Favorite Queer Cinema/TV

[Keaton]

A thread for top 10/25/whatevers!

There might not be many people on these boards that enjoy such things, but list your favorite queer movies/tv shows/anime whatever.

They can be accidentally gay, campy, simply created by a LGBT person, whatever. I'm not trying to *define* a genre or anything, just encourage some conversation.


Mine:

1. My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Van Sant)
2. Happy Together (1998, Wong Kar-Wai)
3. Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)
4. Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966, George Kuchar)
4. Caravaggio (1986, Derek Jarman)
5. Tropical Malady (2005, Apichatpong Weerasekathul)
6. Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
7. Querelle (1982, R. W. Fassbinder)
8. Flesh for Frankenstein/Blood for Dracula (1973/4, Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol)
9. Up! (1976, Russ Meyer)
10. Some Like it Hot (1958, Billy Wilder)

[Tobias March]

Blood for Dracula[/b] (1973/4, Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol)


Well I love this movie. And I'll always give Gregg Araki's work when it comes out.

[ultramandingo]

....... beyond the valley of the dolls( z-man !)
my beautiful laundrette
bound
fucking amål
mysterious skin
female trouble
hedwig and the angry inch
300

[Monty_Cristo]

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Interview with the Vampire
Top Gun
300
Bound

[ultramandingo]

.....man i got a lot of gay movies in my collection
L.I.E.
velvet goldmine
kiss kiss bang bang
faster pussy cat kill kill
angel at mt table
the hunger
boys dont cry
desperate living
la cage aux folles
hevenly creatures
last exit to brooklyn
the killer (!!!!!)
black lizard
cruising
dog day afternoon
gods and monsters
naked lunch
rope

[DrewTheXenocide]

That one episode of Roseanne was pretty cool.

[Keaton]

Ahhh such good choices!

Especially glad that someone else picked up on the gayness of The Killer. Haha.

[tangentman]

1. The Velvet Goldmine
2. The Opposite of Sex
3. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
4. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
5. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
6. Mysterious Skin
7. Gods & Monsters
8. Short Bus
9. The Children's Hour
10. Fried Green Tomatoes
11. The Doom Generation
12. Edward II
13. The Totally True Adventures of Two Girls in Love
14. Hedwig & The Angry Inch
15. Love! Valour! Compassion!
16. The Pillow Book
17. OZ
18. Sex & The City
19. Six Feet Under
20. The Velocity of Gary
21. The Color Purple
22. My Own Private Idaho
23. Andy Warhol's Trash
24. Female Trouble
25. Desperate Living

[Schornforce]

Here's my... odd... choices.

Pokemon- I don't care what anyone says, James is one of the gayest cartoon characters ever. Throw in Harley (even more flaming than James) and Botch-- er Butch (Harvey Fierstein or Doctor Girlfriend-- you decide) and you got'cherself a gayfest.

Trick- I loved this movie. Only partly due to Christian Campbell's hotness.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer- Willow and Tara is one of my favorite relationships ever.

Fruits Basket- In the manga, unfortunately, everyone is straight, despite jokes/scenes which hint at queerness. The anime, however, leaves it more up to the viewers' imaginations, neither confirming nor denying.

Fake- Another anime/manga. The anime was just a small story from the manga, but I remember it was the first manga I'd tried and it surprised me how it incorporated several genres effectively IMO. It's not for everyone, but I liked it.

But I'm a Cheerleader- I loved this movie and thought it was quite funny. I'm not a drama guy, so when I can see a good/decent gay-themed comedy, I'm quite pleased.

Home Movies- Walter and Perry may be supporting characters and li'l kids, but they're memorable and hilarious. The creators mentioned that they may be the happiest characters on the show, as all they need is each other.

Wizard of Oz- While not a queer movie, of course, it certainly has permeated into various aspects of gaydom.

Unfortunately, that's all I can think of offhand.

[Ontir]

Trick- I loved this movie. Only partly due to Christian Campbell's hotness.

I just met Miss Coco Peru two weeks ago, and we were talking about "IT BURNS!" :eek:

20. The Velocity of Gary

...and I met Tom Jane in the comic shop last week.

My list starts with:

the Boys in the Band (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065488/)
I've watched this film over and over and over. It might just be the first gay movie (meaning post-Stonewall), and it's as timely now as it was in 1968. Sadly there are only two cast members still living. One died recently, and the others, the gay actors, were all taken by AIDS.

Parting Glances (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091725/)

Bill Sherwood's brilliant, one-and-only, film is also the first AIDS comedy. A wonderful film that's inspired any number of queer filmmakers since its début in 1985, and introduced the world to Steve Buscemi and Kathy Kinney. It also features queer producer extraordinaire Christine Vachon as one of its editors.

Maurice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093512/)

E.M. Forster suppressed publication of this perhaps all too personal novel, until after his death. Merchant Ivory made an incredibly exact translation to film, and introduced the larger world, if not Britain to James Wilby, Rupert Graves, and Hugh Grant. Opulent, seductive, and despite being a pre-war period piece, still altogether too identifiable.

the Hanging Garden (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125128/)

Thom Fitzgerald borrows a bit from Buñuel in this somewhat surreal film about a gay man, who returns home on the eve of his sister's wedding, 10 years after his suicide, to confront his family, his secrets, and theirs.

Latter Days (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345551/)

Writer/Director C. Jay Cox found a picture of himself from his days as a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints, and wondered what the out gay man he'd become would tell the closeted pious boy he was, and what that boy would think of what he'd hear. The result is an amazing film that I didn't know I'd been waiting for. A truly great film!

Edge of Seventeen (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138414/)

The writer was meant to be the director, but got cold feet @ the last moment. David Moreton, the 1st AD, IIRC, stepped in and moved the project forward to great results. An amazing cast, including former Batman scripter, Andersen Gabrych.

Testosterone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378867/)

A follow up to his directorial début "the Edge of Seventeen," David Moreton took the reins of an adaptation of a well-received novel, and did an amazing job of it! Moving well beyond anything in the "Lorelei & Rorie Universe," David Sutcliffe gives an amazing performance as a jilted man, unable to accept his lover's disappearance, leaving him to seek the man (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) out in his native Argentina, with wild and intense results.

Well, there's definitely more, but I'll leave it there for now.

[insidemyhead]

I'm sure I'd have more if I was home to look at my shelf, but here goes:

Bad Education
Beautiful Thing
But I'm A Cheerleader
Get Real
LIE
Mysterious Skin
Y Tu Mama Tambien

[Naetnalta]

Ma Vie En Rose

[Ontir]

I'm sure I'd have more if I was home to look at my shelf, but here goes:

Bad Education
Beautiful Thing
But I'm A Cheerleader
Get Real
LIE
Mysterious Skin
Y Tu Mama Tambien

A great list, Ma Vie en Rose, too!

I'm going to add a recent release:

Shelter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942384/)

There's more detail on the "What film have you recently..." thread, but this is the best queer film I've seen this year. Here! distributed it, and if they don't take it to series, they're friggin' nuts!

the Trip (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250067/)

This is perhaps the first AIDS historical romance ever, and pretty good. The hair can be funny at times, but it's a well-made film, that really chronicles gay life from Stonewall through the pandemic, via one couple (and a fag-hag :tongue:).

the Adventures of Félix (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228242/)

Félix is a man living with, as opposed to dying from HIV, on a mission to find his estranged father. This is a wonderful, not to be missed film.

Time to Leave (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417189/)

Melvil Poupaud (currently in "Speed Racer," also seen in the great "Broken English") stars in another great film from Ozon, as a man determined to live on his own terms, even whilst dying.

My Beautiful Laundrette (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/)

What will Papa have a harder time accepting: Johnny's teen flirtation with the skin-head movement, or the fact that Omer is in love with him? A great film, the first time I'd seen Daniel Day Lewis, the first of Stephen Frears' films I'd ever seen, and a great introduction to Hanif Kureishi, a team which would go on to bring us the great Sammy & Rosie Get Laid.

Law of Desire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093412/) & Matador (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091495/)

I've put these together (but linked separately) because I saw these 2 Almodovar films on the same night, and was blown away by both. Both star Antonio Bandares, and both are amazing! If you've not seen them, you should also check out Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, High Heels, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, Kika, and Live Flesh

[Black Atom]

Top Gun. Even the name sounds kinda like a gay porno.

[rick]

6. Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)


One throw away joke does not a "queer" film make.

[Pixie_Solanas]

No "Velvet Goldmine"? No list is complete without that.

And "Top Gun", come on, the gay subtext was as subtle as a baseball bat to the window.

[jesse_custer]

Cronenberg's recent Eastern Promises has some rather odd queer moments.

I really loved Dafoe's performance in Boondock Saints.

Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures is heartbreaking and demands viewing for its emotional resonance and technical audacity.

[Keaton]

One throw away joke does not a "queer" film make.

Well, there's a very serious argument to be made for Cary Grant's character being totally and completely gay the entire time.

The film is classic fodder for queer theory.

[Superbeast]

No Priscilla Queen of The Desert or To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar yet? They were two of the most mainstream 90s transvestite movies around.

[Gilda Dent]

Favorite GLBT films in no particular order:

Ma Vei En Rose

Brokeback Mountain

Different for Girls

Soldier's Girl

Transamerica

Breakfast on Jupiter

Better than Chocolate

Saving Face

Boys Don't Cry

Kinky Boots

Beautiful Boxer

Iron Ladies (without question the greatest based-on-a-true-story drag queen volleyball movie every made).

Small Town Gay Bar

Southern Comfort

And on the bad side, easily the worst highly praised GLBT movie (by the mainstream press) of recent years is Normal.

[ultramandingo]

......... i was gona add " deliverance " but thats more of a best hillbilly movie thread

[ultramandingo]

Cronenberg's recent Eastern Promises has some rather odd queer moments.
.
........all nude vigo steam bath knife fight!

[rick]

Two British films that I really enjoyed....


The Naked Civil Servant: John Hurt just chews up the screen in this filmed biography of the life of writer Quentin Crisp.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Crisp was one of the bravest and toughest men of the entire 20th century, and anyone who let the fact that Crisp was, as he described himself, an “effeminate homosexual”, fool them into thinking that he was anything less, just hasn’t been paying attention to the real definition of tough.

And Hurt carries that strength that Crisp radiated, just by being himself, brilliantly.


Privates on Parade: A kind of funny and kind of sad story about a group of British gay enlisted men assigned to an “entertainment” battalion during WWII and their adventures. John Cleese plays the clueless commanding officer and there are some great slice of life moments in this small gem.

[kmeyers]

Two British films that I really enjoyed....


The Naked Civil Servant: John Hurt just chews up the screen in this filmed biography of the life of writer Quentin Crisp.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Crisp was one of the bravest and toughest men of the entire 20th century, and anyone who let the fact that Crisp was, as he described himself, an “effeminate homosexual”, fool them into thinking that he was anything less, just hasn’t been paying attention to the real definition of tough.

And Hurt carries that strength that Crisp radiated, just by being himself, brilliantly.

I haven't seen the movie you're talking about, but that description really reminds me of Val Kilmer's private detective character from Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Which is just an incredibly awesome movie.

[StoneGold]

........all nude vigo steam bath knife fight!

Wait, does that mean Borat counts?

[Ontir]

No Priscilla Queen of The Desert or To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar yet? They were two of the most mainstream 90s transvestite movies around.

They're not Transvestites, they're drag queens, except for Terrance Stamp's character, and she was a Transexual.

"Too Wong Foo" was OK, but not great.

the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is an amazing film. It never gives you what you're expecting, and it's a blast from start to finish.

That reminds me though:

the Rocky Horror Picture Show (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/)

Arguably the gayest movie ever made. No matter how many hundreds of times I see a worn out print of this film, I still love it.

"I was feeling done in... couldn't win. I'd only ever kissed... befo-oh-or..."

[Beamish]

Victor/Victoria
Absolutely Fabulous
America's Next Top Model
Project: Runway

[insidemyhead]

I hope Milk turns out to be good.

Emile Hirsch, James Franco, and Diego Luna, yum.

[titanfan]

Ma Vei En Rose

Brokeback Mountain

Different for Girls

Soldier's Girl

Transamerica

Breakfast on Jupiter

Better than Chocolate

Saving Face

Boys Don't Cry

Kinky Boots

Beautiful Boxer

Iron Ladies (without question the greatest based-on-a-true-story drag queen volleyball movie every made).

Small Town Gay Bar


Wow, you like the depressing/sad-ending ones....some of these were just too emotionally depressing for me to really like.

[Gilda Dent]

Wow, you like the depressing/sad-ending ones....some of these were just too emotionally depressing for me to really like.

Hmm, I hadn't really thought of it that way. Let's see, of those on my list, only Brokeback Mountain, Soldier's Girl, and Boys Don't Cry have overtly downer endings. All of the rest have endings that range from hopeful to happy.

[Deathstroke]

But I'm a Cheerleader- I loved this movie and thought it was quite funny. I'm not a drama guy, so when I can see a good/decent gay-themed comedy, I'm quite pleased.

I thought this was a fantastic movie.

[hugh45]

WTH!!??:
no Crying Game,Eat Drink Man Woman

[Kaled]

I remember a movie, I think from the 1990's about two guys in Britian and I cannot remember the movie and I hoe someone out there can. As I said it was set in Britian and the blond boy worked in a club or was a music promoter. His boyfriend had just come out and was wanting to be like an underground fighter. The blond had a girl who was tring to make it in the music business and was jealous of the boyfriend and she tried to break them up. It also had Roger Daltry of the Who. Anybody remember the name of the movie?

[titanfan]

I remember a movie, I think from the 1990's about two guys in Britian and I cannot remember the movie and I hoe someone out there can. As I said it was set in Britian and the blond boy worked in a club or was a music promoter. His boyfriend had just come out and was wanting to be like an underground fighter. The blond had a girl who was tring to make it in the music business and was jealous of the boyfriend and she tried to break them up. It also had Roger Daltry of the Who. Anybody remember the name of the movie?

"Like it is"

I fell in love with the lead actor watching this movie and I learned he actually is a real boxing champ.

[tangentman]

WTH!!??:
no Crying Game,Eat Drink Man Woman

How do you justify Eat Drink, Man, Woman as "Queer Cinema"? Excellent movie, certainly, but for the life of me, I can't remember any queer themes? The entire cast were heterosexual. Are you sure you're not thinking of The Wedding Banquet?

[jesse_custer]

WTH!!??:
no Crying Game,Eat Drink Man Woman

Right, Crying Game was one of those films that stuck in my head for days.

[hugh45]

How do you justify Eat Drink, Man, Woman as "Queer Cinema"? Excellent movie, certainly, but for the life of me, I can't remember any queer themes? The entire cast were heterosexual. Are you sure you're not thinking of The Wedding Banquet?

Thanks T Man, it was "The Wedding Banquet" :frown:

[tangentman]

Thanks T Man, it was "The Wedding Banquet" :frown:

An honest mistake--I love Ang Lee films, and his ability to believably portray gay men (despite being a straight director) never fails to impress me. Honestly, while I loved The Crying Game and Lee's work, I wanted to leave opportunities for others to mention these wonderful films.

When Crying Game first opened in theaters, I heard about the "Surprise". My creative writing professor told me I'd probably appreciate it. I saw the evening show with a friend. Well before the big moment, I saw where Jordan was going. I stifled my snickers, eagerly awaiting to see if I'd guessed right. When Dill was "revealed", I lmao while people around me gasped. That movie really drew all sorts of strong responses--from profound admiration to shock to disgust. A powerful story with so much happening!

[jesse_custer]

The penis revelation in The Crying Game was the hot topic, but I found myself being even more shocked by other scenes in the movie.

[Ontir]

If you'd spent any time around drag queens, you KNEW Dill wasn't a woman, at least not a birth-female. It was fun waiting for the big reveal, and the gasp of the audience who clearly had no clue. Also, because it was a British film, they could really REVEAL. If it were American, it wouldn't have been so forthright, and people wouldn't have enjoyed the shock in the way that kept them mum when recommending it to friends.