Queer Movies
M. and I have been having our own little queer movie fest lately. We did Big Eden, then Fucking Amal, then Chutney Popcorn.Chutney Popcorn is the ultimate queer TTC movie! It's all about lesbians trying to have a baby, and while it plays fast and loose with the nitpicky details of TTC (you don't stick sperm in a cooler and use it for later, and who really uses a turkey baster???) it totally captures the craziness and weird dynamics when you're using a village to make a baby.
Anyone else have queer movies they love? The festival continues and we'll always take suggestions!
posted by Sacha @ 5:34 AM
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24 Comments:
Big Eden is such a great movie.
You could go old school with "Incredibly true adventures..." or strung out gay with "high art," or...our recent favorite, "Imagine Me and You," with Piper Perabo (sp.) Except for the fact that her husband gets hurt (and he's really a wonderful character,) It's a perfect lesbo movie.
My all-time fave is When Night is Falling.
I love the funny ones, like "Better than chocolate" or "But I'm a cheerleader!" but I really love the lesbian movies europe offers, like "Aimee and Jaguar" a really great love story.
Aimee and Jaguar broke my heart. When Night is falling is truly a classic.
Try A Family Affair. I think it's funny. Fire is really good, too.
I LOVE "But I'm a cheerlearder"! And I've got a soft spot for "The Incredibly True Adventures blah blah blah." Laural Holloman will always be Randy Dean. Haven't heard of the ones you've just written about so I will definitely have to check them out.
My favourites include:
But I'm a Cheerleader - hilarious and hot (Clea DuVall & Natasha Lyonne.... *thud*)
Gia - hot, sad, beautiful
Saving Face - hilarious--really enjoyed it
And I like the classic Incredibly true adventures...
My favorites are both foreign.
Show Me Love is a Swedish lesbian teen / coming of age movie that is really sweet. Fire is a great film. Its by Deepa Mehta and it focuses on two women who fall in love in India while paralleling their story with classic Hindu mythology. Theaters were attacked in India and Pakistan when this was first released. As a side note her other two films in the triology (Water and Earth) are worth a watch as well.
i love better than chocolate and but i'm a cheerleader. what about bound or if these walls could talk 2?
someone once told me claire of the moon was a great movie, but sorry to say, i didn't particularly enjoy it.
i want to see imagine me & you, i heard it was great!
Ugh Claire of the Moon was soooo bad. Horrible acting. I think some just hold on to it because it was one of the early ones.
Fire and Show Me Love are great! I love them too.
I also enjoy If These Walls Could Talk 2 but found Ellen and Sharon's story too "fake" and annoying. I like the 2nd story. It was hot. Cuz it's all about the hotness in lesbian movies.
Fucking Amal is the Swedish title of Show Me Love.
What about a newer movie about a asian american lesbian who is hiding from her mother...I think Anne at Reflexive Verb saw it.
I think the one you're referring to is Saving Face, Sacha. I forgot to mention that one earlier. It was very good as someone here said earlier.
And I'm doubling the yuck of Claire of the Moon. That fantasy scene? Cripes! Now that Kristin and I have netflix, we just go through the gay/lesbian genre and pick ones that sound interesting. Boy, there are some stinkers there.
Oh, yeah, the movie that I love even if the acting is bad: Go Fish.
you guys are forgetting Fried Green Tomatoes!
Oh, I lurve Fried Green Tomatoes. Mary Stuart Masterson...
I've added Saving Face to Netflix! Yay!
Oh, I have to add that Fire just ripped me apart. And I loved her follow up, Earth (based on Cracking India, which I read and loved as well). Water was just released to good reviews as well.
I vote for When Night is Falling, Saving Face (the one you mentioned) and Go Fish will always have a sweet spot in my heart. For hot but unrealistic go for Bound, and for a little Victorian action, Tipping the Velvet or Fingersmith (both BBC versions of Sarah Waters' novels) will do nicely. :-)
Anne
I actually enjoyed Clara's Summer. I thought it was funny.
Unfortunately, most lesbian movies out there are horrible. I too didn't enjoy Watermelon Woman along with countless other flicks. And even ones I somewhat enjoy (i.e. A Family Affair) end up being corny and just not good enough for me to *really* enjoy it. I tend towards the darker films. :-P
I liked Lianna, but I'm a big John Sayles fan. He did a good job.
I HATE Bound. Ugh. It's a total MAN fantasy lesbian flick, written by men.
Oh, we saw Everything Relative and I couldn't believe how BAD it was. Just absolutely awful. And then there was this lesbian slasher film. I've blocked out the name. I think it was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but after it was done I felt like I had just spent 2 hours cleaning the toilets of a teen boys dormitory.
I'm going to add some of these suggestions to our netflix list!
Oooh, I agree with Calliope!!!
Fried Green Tomatoes is my all time FAVORITE - it reminds me of my southern roots :)
Okay agreed that Bound is for men, but didn't you think Gina Gershon made a hot dyke (albeit an ultra-styled smoozin at a lady's party little-bit-butchy-but-not-quite kinda dyke). I mean, come on!
Okay...just cause i'm in the mood for postin' here are my favourites:
Aime and Jaguar definitely! Hot and dramatic!...the second part of If These Walls can Talk 2 - that was HOT! DEBS is a great fun mainstream-y flick. What i like about it is it mascarades as a mainstream gay-made-for-straight-folks movie, but it is not skimpy or apologetic on the lesbo action...
Wow...listen to me...I seem to be all about the action...It's hard to find a truly good and intelligent story about lesbians...in fact the L Word is by far the most sophisticated contraption of this kind...and there ARE a lot of STINKERS...man! Just for the record, I hated Kissing Jessica Stein...
Chutney Popcorn is awesome! Rumor has it that director Nisha Ganatra and her gf are also TTC. :)
I agree with the recommendation of D.E.B.S., especially if you're in the mood for something silly. I don't even go for the girly girls, but that villain is HOT.
Delurking to add my .02. I love When Night is Falling, but I've never found it on DVD (read: Netflix). Saving Face is awesome. I wholeheartedly agree with the aforementioned badness of Clare of the Moon. I recently did what Trista did and looked at every single lesbian movie on Netflix. Nice to know there are so many out there...sad how awful some of them are.
one of my favorite movies is CAMP... don't necessarily know if i would call it a 'queer movie' but it's a great testimony for being who you are... i also love that everything-in-life-should-be-accompanied-by-a-musical-number mentality. can you tell i was obsessed with 'fame' as a kid? :)
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