Brokeback does something that has been a hope and dream for a long time for a lot of us in the film business - which is it goes inside a mainstream Hollywood genre and takes the big, big, big, romantic, epic, tragic, love story and just goes right dead center to the mainstream and queers it. - James Schamus, producer, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, from FABULOUS! The Story of Queer Cinema |
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People began to see that Gay people had a community, an actual community. These weren't just people isolated within their own worlds. It was the first time that the straight world thought, "Wow, they are a real people. They are a real group of people who are dealing with really traumatic issues." - writer Michaelangelo Signorile on film on the early 90's |
When we sit there in the dark we're seeing more than a story, more than a plot, more than a happy ending. We're really seeing scripts for our own lives, scripts for our own fantasies and nightmares. - B. Ruby Rich, Film Critic |
“When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen.” “All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism - keeps me from approaching a project too autobiographically.” - Pedro Almodovar |
BRAVO has presented a special - FABULOUS! - The Story of Queer Cinema. Finding a lack of regular LGBTQ programming on television (SBNO has DISH and does not receive LOGO), we listed all the films mentioned in the Bravo special. The list is included here for the reader's entertainment and edification: |
Flaming Creatures 1963 Blow Job 1964 Flesh 1968 Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 1972 The Damned 1969 Decameron 1971 Death In Venice 1971 Fox and His Friends 1975 The Killing of Sister George 1968 Salo 1975 Teorema 1968 Fellini's Satyricon 1969 Sunday, Bloody Sunday 1972 Victim 1961 Je, tu, il, elle 1974 Superdyke 1975 Gay USA 1977 Word Is Out 1977 Boys In the Band 1970 The Licorice Quartet Therese and Isabelle 1968 The Cats To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa 1969 Female Trouble 1974 Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Personal Best 1982 Making Love 1982 Mala Noche 1985 Desert Hearts 1985 The Times of Harvey Milk 1985 Parting Glances 1985 Poison 1991 Paris Is Burning 1990 Edward II 1991 The Hours and Time 1991 Swoon 1992 The Living End 1992 Basic Instinct 1992 Silence of the Lambs 1992 Go Fish 1994 Incredibly True Story of 2 Girls In Love 1995 All Over Me 1997 Watermelon Woman 1996 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Bound 1996 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Philadelphia 1994 Velvet Goldmine 1998 High Art 1998 The Opposite of Sex 1998 The Doom Generation 1995 A Family Affair 2003 All Over the Guy 2001 Better Than Chocolate 1999 Big Eden 2000 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss 1998 Chutney Popcorn 1999 But I'm A Cheerleader 1999 The Broken Hearts Club 2000 It's In the Water 1997 Kiss Me Guido 1997 Everything Relative 1996 Jeffrey 1995 Punks 2000 Treading Water 2001 Trick 1999 Nitrate Kisses 1992 Tongues Untied 1990 Common Threads 1989 Coming Out Under Fire 1994 Party Monster 2003 Silverlake Life 1993 Southern Comfort 2001 Family Fundamentals 2002 Hedwig & the Angry Inch 2001 Girls Will Be Girls 2003 By Hook or By Crook 2001 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Far From Heaven 2002 Happy Endings 2005 Trembling Before God 2001 Chocolate Babies 1997 Saving Face 2004 Tarnation 2004 Brokeback Mountain 2006 D.E.B.S. (PG) 2004 |
| Pedro Almodovar and the La Movida Cultural Phenomenon Following the Fall of Franco |
There are more Gay & Lesbian film festivals than any other kind of film festival. The reason for this is, of course, the resonance this work has within our community and within ourselves. - Stephen Gutwilling, OUTFEST (L.A. LGBT Film Festival) |
| There is a line in Nancy’s (Sinatra) song that goes “Chickens will dance with bears.” In the fine teen movie tradition, we checked political correctness at the door and played with stereotypes. But I tried to flip those archetypes to my advantage. In my world, the sissy can actually go on a date with the muscle man (and is allowed to get laid -- for once!), the big bulldyke is a cheerleader magnet and the gay nerd has a chance with the Abercrombie jock boy. I long for a world where gay folks of all shapes, colors and sexes mix and play together. A “new rainbow Milky Way . . . . - Todd Stephens, Director, Another Gay Movie |
| "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe in his role in the play "Equus" in London's West End |
KISS This is a link for a YouTube clip of men kissing in the movies listed below. Enjoy. The Sum of Us All Over the Guy Maurice Broadway Damage Borstal Boy I Think I Do Love, Valour, Compassion Urbania Trick Angels in America Big Eden Twilight of the Golds Gods & Monsters Valentino Deathtrap Testosterone Making Love In & Out Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss Something For Everyone Brokeback Mountain Jeffrey Cabaret Philadelphia Sunday, Bloody Sunday Love and Human Remains Torch Song Trilogy The Birdcage The Talented Mr. Ripley Nijinsky |
| Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein |
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