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The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time
In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as skillfully as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results depict 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as well as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (), Beautiful Thing (), Weekend () and Blue Is the Warmest Colour ().
The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong romantic drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent motion picture to top the poll, it’s a feature that has moved, delighted and enthralled audiences, and looks set to be a modern classic.
“The festival has drawn-out supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early s through to Carol which is screen
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Love, Simon ()
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school extraordinary , that's no mistake: Teen-tv super-producer Greg Berlanti makes his feature-film directorial debut here. It's as chaste a love story as you're likely to spot in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen ask his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you comprehend what? The queer kids of the future require their wholesome entertainment, too.
Rocketman ()
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A gay fantasia on Elton themes. An Elton John biopic was never going to be understated, but this glittering jukebox musical goes way over the top and then keeps going. It might be an overcorrection from the straight-washing of the previous year's Bohemian Rhapsody, but when it's this much fun, it's best not to overthink it.
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Handsome Devil ()
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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the aid of leading directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential LGBTQ+ films of all time
Like queer society itself, queer cinema is not a monolith. For a drawn-out time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if gay lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of pale, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their own stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently comprise the trans community and lgbtq+ people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in society at huge, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as do the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to accept them. To that end, we enlisted some LGBTQ+ cultural pioneers, as well as Time O "Fuck The World." The motto of The Living End's protagonists might stand as a slogan for the whole of filmmaker Greg Araki's career. A key shitkicker in the early '90s Modern Queer Cinema movement, Araki took a baseball bat to hetero-normative culture and explored gay life on the margins during Bush's administration in films by turns funny, frank and anguished. The Living End is his best picture, a so-called 'gay Thelma & Louise', as motion picture critic Jon (Craig Gilmore) and drifter Luke (Mike Dytri), both diagnosed as HIV-positive ("the Neo-Nazi Republican final solution," says Jon about AIDS), kill a homophobic cop and depart on the lam, offing any bigot who remain in their way. Rather than pity themselves, these characters unleash their nihilism on the world, tempered by a kind of freewheeling anarchy and enhanced by Araki's eye-catching images and jump cuts. As the film's dedication puts it, it's a punch in the gut to "a Big White Property full of Republic
The 50 Best LGBTQ+ Movies
50) The Living End ()