—Beautiful Thing
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Cast: Glen Berry (Jamie), Scott Neal (Ste), Linda Henry (Sandra)
UK | 1996 | 90 min
Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie’s mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to ‘top-and-tail’ with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. In deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra’s unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste’s family find out.
Paris is Burning
——Queerer Than Thou is a comedy that tackles the age-old question of Who is the queerest of them all?
With a cast representing many diverse aspects of LGBT/Queer communities, Queerer Than Thou explores the boundaries of identity, and the tensions that frequently exist along these borderlands.
Through off-beat humor and a surreal dance-off finale, Queerer Than Thou pokes fun at LGBT/Queer communities from within.
This unique and amusing critique of identity politics has screened at over 30 film festivals world wide and continues to screen at colleges throughout the US.
Movies / Film: Out At The Wedding
It is a comedy cocktail with a splash of southern comfort and a twist!Transplanted Southerner, Alex Houston (Andrea Marcellus), has found life as a successful wine importer in Manhattan to be a pretty fabulous life. Laughs come in spades from her best gay pal since childhood, Jonathan (Charlie Schlatter) and love is found in the package of Dana (Mystro Clark), a dreamy bi-racial airline pilot.
When he unexpectedly proposes to her the day she’s to leave town for her sister’s wedding, life gets complicated. Having assumed her southern family would never accept her ethnic boyfriend, she’s never told them he exists. In turn, she’s led Dana to believe her entire family is dead.
Now, don’t judge her too harshly, it was sort of a mix up that turned into genocide. Making an excuse to leave town, she takes Jonathan as her date to the wedding and figures once she gets through the weekend, she’ll come clean to everyone.
Once back in South Carolina, it’s a minefield of emotion as she deals with her distant father (Mike Farrell), her overly exuberant sister Jeannie (Desi Lydic) and all the relatives and friends of her past who can’t believe she’s still single.Especially curious is Alex’s dim high school sweetheart who misunderstands a conversation with Jonathan and starts spreading a rumor at the reception that she’s gay.
When an inebriated Alex gives a thinly veiled speech about her interracial relationship at the wedding, everyone mistakenly thinks it’s a big coming out speech. After unsuccessfully trying to set everyone straight so to speak, her right wing family has a decidedly left wing response and the lie actually brings them all closer.
As the two sisters build a relationship they’ve never been able to cultivate before, Alex can’t bring herself to fess up she’s straight. When Jeannie comes back from her honeymoon and wants to come to New York and meet Alex’s lesbian love “Dana,” Jonathan comes up with an idea to “hire” a girlfriend. That’s when things really start to get complicated!
Female Trouble
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“Mädchen in Uniform”: Girl-on-Girl Culture Circa 1931
A great highlight of classic lesbian cinema brought to you by the folks at Autostraddle!
“Yes, they were the sewing circle queers of classic cinema who acted in movies with titles like Pandora’s Box with little to no irony. Today, we celebrate them; the ghosts of gay girls past whose imaginations and feelings were once rendered cinematically.”
Bellafrankenstein sent this to me and it gave me a LOL. Sadly, too often too true.
However, here’s a list of some of my fave lesbian movies with HAPPY ENDINGS and where male relationships don’t interfere to any significant degree:
- D.E.B.S.
- But I’m A Cheerleader
- I Can’t Think Straight
- The Incredibly True Story of Two Girls In Love
- Tipping the Velvet
- Better Than Chocolate
- Fingersmith
- Drool
- Itty Bitty Titty CommitteeAnd here’s a few good ones with moderately happy endings:
- Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
- Albert Nobbs
- The GymnastI haven’t watched Saving Face yet, but I’m led to understand it’s another good one.
Bound
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Saving Face (2004)
Wil: So…how come we never met before now?
Vivian: We did meet. Nineteen years ago. I was 8, you were 9. Outside the temple.
Wil: I don’t remember.
Vivian: The Wong boys were taunting me about my parents’ divorce. You beat the crap out of them. You were wearing a Kristy McNichol T-shirt, tan cords and a pageboy. You spiled your mom’s groceries. We scooped them into a bag.
Wil: That’s right! And then…
Vivian: And then I kissed you on the nose…and you ran.
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The Journey of Jared Price
Pedro
—Boy Culture
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A directory for LGBTIQ films. Please submit!!! Definitely NSFW.
