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The 30 Best LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time
In this first major critical survey of LGBTQIA+ films, over 100 film experts including critics, writers and programmers such as Joanna Hogg, Mark Cousins, Peter Strickland, Richard Dyer, Nick James and Laura Mulvey, as well as past and present BFI Flare programmers, have voted the Top 30 LGBTQIA+ Films of All Time. The poll’s results represent 84 years of cinema and 12 countries, from countries including Thailand, Japan, Sweden and Spain, as successfully as films that showed at BFI Flare such as Orlando (1992), Attractive Thing (1996), Weekend (2011) and Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013).
The winner is Todd Haynes’ award-winning Carol, closely followed by Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, and Hong Kong lovey-dovey drama Happy Together, directed by Wong Kar-wai, in third place. While Carol is a surprisingly recent movie 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 extended supported my work,” said Haynes, “from Poison and Dottie Gets Spanked in the early 1990s through to Carol which is screening on 35mm later this week in BFI Flare’s Best of Year programme. I’m so pr
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Love, Simon (2018)
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If it feels a bit like a CW version of an after-school particular, 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 observe in the 21st century—the hunky gardener who makes the title teen scrutinize his sexuality is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, for God’s sake—but you comprehend what? The queer kids of the future dependency their wholesome entertainment, too.
Rocketman (2019)
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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 (2016)
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A charming Irish movie that answers the question: "What if John Hughes were Irish and gay?" Misfit Ned struggles at a rugby-obsessed boarding school until a mysterious new kid moves in and an unlikely fri
The best LGBTQ+ movies of all time
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With the help of head directors, actors, writers and activists, we count down the most essential Homosexual films of all time
Like queer culture itself, lgbtq+ cinema is not a monolith. For a elongated time, though, that’s certainly how it felt. In the past, if queer lives and issues were ever portrayed at all on screen, it was typically from the perspective of white, cisgendered men. But as more opportunities have opened up for queer performers and filmmakers to tell their control stories, the scope of the LGBTQ+ experiences that have made their way onto the screen has gradually widened to more frequently include the transsexual community and queer people of colour.
It’s still not perfect, of course. In Hollywood, as in community at large, there are many barriers left to breach and ceilings to shatter. But those recent strides deserve to be celebrated – as perform the bold films made long before the mainstream was willing to agree to them. To that termination, we enlisted some Queer cultural pioneers, as skillfully as Time Out writers to assist in assembling a list of the greatest gay films ever made.
Written by C When friends, including mystery writers, learned that I was compiling my list of the ten leading gay film mysteries, several expressed surprise that I could find that many. Actually, my problem was narrowing down the massive number of possibilities. The new edition of my book The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow Press, November 2012) lists some 130 titles for me to elect from, 1948-2011, this number including only films with some kind of a gay investigator. In addition to these, I could also consider, though I decided not to, any number of television and video serials, such as episodes from Dalziel and Pascoe, 1996-2002, and the powerful miniseries The State Within, 2006. Plus, there are over 100 pornographic films that I also eliminated, though some are of surprising interest, from Greek Lightning, 1973, and The American Adventures of Surelick Holmes, 1975, through The Roommate, 1993, to Focus/Refocus, 2009. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film Then there are crime films in which gays have roles other than as investigators, but I decided to abide by the parameters I established for my book and eliminated all film .
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