other films with bisexual characters? Cabaret, The Color Purple, Y tu mamá también (a film I LOVE), Transamerica, Velvet Goldmine, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Pillow Book, My Own Private Idaho, High Art, Go Fish and Frida. If you want just one good TV example, Torchwood (UK) is all over it. So was the US show Nip/Tuck.
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