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30 Best LGBT Films of All Time — An alternative to the BFI list
Note on August 2, 2017: I just rewatched Mike Nichols' 6-hour AIDS-era accounting of the spirit of American democracy. (How else should I describe it?) In light of it, and in its afterglow which I'm going to live with for several days, I imagine, there is no film on...
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The 30 Best [Euro-Gringo, Establishment-Cinephile] LGBT Films of All Time?
It's more than a little weird to me that although over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers voted on the 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time, there's not a surprise on it. I appreciate the inclusion of Portrait of Jason and Genet's Un chant d'amour — the latter still...
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78 Significant Gay Movies Since 2000
Note: In making this list of gay movies, I considered what was important to me, rather than what was important to the culture at large, not least because there are inevitably estadounidense biases, and often European ones as well, built-in to lists like these. As a...
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film note: The Everlasting Secret Family
This 80s-era oddball gay-themed movie from Australia left me bemused.
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film note: God’s Own Country
A beautiful look and a keenly felt sense of time and place plus one moving lead performance can’t cover up the contrivance of the central romance.
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film note: My Brother the Devil
This gay-themed, London-based debut feature from Sally El Hosaini is worth a look for its cultural insights and sensitivity, as well as great performances, but the gay relationship seems forced.
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