Will you please tell me about lesbian, b-f, ftm, etc movies you have enjoyed.

Queerasfck · 03-14-2011, 08:11 AM

My favorite is "The incredible True Adventures of Two Girls in Love." I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet. True, it's light weight fun most of the time.

Great writing, and I love that a true hard core butch relative Randy Dean lives with. Representin'

Pixie · 03-14-2011, 08:25 AM

Bound
Boys Don't Cry
Soldiers Girl
Tipping the Velvet
Mango Kiss

The_Lady_Snow · 03-14-2011, 08:29 AM

betenoire · 03-14-2011, 09:29 AM

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"Muriel's Wedding" is one of my favorite all-time movies. Especially delicious because I see it as "queer," although the plot is superficially "straight." Remember those years in the 90s when Australian film was so fabulous?

That movie was super great! Toni Collette is a super fun actress. (I love United States of Tara so much). I like her in Connie and Carla a LOT. I don't know how more people aren't obsessed with her.

JustJo · 03-14-2011, 11:19 AM

This might not be what you were looking for....but, for me, this one is what it's all about....

foxyshaman · 03-14-2011, 11:35 AM

Bound - fanning self -

Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly . I would watch Jennifer watching paint dry. Yum. Still one of my all time favorite movies.

There is a great documentary called "The Celluloid Closet", interesting to see how the gay/lesbain world has been portrayed in movies throughout movie history.

Gemme · 03-14-2011, 04:06 PM

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Oh, and I'm not going to lie. I genuinely LOVE this movie:

And the soundtrack is fucking awesome.

(No, it's not specifically a "lesbian movie". But it IS a really rad movie!)

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Originally Posted by betenoire

I hated this movie:

Oh god, I remember all of my friends were like "you haaaaave to see this movie! the fingernail clipping scene is soooooo hot." I just really -really- hated it.

But, you know. Clearly lots of people liked it - so there's a chance that you might.

I love, love, LOVED But I'm a Cheerleader. Go Fish was okay. Slow, but okay.

I haven't seen Boys Don't Cry. I've made active choices not to. It's just one of those movies that I know what happened and that's enough. I don't need to see it played out.

I got angry and sad with Southern Comfort. Such a stupid system we live in.

I absolutely LOVED If These Walls Could Talk 2 but couldn't find a trailer so there is a clip from each time frame:

maryam · 02-21-2013, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Queerasfck

My favorite is "The incredible True Adventures of Two Girls in Love." I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet. True, it's light weight fun most of the time.

Great writing, and I love that a true hard core butch relative Randy Dean lives with. Representin'

I think it's really important to plug the fluffy stuff too! Because so much of "our" theater is still so incredibly grim. Every movie mentioned above that I've seen (I haven't seen all of them, mind you) has got these incredibly moving and "important" themes, scenes and stuff. It almost seems like every LGBTQ movie has to have a deeper, meaningful part that Must Be There Or Else. I seriously think it's a hold over from the gay and lesbian pulp fiction era, where the only way to get your book published was if it didn't have a happy ending. I will wrack my brain and try to remember the source for that bit, but, it's been about 20 years since I took the class where we covered it. But basically, from what I remember, the reason that these novels didn't get a happy ending is because they couldn't actively promote an "an unhealthy" or "sick" relationship. If the lesbians fell in love, they had to lose their love in the end. Via murder, suicide or sanitarium or whatever. It's kind of ironic that pulp fiction is one of the places where the BF dynamic appears regularly.

So that's why I think we have so many heavily emotional lesbian movies and television. And it's really quite sad. I think movies like "Boys Don't Cry" and such are a good thing to have around, but I'd love to see a good, BF or lesbian RomCom someday. Bring on the fluff! Loving women doesn't make us tragic, and it's time that media started to understand that as well.

Sorry if I'm not making sense tonight. I'm pretty tired so I'm probably falling into bed soon and I'll come back in the morning and be all "dude, what was I trying to say here?"

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