Top 50 Favorite Gay Films

[WillParkinson]

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2010/9/favorite-gay-films?page=0%2C0

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I've seen a few of these, but most I hadn't even heard of. Looks like someone has to do some work to keep his Gay Club card.

I've been looking at the trailers of some of the movies. I had never heard of Shortbus, but found an uncensored trailer. http://www.spike.com/video/shortbus-uncensored/2768166

(It's kind of sexually graphic so definitely not safe for work)

[Sweet Charming Dem]

1. Shortbus is a good, but very graphic movie

[teenagebambam]

2. Where's Mommie Dearest?

The Women? Auntie Mame?

Honestly, you kids and your lists these days.....

[dickthegrouch]

3. "Together, Alone" was one of my all-time favorites

I can't believe it's not on the list.

[joeybee12]

4. Let me just say, "Yech!"

Priscilla should be higher, MILK only has Sean penn's performance going for it...and where is Girls will be Girls????????

[terrya]

5. Almost all of these are American.

That's great and all, but that list doesn't include some classic foreign films like "Taxi Zum Klo".

When it first came out, I liked "The Broken Hearts Club". But I don't know...it just seemed like a bunch of straight actors playing gay...and not too believably, imo. I didn't buy Dean Cain as a gay guy, for instance.

And I'm glad we can FINALLY see "I Love You, Phillip Morris". I've been looking forward to seeing it for a long time.

[joeybee12]

6. Broken Hearts Club was lame...as were a lot on this list...La Cage should be here instead

of Birdcage...Birdcage was lame, lame, lame.

[donheld]

10. -1

The Birdcage Rocked!

[joeybee12]

12. did you see La Cage?

Birdcage is simply a lesser version in English...no class, no style, typical formulaic crap from hollywood.

[donheld]

13. I guess we'll just have to disagree

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. The History Boys is a better film than any of the 50, imo.

Better than any of the 50 that I've *seen*, at any rate... which would be about thirty, I reckon. Might be a little too edgy and cerebral for general consumption.

Boys in the Band #37?!? Who's voting on these things?

And where's Wilde?

[JuniperLea]

8. The Naked Civil Servant...

Quentin Crisp! What an amazing man!

[theHandpuppet]

9. When I read your subject line...

I expected an inclusive list of gay films. Didn't know it was a male-only list. Oh well.

[Sapphocrat]

11. Yeah, us too...

...before I realized it was afterelton.com.

So, let's start one. Off the top of my head, I'll go with...

But I'm a Cheerleader: My #1. Hilarious, devastating indictment of "ex-gay" programs, and who doesn't want to see Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall doing It together?

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Oddball girl is gay, gay, gay -- and anyone who hasn't seen this hasn't seen a "lesbian movie," or any movie that explores, ever so painfully, the experience of being "different."

Desert Hearts: Slow, sexy, romantic, erotic, nostalgic; evokes a Reno I haven't seen in 40 years. What more could you want, except a Patsy Cline soundtrack? Oh, wait -- it has that.

Costa Brava: What, no one else has seen this? You should! Slightly older tourguide, big in the hips, gets jiggy with young, slim baby-dyke. (Spain, 1995)

D.E.B.S.

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Henry and June

The Color Purple: not a lesbian film, per se, but the kiss between Whoopi and "Shug" says volumes.

Girl, Interrupted: Not a lesbian film... but then again, it really is.

Serving in Silence: The Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer Story: More than fitting right now, what with DADT -- and Glenn Close... well, what more do you want?

French Twist: French movie from 1980-something, totally unapologetic in its portrayals of a real, natural butch and a real, natural femme. In short, butch truck driver seduces femme, who is married to a man... hilarity (and hotness) ensues.


Love/hate picks -- but are must-sees for one reason or another:

The Children's Hour: Typical All-Lesbians-Must-Pay-By-Death film. Great, heart-wrenching performances by Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn.

These Three: Much earlier, watered-down version of The Children's Hour; should be watched after seeing The Choldren's Hour. Will make you want to murder Bonita Granville. 'Cept, you know, she's, like, already dead.

The Fox: God-smites-lesbian film. Heartbreaking. (And -- did you know? -- Sandy Dennis really was a lesbian.)

Go Fish: No, actually, I just hate this, because it's boring.

Gia: You want to kill Gia -- but you won't have to. (Her girlfriend is totally hot, in a Natasha Richardson kind of way.)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Bisex: "You one-band broads are a draaaag!"

Fried Green Tomatoes: Gay-washed, which pisses me off.

Monster: Fucked-up lesbian with maybe not-so-lesbian, but dynamite performances.

The Hunger: A two-hour-long Chanel commercial with one Bob Guccione-styled "lesbian" scene -- but who doesn't want to see Deneuve and Sarandon together?

Julia: What, doesn't anyone get the lesbionic tension between Julia and Lillian? Why do you think Lillian slapped the shit out of Julia (or was it the other way around)?

Boys on the Side: OK, so Whoopi is a neutered lesbian -- but an unapologetic one!


Hate, hate, hate, and will never watch again:

Kissing Jessica Stein: Makes it look like bisexuals just drift from one sex to the other as the wind takes them.

Personal Best: Ditto.


Not lesbian at all, but must-see anyway:

Boys Don't Cry: 'Cause I love me my transfolk, big-time, and 'cause the sex scene with Chloe Sevigny is seriously hawwwt, even if I think Brandon was a creep of a human being.

Silkwood: How ironic it is now, seeing Cher as a lesbian victim of unrequited love, and knowing that not long after, she totally lost her shit when her own daughter came out as a lesbian -- and now, is really honest about being a transman.

Heavenly Creatures: Who the fuck knows what to make of this -- although, I figure the girls made up their fantasy world as a substitute in order to avoid confronting their feelings about one another. Other than that, this is a fantastic performance by every lesbian's secret crush, a very young Kate Winslet.


Meh, barely worth it, but some might find value:

Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love: Cute, that's all.


More:
Better Than Chocolate
Bound
Tipping the Velvet
Fire
Aimee and Jaguar
Sister, My Sister

[closeupready]

14. Ah yes, "French Twist", a/k/a "Gazon Maudit".

I really enjoyed that one. :)

Did you see Vicky Barcelona, and what did you think of that?